http://naleid.com/blog Groovy, Grails and OS X tips and tricks Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:24:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just ran across Ubiquity over on on waxy. It's an alpha Firefox plugin that's attempting to be a command line for the internet. It reminds me a little of yubnub, but quite a bit more powerful as it's available on every page and is context sensitive. Essentially, it has ... http://naleid.com/blog/2008/08/26/ubiquity-interesting-looking-command-line-for-firefox/ I ran into a couple of issues trying to clone a mercurial repository over ssh tonight. I'm documenting the solutions here in case they're useful for anyone else (or me when I forget what I did in 6 months :). The first issue was that I'm running ssh on a ... http://naleid.com/blog/2008/07/29/pitfalls-with-mercurial-zsh-and-ssh/ I gave a presentation at work today on Distributed Version Control Systems and Mercurial. We're currently using Subversion, and I'm nudging my co-workers into getting interested in the benefits of distributed version control over a centralized system. The presentation starts with the pros and cons of distributed systems and gives ... http://naleid.com/blog/2008/06/03/distributed-source-control-with-mercurial-presentation/ Over on the RailsEnvy blog (the guys who made the "Rails vs. X commercials" last year), there's an article that highlights some of the nice syntactic sugar that Groovy has that's currently not available in Ruby. I actually came to Groovy/Grails after working with Ruby/Rails for about a year. Both ... http://naleid.com/blog/2008/05/27/syntactic-sugar-in-groovy-and-ruby/ Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions!" Now they have two problems. -- Jaime Zawinski There is a common and well-earned aversion in the Java world to regular expressions. Prior to Java 1.4, regular expressions weren't even part of the core language. Post ... http://naleid.com/blog/2008/05/19/dont-fear-the-regexp/ As my coworkers know, I'm a keyboard shortcut junkie. It's a problem (and I need help), but I'd rather give you a taste of what I've been smoking and drag you down with me :). Why only 3? Because people don't learn a couple of pages of keystroke combinations ... http://naleid.com/blog/2008/05/09/top-3-shortcuts-for-the-terminal/ If you've ever wondered what methods a groovy class has available for you to call, all you need to do is ask the metaClass: "foo".metaClass.methods*.name Result: ["equals", "getClass", "hashCode", "notify", "notifyAll", "toString", "wait", "wait", "wait", "charAt", "codePointAt", "codePointBefore", "codePointCount", "compareTo", "compareTo", "compareToIgnoreCase", "concat", "contains", "contentEquals", "contentEquals", "copyValueOf", "copyValueOf", "endsWith", "equals", "equalsIgnoreCase", ... http://naleid.com/blog/2008/05/07/what-methods-does-my-groovygrails-class-have/ There's a blog post by one of the subversion developers talking about the future of subversion in a DVCS world. I agree with parts of the post (and many of the comments) that subversion will continue to be around for a long time, but that more and more developers will start ... http://naleid.com/blog/2008/05/01/using-mercurial-as-a-super-client-for-subversion/ There's a tip over on lifehacker that shows how to open a new window for an application that has no windows currently open by cmd-tabbing to it and then holding down the option key before releasing command. This didn't seem like that great of a tip to me at first, because ... http://naleid.com/blog/2008/04/26/unminimize-windows-on-os-x/ I just finished the conversion over from a wordpress.com hosted blog to a wordpress blog that I'm running on a slicehost slice. I think that it's good to maintain your own linux server and get your hands dirty from time in Apache rewrite rules and php code. The biggest reason for the ... http://naleid.com/blog/2008/04/23/converting-wordpress-blog-from-wordpresscom-to-slicehost-slice/