GeekUp Hebden Bridge

Posted on November 25, 2009

It’s cold, wet and pretty nasty outside, but tonight is our first GeekUp in Hole in’t Wall in Hedben Bridge @7:00. If you’re local and a geek about anything, come down.

Useful commit messages

Posted on November 20, 2009

I realised that I’m not very good at this when I looked at my last commit for this theme. The message was “added a few things” a message I find myself using when I have nothing else to say, or if I’ve done too much work and either can’t remember all of what I did or be bothered writing it all out.

It’s bad form though, and I’m trying to learn my way into using git properly to make it happen less. Basically I’m still trying to find the right place between a commit for a unit of work and my previous more traditional view that all commits must compile and pass tests. At the same time I’m trying to reconcile that with a Kanban board way of organising what to do.

How does everyone else commit? When, how often and what ‘rules’ do you apply?

Sproozi blog and pre-beta signup

Posted on November 19, 2009

Sproozi is getting closer to actually doing something that’s worth showing off. I’ve setup a blog for it at blog.sproozi.com where I’ll post development updates. I’ve also added beta pre-registration to the Sproozi site. We’re going to need testers as soon as it launches, so if you’d like to help out let me know over there.

A meetup for Geeks in Hebden Bridge

Posted on November 11, 2009

When: Wednesday November 25th @ 7:00pm
Where: Hole in’t Wall, Hebden Bridge (map)

What:

We’re holding a GeekUp style meet in Hebden Bridge, open to anyone who is a geeky about anything.

There is no formal agenda or presentations planned, we’ll see how it goes, hope it works and if it does we can to turn it into a regular event.

Most established Geek Ups are primarily aimed at techie geeks – We’d like to see ours better represent the area and to be something unique. So we’re throwing the door open to all geeks, if you’re obsessive about something (tech, beer, music, films, books, knitting…), come along.

Read more about Geek Ups in general at Geek Up. Questions, comments etc direct them at me here, on twitter @andrewmccall or email.

Downloading maven dependency source jars

Posted on November 3, 2009

I’ve been working on a new project that I’m planning to open source real soon – stay tuned.

When I’m implementing interfaces in a dependent package using Idea/Maven I want to tick the “copy javadoc” button to at least have the documentation from the intereface. The issue of course is that I don’t have the sources.

Run the following command:

mvn dependency:sources

Maven will download any sources it can find for in remote repositories for your dependencies and Idea finds them like magic. So now not only can you copy javadoc, you can also click the line number in the stack trace and get something meaningful – not “compiled code”.