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dropwizard-jobs in public maven repository

As I previously mentioned I really really loathe having to install publicly available packages to my local maven repository. While working on my personal API project, which I will return to in a

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fitbit4j - java fitbit api client in maven repository

fitbit4j is a fully working java API client library for the fitbit-API. I currently started working on a project that I intent to integrate with fitbit through their API, and quickly discovered a

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Date objects in Liferay Freemarker web content templates

Have you ever tried to manipulate one of the web content meta data dates as an actual date in a Liferay Freemarker web content template? Unfortunately these dates are handled very poorly by

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Liferay Spring MVC Freemarker Portlet Maven Archetype

I've just published a Liferay Spring MVC Freemarker Portlet Maven Archetype on github. It is a maven archetype for creating Liferay Spring MVC Freemarker portlets. Since this type of portlet is not officially

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Spark framework: The tiny framework that almost could

As part of my complete makeover of all my websites I spent the last few weeks creating an application in sparkframework, a non-enterprise Java micro web framework. However, I never actually launched it.

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Liferay Spring MVC portlets

Here I will guide you step by step through the process of creating Liferay Spring MVC portlets. I've already showed you how to create Liferay Spring MVC Freemarker portlets and how to create

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Liferay Spring MVC Freemarker and JSP portlets

I previously showed how to create a Liferay Spring MVC Freemarker portlets. But what if you want to use both Freemarker and JSP in the same portlet? Is it possible? If you are

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Liferay Freemarker Spring MVC portlets

Liferay Freemarker Spring MVC portlets are great, and certainly are my favourite way of developing portlets in Liferay at the moment, when creating non-webapp portlets. For business applications created as webapps Vaadin is

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Wordpress multisite: the worst feature of wordpress

Lately I've started a major overhaul of all of my sites, re-making them based on new and modern technology. First out is gsmblog.net, which I intended to base on Wordpress multisite. A

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Intellij IDEA losing focus in stumpwm on Linux

Or why Oracle sucks! I just installed Intellij today, not to replace Emacs (or Eclipse for Liferay stuff), but to use for things like PHP (which sucks) that Emacs doesn't have very good

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WarpMarkers - my first Minecraft plug-in

A few days ago I spent 48 hours creating my first ever Minecraft plug-in called WarpMarkers. This plugin outputs a JSON file containing the locations of Warppoints from the Essentials Bukkit plugin for