Often I write my applications with Guice. I also often want to make those applications configurable externally. For example I might inject username and password for that app to talk...
POTD: cucumber annotation indexer
Cucumber for Java requires that you specify the packages in which your step definitions exist. At runtime, cucumber uses some hack to try to list all the classes in this...
LEGO Earth project
I play LEGO a lot with my daughter, and I’ve been obsessed with making spheres. My last sphere building attempt was building a mini LEGO Earth in 2009. While I...
Support API freedom
I was reading this article from Steve and Sacha about the API copyrightability, and found myself in a violent agreement. If you haven’t read it, I highly recommend it.
Jenkins commit activities in 2012
Stephen is having fun with Git and R, and I saw another person creating a similar comparison (although I’m not sure where the credit should go on that one.)
JavaFX needs to be a new edition of Java
Lately, there has been a number of security vulnerabilities reported in Java. The latest one is reported just after a few days of JavaSE 7u11, which by itself a response...
On the road for the rest of the month
I’m really excited to kick off my 2013 with a tour around the world for Jenkins.
The other side of forking and pull requests
Charles Nutter of JRuby fame had this tweet yesterday:
POTD: StopForumSpam API for Java
There’s an on-going spam problem in Jenkins wiki. We have capture, but either that was broken, or more likely, spamming is done manually.
In São Paulo from this weekend
I’ll be flying to Sao Paulo this week to attend Jenkins meet-up (Saturday) and JavaOne Latin America (next Tuesday and onward).