Marcos Placona on September 2nd, 2009

Java on Centos
(Photo: tutchiio)
I’m only writing this blog post because I usually try to keep my VPS
up to date, and usually one of the things I have to do to accomplish
such thing is updating the Java version.

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Marcos Placona on August 24th, 2009

Firefox vs. IE
(Photo: Kay Kim)
I just came across a very interesting bug on my website. I’ve made a post on twitter today asking the local CSS gurus if they knew of any way to fix this:

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Marcos Placona on August 21st, 2009

I’ve decided to get back at jQuery draggable and droppable to a personal project I’ve been working on. In the past, I’ve demonstrated how to do basic drag and drop, but this time I needed something a little bit more elaborated.
I won’t spoil my personal project by showing what it id before it
gets done, but I’ll show here an example of what I wanted to accomplish
which will use pretty much the same functionality, but in other
application.
The idea is:

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Marcos Placona on August 7th, 2009

Recursion
At work we’ve been doing some deploy optimization, and the need of
automatically deleting (recursively) specific folders came up.
We use MXUnit to Unit Test
our applications, and store all of our tests based on what they’re
related (inside _test folders). So basically we end up having lots of
folders in our file structure that are not supposed to go into
production for security reasons.
We use SVN for development, but don’t use it on production for
security reasons as well, so we always end up with a deploy package
(SVN export) containing all of the files necessary for a specific
release.
At the moment this package is generated, we still have our test cases in it, and it would be really painful to delete all the “_test” folders

one by one if the release is too big.
We easily end up with something like:

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Marcos Placona on August 5th, 2009

I’ve used this DTD generator tool a long time ago, but today I had to use it again, so I thought I should put an entry on my blog about it and keep it archived for future reference.

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