The vast majority of the posts in this blog are about software development. A good part of most of my posts have some source code. My previous template was a three column one. Most of the code didn’t fit into the middle column of the template, so people had to scroll all the time and formatting was awful.
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I tried quite a few templates, but they didn’t match what I wanted. Finally I ended up Continue reading
I am using a library and I need to pass some VM parameters on launch (e.g.
java -Dcom.kgasoft.param=true -jar mysoftware.jar). I had some unit tests on Jenkins and they failed, because I wasn’t able to pass these VM params. Continue reading
I am using Logback to do most of my logging. I am using a third party library for some computation. Luckily the library uses slf4j, meaning it’s agnostic of the logging implementation.
The library caches two collections of items and depending on the circumstances the item I am looking for may be in any of the two collections. This is not important. What is important, is that the library for some reason logs an error if an item cannot be found in the first collection.
I wanted to get rid of this message because it was cluttering my logs. But I didn’t want to disable all logging from this specific class, because it may print some useful logs. I just wanted to get rid of this specific log. There is a way to do it Continue reading
The Upgrade from OSX Lion to OSX Mavericks took quite a while (about 1 hour and 30 minutes). The installation got stuck towards the end in: “Less than a minute” for quite a while (it must have been more than 10-15 minutes).
I was tempted to hit the shutdown button Continue reading
I was reading a blog post the other day that in order to upgrade from OSX Lion to OSX Mavericks you need to first upgrade to mountain lion (paying the $20 upgrade fee). Checking the description by apple as pointed out here: http://www.apple.com/osx/how-to-upgrade/
it is evident that there is no such requirement:
You can upgrade to OS X Mavericks from Snow Leopard (10.6.8), Lion (10.7), or Mountain Lion (10.8).
So, I have backed up everything and I am going to start the upgrade process now!