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How To Recover Deleted Subversion Branch

~2 years ago by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on justaddwater.dk.
I recently deleted a branch from our (svn) code repository. Did you know that it’s the general recommendation to delete a branch after a merge to ensure...

Mac Harddisk Upgrade Usability Improvements

~2 years ago by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on justaddwater.dk.
Blogging for the first time in a long time from my wife’s computer, because I’m installing my brand new Intel SSD hard drive in my macbook. Oddly enough...

Rake Task To Validate All Items on All Models

almost 2 years ago by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on justaddwater.dk.
I wanted a way to see if somebody had entered “illegal” data into loaded fixtures. So I wrote this simple rake task. It’s also useful to run as you...

Why WebStandards Matter

almost 2 years ago by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on justaddwater.dk.
I just revisited “Why Web Standards Matter (Case Study)”, that I wrote on the background of a customer problem back in 2006. The points are actually...

Google’s Direct Links Inside Suggestion List

almost 2 years ago by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on justaddwater.dk.
I just saw this feature today: Google added direct links into the list of autocompleting search results: In this case, I searched for “earth h….”...

Groovy for Hudson console

almost 2 years ago by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on justaddwater.dk.
Hudson continuous integration server has a console which is good for testing scripts and access to commands that your Hudson jobs need. The hudson console...

Explanation of Firebug Net Panel Findings

almost 2 years ago by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on justaddwater.dk.
Jan Odvarko – one of the Firebug developers – posted some very good explanations on the information available from the Firebug net panel. Here is the...

Capgemini SmartLunch: Cucumber for Automated Acceptance Testing

almost 2 years ago by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on justaddwater.dk.
Today I did an internal presentation on how we used Cucumber as testing framework on several recent occasions. The presentation was held in our usual Capgemini...

Lessons Learned from Pixar

almost 2 years ago by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on justaddwater.dk.
I took Jeff Atwodd’s advice and watched Ed Catmull of Pixar: “Keep your crises small”. A presentation about lessons learned from successes and crises...

Seeding Rails App With RESTful Address Data

almost 2 years ago by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on justaddwater.dk.
Grabbing data from Restful webservices has never been easier. I use this code in the Rails /db/seeds.rb file to grab data from the Danish webservice with...