Monthly Archives: November 2007

CPD with maven2 and PMD

Posted on November 14, 2007 by peter

Detecting copy/pasted code is a useful technique to find potential buggy code. Duplicated code often results in bugs being fixed in only one version of the copied code. PMD is a great sourcecode analysis tool which integrates nicely with maven … Continue reading →

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multiproject maven2: getting the site to work

Posted on November 14, 2007 by peter

When generating a project site for a multiproject setup as described in my previous post many people run into the same problem. The links to the different modules don’t work when you use the ‘site:site’ target. A couple of solutions … Continue reading →

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Getting started with multiproject maven2

Posted on November 13, 2007 by peter

I’m helping a group of students to split up their codebase into a couple of manageable project using maven2 as the build tool. Their existing project is a layered Spring MVC web application. The following layers are present: data model … Continue reading →

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Grails Video Plugin (flv transcoding & asset management)

Posted on November 13, 2007 by peter

During the years I’ve been involved in digital media related projects quite a bit. With the current dominance of flash video stuff has become a bit more straightforward; you don’t have to support multiple proprietary formats in parallel anymore. I … Continue reading →

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Ballooning away

Posted on November 5, 2007 by peter

During the weekend I attended a super cool company event: we went flying in a hot air balloon. I really enjoyed the experience! We went up in Utrecht (near Ikea) and landed about 35km (measured in a straight line) in … Continue reading →

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Installing Leopard

Posted on November 2, 2007 by peter

No, don’t worry… it’s not me installing Leopard on my MacBook. My wife managed to install Leopard without much help. Everything went smooth and Leopard runs really well. First impressions are (although it lacks Java 6) quite good; I really … Continue reading →

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