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Integrating Spring, Groovy and WebMacro into a new web application is proving a little more painful than I’d hoped.
The main problem seems to be Groovy’s current immaturity. It’s a moving target and while it is possible to use it fine for applications now, it takes so long to work out how things work because the […]

I was looking through Activity Monitor, the Mac OSX performance monitoring tool. I noticed widgets taking up to 8% CPU, and that only one was actually doing so - the iTunes Widget?!
Yes, the innocent looking default widget was using 7-8% CPU on my 1.42GHz mac mini, without the dashboard even being visible.
A hunch tells me […]

Drag and drop is great. Drag a folder called X over onto another folder called X to add new files to the original X folder.
WRONG! Not in Mac OS X finder. It will remove the old folder completely first and then copy the new one there. Therefore if you have a folder containing some […]

The config is still way too complicated, but I have managed to get it working without user accounts.
It turns out CRAM-MD5 support works on MacOS X (10.4 Tiger at least) and therefore you can have per-repository user databases. You have to follow the the (pretty poor) instructions and edit svnserve.conf to setup a password database. […]

I was hoping to start using Subversion for version control on a new project, and run the server on an Mac mini to boot.
I had always perhaps romantically thought that Subversion was a fantastic easy to use replacement for CVS. Having spent a little while trying to set up an SVN server and looking at […]