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Integrating Google tasks with your ubuntu desktop

While I was looking for a desktop integration for google chrome i found the following to articles:

http://www.brighthub.com/computing/linux/articles/36842.aspx which describes how to use alltray and prism to integrate google tasks with you gnome panel.

and

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-ways-to-access-your-google-tasks/ which describe how to use chrome’s feature to create a desktop shortcut to a web-application.

if you combine them both u can use [...]

Loading environment specific spring configurations.

At my work we try to deploy locally on tomcat or glassfish and in production (and the other test environments) on webspere. For this we often need to overwrite a spring bean to implement it differently. For example we use jdni to loopup the datasource in the websphere environments, but we prefer to use a [...]

Mirroring eclipse update sites

When you have resticted internet access at work, dealing with eclipse plugins can be a pain.
A lot of plugins don’t make local-update archives anymore, so you have to look for other solutions. I had a look at epmt(http://code.google.com/p/epmt/) which is a nice, but not very stable application to mirror eclipse update sites. Unfortunately it [...]

Generated source annotation

In my last 2 projects i generated some source code with jaxb. I used the maven plugin for jaxb and the source code was generated under src/main/generated-sources. This all worked quite well till i started to use some quality assurence plugins within maven. To exclude the generated sources i had to do quite some [...]

JSF: MultipleField Validations

At work we decided that we wanted all our validations on a page to happen within the validation phase of JSF.

On trying this we got a lot of trouble from fields that had such a relation to other fields that you could only validate them as a whole.

The problem here is that in JSF [...]