JVM default encoding as UTF-8 Make the JVM use UTF-8 character encoding by default Set up the system property JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS to -Dfile.encoding=UTF8

There are times when you only want to have the production code: downstream job after a successful build compiling in local after checkout from DVCS spiking (possibly the tests are broken) speeding up the process For that, maven allows to skip the tests, selectively: -DskipTests compiles the tests, but skips running them -Dmaven.test.skip skips compiling the tests and does not run them. This can also be written as -Dmaven.

In bash, the usual behavior is to return the last status code: bash-3.1$ tr tr: two strings must be given when translating bash-3.1$ echo $? 1 But this also applies to pipes: bash-3.1$ tr|tee 1.txt tr: two strings must be given when translating bash-3.1$ echo $? 0 Should you want to pass the non-zero (error) status code to the next operation, use this feature toggle: set -o pipefail bash-3.1$ set -o pipefail bash-3.

Blazing Fast HTML: Virtual DOM in Elm I’ve read this article explaining how Elm works in relation to the virtual DOM. By Evan Czaplicki. Tags: elm, dom, virtual-dom, comparison, speed, haskell, evan-czaplicki Why you should never, ever, ever use MongoDB I’ve read this article stating the downsides of using MongoDB. Written by Sven Slootweg Tags: mongodb, downside, sven-slootweg, json, document-store, postgresql, acid Do you really get classloaders? I’ve watched this video by Jevgeny Kabanov on classloaders: what they are, how they work nad some tips to solve common issues.

Books I’ve read this quarter1: The Craftsman by Richard Sennett. Posts under the tag the-craftsman Software Craftsmanship: The New Imperative by Pete McBreen. Posts under the tag software-craftsmanship-book Lisp Hackers by Vsevolod Dyomkin The Passionate Programmer: Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development by Chad Fowler. Books started, not yet finished (WIP): Haskell Programming, By Chris Allen and Julie Moronuki. This book is still in progress and I’m reviewing it Functional Programming Patterns in Scala and Clojure by Michael Bevilacqua-Linn Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware by Andy Hunt Books I want to finish:

Today, at a client, I’ve facilitated the brown-bag session on Clojure, introducing Lisp’s homoiconicity. Session Structure The session was designed as a kata, first introducing participants in the problem, letting some time to read the initial version and to think about possible solutions. Then, I structured the rest of the time as a prepared kata, where I was explaining in the beamer our current problems (day-to-day tasks) and possible solutions in Clojure.