God bless Canada and this small firm called Replacement Laptop Keys - that I found by just googling around desperate to find a solution. Ten days ago my X key on my MacbookPro just went off it's plastic case. I was silly enough to mess with glues and stuff (yes I know silly me). The only thing I managed was to break …

Using Ant 1.8 (eventually they have changed the implementation from 1.7 and onwards) in case you use the Input task to read multiple things from the system console and load them into properties or do what ever you like - you will end up with a Stream is closed IOexception the second time you will invoke an Input …

Here we go again. In the first part we have gone through 3 basic tools 1) Code Repository 2) Issue Tracker 3) Wiki (Part 1). In the second part we _ve listed services like a build server, ideas tools and practices around testing and after testing practices like code coverage . Let's move on! Code quality: (Practices …

_This part (4) is contributed by a fellow reader of this blog and experienced professional, Dimitri Stergiou ( linkedin, twitter, blog). Dimitris is working as a Information Security Manager and through this post is eager to highlight the importance of designing and building a secure software solution.Security must …

We will continue to list and elaborate on simple steps towards shaping up a proper development environment. In the first part we have gone through 3 basic tools 1) Code Repository 2) Issue Tracker 3) Wiki (Part 1). Let's move on. Build Server (Continuous Integration): One of the simplest and accurate descriptions on …

I truly believe that it's part of our job, some soft of duty, to evangelize the correct way of working within the company / department we work for. Apart from doing our regular tasks analysis, design and implementation we must work efficiently under certain practices and using tools that have been there for years and …

There are some things that work well with Apple's mobile.me service like the Calendar, the Address book syncing all over your macs and iDevices, the email (when accessed through their client software). There are also many other things that mobile.me sucks and yes -despite the fact I am a loyal Apple customer and fan - …

As they say, better late than never. I have to admit that for years now I have been typing in the terminal long ant task/target names, when I just wanted to execute or built something. At some point when I had to deal with long names such as jbpm.deploy.proc.dbclean etc I ended up creating aliases (a nice feature of …

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Wow this is it, the peak of the conference has just passed. Another full day is completed full of interesting talks. Tomorrow I will be able to attend only the first maybe the second session and then I will have to head for the Brussels airport and Athens. I will be writing a final post during the flight I guess. So …