Archive for November, 2007
Detecting copy/pasted code is a useful technique to find potential buggy code. Duplicated code often results in bugs being fixed in only one version of the copied code. PMD is a great sourcecode analysis tool which integrates nicely with maven and has CPD (copy/paste detection) capabilities.
To configure with default settings and CPD support add [...]
multiproject maven2: getting the site to work
0 Comments Published by peter November 14th, 2007 in java, maven.When generating a project site for a multiproject setup as described in my previous post many people run into the same problem. The links to the different modules don't work when you use the 'site:site' target. A couple of solutions exist which 'solve' this 'problem' (technically it is a feature).
The actually links are configure [...]
Getting started with multiproject maven2
2 Comments Published by peter November 13th, 2007 in java, maven.I'm helping a group of students to split up their codebase into a couple of manageable project using maven2 as the build tool. Their existing project is a layered Spring MVC web application. The following layers are present:
data model
dao / integration
services
web application 1
Since dependencies where not managed yet the codebase managed to drift into containing [...]
Grails Video Plugin (flv transcoding & asset management)
0 Comments Published by peter November 13th, 2007 in flash, grails, groovy, video.During the years I've been involved in digital media related projects quite a bit. With the current dominance of flash video stuff has become a bit more straightforward; you don't have to support multiple proprietary formats in parallel anymore.
I met and read about quite a lot of people building their own mini-youtube on top of [...]
During the weekend I attended a super cool company event: we went flying in a hot air balloon. I really enjoyed the experience!
We went up in Utrecht (near Ikea) and landed about 35km (measured in a straight line) in south east direction. During the flight I took about 160 pictures, I selected a couple of [...]
No, don't worry... it's not me installing Leopard on my MacBook.
My wife managed to install Leopard without much help. Everything went smooth and Leopard runs really well. First impressions are (although it lacks Java 6) quite good; I really like spaces.
One of my colleagues was however less lucky. He ended up having to do the [...]
