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Creating dmg files from Ant

For my little password manager, I’ve long wanted to be able to automate the task of creating a .dmg file for my osx users. In fact, about 18 months ago when I was linking to a page describing the manual process, I was saying this should be ant-able. Well since I’ve been doing a bunch of betas of the new version, I’m finally sick of creating .dmg files by hand and did some research on...

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Glassfish, AWStats and Access Log Formats

I’ve finally found some time to get awstats setup to crunch my Glassfish logs. This turned out to be a little trickier than I expected, so I though I’d write up some gotchas incase other are walking the same path. First up, you need to get Glassfish to write log files in a suiteable format for awstats. Glassfish gives you a nice admin GUI in /Configuration/HTTP Service/Access Logs where you can...

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Grails 0.3 ships with Freight Train Momentum

I figured something must be up when I saw that 31 outstanding bugs were fixed in the last 24 hours, then Graeme made the annoucement that Grails 0.3 was released and available for download. If you’ve been on the sidelines waiting to check out Grails, now is an excellent time. There have been enormous functionality enhancements in 0.3 (particularly in GORM – the ORM stuff – which...

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Grails presento in Canberra – Win an IntelliJ license!

I’ll be giving a presentation tomorrow night at our Canberra Java User Group titled "Impatient Web Development with Grails".  If you’re nearby, it’s gonna be a great night. Thanks to the generous guys at Jetbrains, we’re also giving away a copy of the IntelliJ IDEA 6.0 and TeamCity to one lucky attendee.  And we’re also grateful that the dudes...