Problem When deploying you Xtend application to a different environment than your development environment you might encounter an error such as: [ERROR] symbol: class Consumer [...] [ERROR] cannot find symbol Solution This error is caused by Xtend trying to use Java 8 features. It does so when your development machine runs
Right clicking within a folder of the Windows Explorer allows access to a convenient way to create new files through the context menu: This post discusses a number of ways how this context menu can be changed. Edit Menu With Handy Tool ShellNewHandler is a useful tool to 'clean
virtualbox
Problem You are using VirtualBox with a Linux Guest and the clipboard sharing between Host and Guest stops working. Solution Open a Terminal on the Linux Guest and run the following two commands: killall VBoxClient VBoxClient-all References VirtualBox bidirectional clipboard sharing stops working after some time
habits
Unquestionably there is value in the process of writing in itself; previously muddy ideas are clarified and new ideas emerge by bringing them on paper. However, writing is arguably more valuable if what is written is also read (and then, hopefully, refined). Unfortunately, finding readers in our busy and information-saturated
ssl
With recent developments brining Internet security into the spotlight (such as heartbeat), SSL certificates are easily one of the cornerstones of any Internet-enabled application. Unfortunately, a simple Google search does not easily reveal the best options for obtaining SSL certificates. Thus, I have compiled a small list of popular SSL
writing
When writing only paraphrases words, phrases, ideas and concepts familiar to us, we often perceive it as boring and dull. If, on the other hand, writing consists mostly of words, phrases, ideas and concepts that are unfamiliar to us, we often perceive it as complex, difficult or even incomprehensible. The
writing
One of the most crucial prerequisites for writing, in my mind, is preparedness of knowledge and style. Preparedness of knowledge entails that one has sufficient knowledge (or thoughts/ideas) of the topic one wants to write about. This seems pretty self-evident, since, as magical as the process of writing might
netty
Knowing Where You Are First you can do a few simple test to see how good (or bad) your current SSL configuration of your Netty server is. Note: These tools also work with any other web server. * Perform the wormly SSL Web server test on your server to get an
Problem You are trying to load a script from a local file into a page displayed in Firefox (as can sometimes be useful for testing). Firefox reports an error such as Error: Permission denied to access property 'document' Error: Permission denied to access property 'local' Solution
Problem You have created an instance of a CodeMirror and initialized it with some text and would like to correct its indentation or you would like to give the user the option to 'autoformat' the text entered. Solution Iterate over all lines in the editor and indent them
eclipse
Xtend is currently my favourite alternative language for the JVM (closely followed by Kotlin). Unfortunately, I did not find a good guide of how to set up a Maven project within eclipse (Luna) which uses Xtend. Specifically the following guide will allow you to allow you to write test cases
firebase
While Backed-as-a-Service (BaaS) - and their stepbrothers PaaS - offerings should sensibly support various domain-specific data models for the application they support, these services are inherently built on a 'meta' data model. This meta data model lays the constraints for all domain-specific data and should thus be an
