Gradle is a great build tool with a large community for developing JVM-based applications, but one area that it seems to be lacking strong support is in front-end tooling. The Node.js community’s strength is front-end tooling with a number of … Continued
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Overriding Backbone.js sync to allow Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) withCredentials
So I’m apparently starting a series of Backbone.js posts wherein I’m documenting all the BackboneJS/JavaScript stuff I’m figuring out that I couldn’t find easily in the googles. Today’s installment is how to globally override Backbone’s sync method to allow Cross … Continued
Fixing Grails Tests That Pass in Isolation but Fail When Run as a Suite
If you’ve got a test that passes when run by itself but fails when run with the rest of the tests in your test suite, you’ve almost definitely got a test pollution problem. Test pollution happens when the results of … Continued
big – A Quick Shell/AppleScript/LaunchBar Script to Shout Results
I threw together a quick shell script, called big that leverages AppleScript and LaunchBar to display results in a huge font. Often, when I’m demoing something, the results of what I’m doing don’t really jump out at my audience. If … Continued
Vim Movement Shortcuts Wallpaper
I’ve recently moved back to vim (actually MacVim) after a 5 year hiatus using TextMate. A big part of that move was inspired by Steve Losh’s recent post Coming Home to Vim which has a number of really great tips. … Continued