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It's exactly one year since I posted my first tweet on Twitter - time for a review. Before I give some reasons why I use Twitter, let's have a look at some stats. I sent out roughly 2660 tweets, on average 8.4 per day: Looking at my tweet density, I hardly seem to be getting any sleep, which [ READ MORE ]

Mac in Black: Taking Screenshots with Skitch

Last week, Heiko, Jan and I were talking about blogging about the tools that make our lifes easier on the Mac. "Isn't the Mac supposed to be making your life easier anyway?" you might ask. Well, most things really are easy with a Mac. However, there are some things that cannot be done easily with [ READ MORE ]

Formatting your code using the Eclipse Code Formatter

In case you needed to format a batch of code using a command line utility, you probably went for Jalopy or JIndent. Thanks to Ben Konrath of Red Hat, you no longer need to do so: since Eclipse 3.2, you can use the built-in code formatter to format your Java code using the command line. Here's [ READ MORE ]

Mind-boggling #1: Ant patternset

If you're a Windows user like me, you are used to the idea that a filename consist of a first (the name) and a second part (the extension). Recently, I had to write a little Ant file that copies an entire JRE to another directory. In order to do this, I used the following snippet:   <!-- [ READ MORE ]

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