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2010-06-28 :: Jim Priest // Code
Ant Refcardz from DZone

Today DZone release a new Refcardz for Ant: Getting Started with Apache Ant. This DZone Refcard will provide you with the perfect resource to help you automate software build processes with Apache Ant. Included is a description of the Anatomy of an Ant Script along with a number of tables detailing, among others: Core Java [...]

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2010-05-29 :: Jim Priest // Code
Passing Arguments To Ant Using Eclipse

Over the last few days I’ve been reworking one of my build files and needed to be able to pass in an argument at run time, which is easy to do using the command line.  But I became curious if there was any way to do it running the script within Eclipse. Turns out it [...]

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2010-05-28 :: Jim Priest // Code + Reviews
VirtualBox 3.1 Beginner's Guide

Packt recently sent me a copy of VirtualBox 3.1 Beginner’s Guide to check out. At first glance the book is very entry level. The discuss setting it up on both Windows 7 and Ubuntu Linux.  They also go into installing guest additions and sharing folders. But digging deeper into the index they also cover more [...]

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2010-05-06 :: Jim Priest // Code
Zen Coding – Lazy Coding To The Extreme

With one arm out of action for the next few weeks anything I can do to type less is good.  A few days ago Zen Coding popped up on my radar and today I finally found a few minutes to tinker and try it out. This is the holy grail of lazy typing! Basically it’s [...]

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2010-04-23 :: Jim Priest // Code
the sound of one hand typing

In my previous post I explained my accident, injuries and how I was missing cf.Objective. With this post I thought I would explain some of the tools I’m trying to use to continue working with my injuries. I’m currently working from home using my laptop and a VPN connection to work. Having only one hand [...]

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