In the last few days, I've been slowly converting from CVS to SVN as my primary repository. Creating the repository was easy. Importing my existing projects,…

Have you ever wanted to quickly send a POST request to a HTTP server? It's pretty easy to do using curl. For example to send XML via a POST request, you coul…

IDEA can export Java source code to HTML, which I find quite useless. I really like the way Java2Html works but there is no integration with IDEA. You can ea…

I've been playing with TestNG for a few days now. I really like it. It makes me want to write more tests. I was wondering if there was a way to create a test…

I use IDEA for most of my development, but since I work with many different companies, I often have to use Eclipse too. Every couple months or so, I make a p…

Tom is calling foul on Apple's use of benchmarks for the new Intel Macs. Cédric is talking about mass hypnosis which I totally agree with. Steve has been reh…

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