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Inspect Your Webapp in a Live Environment Interactively with GroovyConsole
Have you ever needed to check the state of your webapp’s objects/Session/.. to find out why the hell something doesn’t work or have you had to learn a weird 3rd party API that is only available on the...
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Note to Self: Running GroovyConsole with a Maven Project’s Classpath
It’s pretty useful to have the ability to eperiment interactively with some API using the (desktop) Groovy Console. If the API is in a Maven project, just add dependency on Groovy to your pom.xml: And...
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Only a Masochist Would Write Unit Tests in Java. Be Smarter, Use Groovy (or...
I like writing unit tests but Java doesn’t make it particularly easy. Especially if you need to create objects and object trees, transform objects for checking them etc. I miss a lot a conscise,...
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Most interesting links of October ’12
Recommended Readings David Veksler: Some lesser-known truths about programming – things newcomers into the field of IT don’t know and don’t expect, true and an interesting read. Not backed by good data...
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Tools for Editor – Browser Integration for Interactive JS/HTML Development
Chrome Development Tools and similar ones are great for interactive, exploratory coding of JavaScript, HTML, and CSS – but the changes aren’t persistent and the tools haven’t the power of a...
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A Usable Node.js REPL for Emacs
Being used to the excellent REPL in Clojure(Script), I was surprised to find out that Node.js REPL is somewhat weak and that its support in Emacs is not actively maintained. I anyway managed to get a...
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OS X: Using scutils to discover whether/what a web proxy is in use
When looking for ways to discover whether a proxy is being used by OS X, you will be typically pointed to networksetup -getwebproxy However that does not always work – for example when using “Auto...
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Re-posted from Telia’s tech blog. What’s the deal with ClojureScript? How can you justify picking such a “niche” language? I have recently experienced a “wow” session, demonstrating the productivity...
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