EC Tech JVM Language Series

There will be a set of hands-on sessions with JVM languages for EC Tech that I will be hosting for this coming season.  What happened was, I was looking up a new TV diet called the GOLO diet when I ran across the GOLO language.  After reading about it, I realized there was a lot of […]

A Quick Sanity Check: Git Tag Cleanup Routine

I mentioned in an earlier post that if you want to move a tag in git you have to do a discrete tag delete, push, then re-add the same tag, push.  Sometimes though there are tags already out of sync in your repo.  To handle things nicely, first do this routine. Update your local repos […]

Ant, IntelliJ, and Eclipse

And it’s way in the future and here we are again arguing about which IDE is better: IntelliJ or Eclipse.  It never goes away.  And NetBeans is still the choice of newbs, and gets cast aside for enterprise work.  Personally I never look at it so it’s not in this discussion.  We are talking PRACTICE. […]

Git Tags Local And Remote: Be. Careful.

If you are a daily developer like me, but not a release manager, getting called on to do release activities can be a frustrating thing.  One of those things can be believing your tool’s view. Be careful – if you’ve updated your git tags – local SourceTree will show git tags at a spot that […]