Supercharging asdf with FZF
Update (August 12, 2022): Just noticed this commit that changes the output format for the current version in asdf list — updated accordingly. Update (August 11, 2022): I’ve added more intelligent version sorting and...
Category: Java
Switch Among Java Versions: FZF and SDKMAN!
The bang in the subject belongs to SDKMAN!, not me. It’s a tool for managing versions of various Java-world tools. Think nvm for Java, Maven, Groovy, et al. I’ve been back in Java world...
Making “java -v”, “java –version”, and “java version” Work
To get the version of most CLI tools, you type the tool’s command name followed by one of these: -v –version Some CLI tools, like Git, support a “version” subcommand, so you type the tool’s...
Validation Errors in Eclipse and Alpha-Bits
Cartoons owned Saturday mornings, back when I was young enough to care. The commercials that wedged their way in and between The RoadRunner and The Justice League seemed to hawk either toys or breakfast...
Eclipse: Insufficient access privileges to apply this update.
I use Eclipse for all my Java development (and Mac OS X for all my development). Today, a bug with portlet deployment to Liferay required me to update my Eclipse installation. For awhile, I’d...
Debugging Through Google is Rotting My Brain
A couple of weeks ago I built a National Provider Identifier (NPI) lookup app as a proof of concept for the Vaadin portlet stuff we’re doing. For the search portion, it used a publicly-available, for-pay...
Dr. StrangeUnix Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Mac
Dr. StrangeUnix Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Mac: But what the fact that “It’s just UNIX now” got us was the ability to create an X11 application that would...
Homework by Challenge
Developers love challenges, whether they be programming puzzles, word puzzles, or any other conundrum that flexes their minds and proves how smart they are — whether to others or simply to themselves. The quickest...
10 Must-Install Mac Applications
I’m a software developer, so bear in mind that my Mac is for working and coding (mostly Objective-C, Java, and Ruby). You won’t find apps for ripping DVDs, viewing videos, or playing Canasta. These...
Hanging Out with Old Friends: SWT and JFace
I’ve been working on a new project at work that deals with files in X12 format: delimited files that generally use asterisks for field delimiters and tildes for line delimiters. Here’s an example fragment:...