cum grano salis — nobody likes a clever bastard

I whipped up this spec file because I hate working with tarballs. It’s not perfect, but it gets the job done. You’ll need to create mozilla-firefox4.desktop from scratch or mod the one from Firefox 3.

I moved a few client repositories over to Git from Subversion over the weekend and I started using EGit. It works pretty well, other than that it’s missing the Team Synchronize functionality, which is sorely missed. The most you get is a single file diff. The only thing you have to watch out for is [...]

I have finally had some time to sit down and figure out why submitted form data was disappearing when there were form validation errors. I tracked it down to facelets.BUILD_BEFORE_RESTORE, yet another one of Facelets completely undocumented features.
You may be wondering why I had it enabled in the first place, since I didn’t read the [...]

Being TopLink’s mutant flipper baby, it’s no surprise that EclipseLink’s (2.0.0) support of MySQL is substandard. If you have been using the two of them together, you may have noticed that LOBs don’t really work quite right. Some of the blame is probably for MySQL, with its multiple length-specific LOB column types, but it at [...]

Possibly a testament to why people hate the JCP, that style of bureaucracy, and why almost everything that isn’t touched by it actually gets things done, I ran into what I would consider a blocker when it was requested that I have the currency symbol and percent signs optional for form inputs using f:convertNumber and [...]