Git: Create versions using the ‘tag’ command
You can use the ‘tag’ command in Git to create human readable revisions of your software. Examples: Create a version / named revision git tag -a 1.0 -m “Version 1.0″ Remove a tag git tag -d 1.0 If you...
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DZone has published a new cheat sheet about Git – get it while it’s hot! http://refcardz.dzone.com/refcardz/getting-started-git?oid=hom21049 Note: You will have to register and login to download the...
View ArticleFix JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA on a Mac after a failed plugin update
If it ever happens to you that the IDEA IDE won’t start after updating (installing) one or more plugins, the steps below may help you to solve the problem. Clean the following folders:...
View ArticleQuick and cool resources for learning about node.js and JavaScript
There’s a lot of hype about node.js and JavaScript programming in general at the moment. Maybe JavaScript after all is the missing replacement for a ‘new’ multi-purpose desktop/gui development...
View ArticleSublime Text Editor
After reading a (German) blog post about the Sublime Text editor I decided to do another trial period with this text editor. A few people recommended Sublime Text before, but I always found that the UI...
View ArticleFix ‘Access denied’ error when using MySQL and Mac OS X
This post describes how to fix a problem with MySQL (5.5.25a) on Mac OS X (Lion) that has happened to me more than once on my development machine and also on the machine of a co-worker, so it doesn’t...
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IDEA quick tip: Deploy external Tomcat applications
As we all know, a modern JVM developer uses IntelliJ IDEA for development and I hope that you don’t have to use the other one (forgot the name…). Recently I had to test some integration stuff between...
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IDEA quick tip: Use external Tomcat configuration
This is a another quick tip for the JetBrains IDEA IDE. Most of the time, IDEA handles deploying and executing your web application within the configured Tomcat instance for you. Therefore, it...
View ArticleNifty Little Web Tools
Time to point to some little tools available for free on the web that also might be of interest for you. I also would be interested in other small and useful (web-)tools my readers might know. Just add...
View ArticleParse HTML with Java and the jsoup Library
Sometimes it can happen that one of your applications has to embed HTML content, but as we all know, it can be dangerous to just display HTML without escaping it before. On the other hand, you might...
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