Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
In the Walt Disney short animated movie Ferdinand The Bull the matador never get to show off his cape and sword. Sometimes I feel like the matador and want to show off my cape and sword (i.e. my programming skills), but for various reasons I can't. The bull (i.e. the ...
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
I wanted to set a couple of Windows environment variables from Ant. The environment key-value pairs are stored on the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment key in the registry. As a starting point I used the registry editor to export all keys. I called the file environment.reg.template and modified it to look ...
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
Ant again. We had a file with Oracle PL/SQL statements using declare, begin and end. When using the sql task in Ant, it complained about reaching end-of-file on the line with "declare". The problem is that Ant assumes that one line is one SQL statement, but it's not that simple ...
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
This is probably a well-known fact for everyone who has used Ant on Unix for a while, but an annoying discovery for me who have been hiding under a C++ rock. The five year old bug report File Permissions not preserved in replace task pretty much says it all: Java ...
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Thursday, December 13th, 2007
I've done some Apache Ant build file hacking today and that made me recall that the original author of Ant, James Duncan Davidson, actually regretted using XML as the file format.
Mysteriously missing from today's world wide web, but fortunately captured by the Wayback Machine, the blog entry Ant and XML ...
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