Archive for February, 2012
Ahh, the joys of JIRA. It’s hard to argue that JIRA is not the best bug management system out there when you see that they support a host of external access protocols. SOAP is (understandably) the preferred method of access and there is a nice example of its use on the Atlassian wiki. I wanted [...]
Ever since I started using github for hosting I have started to dislike SVN. Don’t get me wrong, its still very useful and easy to understand but as a developer I don’t want something that is easy to understand (infact I won’t be able to use such a tool) but I want something that works [...]
Parsing HTML documents is never easy. Some languages have better support for such tasks than others. I thought Groovy wasn’t one of them but I was wrong. I had to parse a HTML document that wasn’t always well-formed and that made the task harder. Dennis’ post was very useful when I was getting started. The [...]
I’ve started expermenting with griffon again and I learnt a cool new trick today. Pre-0.9.2 all controller actions were called within the UI thread. This meant that if you needed to do anything long-running you’d need to move it to a separate thread or your application would become unresponsive (atleast in the eyes of the [...]