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It seems that man pages on OSX are misaligned with the commands sometime.
Example:
From
$ man ps
I read:

-e Identical to -A.

But look how identical they are:

luigi@noname:~$ ps -e
PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND
12332 s000 S+ [...]

Testing components that use JNDI to get DataSources and other resources can be annoying, because (hopefully) you don't want to run your unit tests inside the application server. JNDI is a good example of how the ServiceLocator makes testing harder.
When you can't turn around the JNDI to get your resources and inject them into your [...]

Today I used commons-net to verify when an IP address is in a subnet specified in CIDR notation. So, I got a bug.
This code:
SubnetUtils utils = new SubnetUtils("77.24.0.0/16");
System.out.println("lower address: " + utils.getInfo().getLowAddress());
System.out.println("higher address: " + utils.getInfo().getHighAddress());
System.out.println("77.23.255.254 is in range? :" + utils.getInfo().isInRange( "77.23.255.254" ));

gives this output:

lower address: 77.24.0.1
higher address: 77.24.255.254
77.23.255.254 is in range? :true

Obviously the [...]

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Recently at Devoxx I've heard that type inference will be available on Java7 to shorten collections instantiations. (If I remember correctly, from Josh Bloch's workshop).
I catched the idea, and started using Type Inference and Varargs to shorten my code.
Here's an example:
static <K, V> Map<K, V> newHashMap() {
return new HashMap<K, V>();
}

static <T> [...]

Two Saturdays ago, I bought the Wireless Apple Mightymouse. Very nice looking, but I find it much harder to use than the MacBook's touchpad. Basically the problem is the acceleration, there's no way to set it up without external utility: usboverdrive, steermouse, about $20 each. While you can adjust mouse acceleration in any decent OS, [...]

With ant it's possible to create macros and use them like standard ant tasks.
For instance, in a previous project I was using a proprietary build tool that needed to be launched at the command line. So I created an ant script that was launching that tool from eclipse, and to reuse the invocation logic I [...]