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You need to associate ‘.gradle’ extension with groovy as follows:
In order to run gradle scripts from Textmate use bundle from https://github.com/alkemist/gradle.tmbundle
Many a times when you need to understand or optimize the dependency tree in Eclipse projects, it’s simpler to look at .classpath file or at the build path of Eclipse project. However it doesn’t remain practical for a big workspace as .classpath file contains many other things other than <classpathentry/> tags and also you have to open individual .classpath files in different Eclipse projects. Looking at Eclipse buildpath becomes too repetitive and mechanical in a big workspace.
eclipse-to-maven project supports the functionality to print the Eclipse dependency tree in readable format. The steps on how to use this it are mentioned in the README of the project.
While working in distributed Agile, one of the repeated patterns is “2-dimensional (2D) communication”. Distributed communication generally happens with Skype video and Mikogo desktop sharing tools. Skype kind of video-chat solutions help in bringing distances closer as team members can look at body language of their distributed partners while talking. At the same time, distributed desktop-sharing tools (Mikogo, yuuguu, Skype screen share etc) enable distributed pair programming as developers from both sides can look and use their own machine. Sitting posture is much more comfortable than collocated pair-programming.
Initially communication mode works well but after a while (say after 2+ months) it becomes monotonous, technical in nature and less focused on soft-nuances of communication. People talk when they need to and only to fix technical issues. Human touch goes down as time elapses which is a usual phenomenon of distance communication. Discussions on personal life, things beyond project scope and fun talks cannot happen in an environment in which your sole purpose of talking most of the times is resolving a technical issue.
[Read more…] about Distributed Agile : Bridging Communication Gap with Virtual “One Room”
Installing new version of Grails is easy. However it’s quite a pain to make it running on Cygwin. The problem is as follows:
Jdk 5 introduced “javaagent” as one of the JAVA_OPTS and it has been used in running Grails 2. Shell scripts convert $GRAILS_HOME in cygwin format for running grails. So for instance if $GRAILS_HOME is c:/grails, it becomes ‘/cygdrive/c’ in cygwin format. This makes
[bash]
AGENT_STRING=-"-javaagent:$GRAILS_HOME/lib/com.springsource.springloaded/springloaded-core/jars/springloaded-core-0.8.4.jar
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to something like this:
[bash]
$ echo $AGENT_STRING
$ "-javaagent:/cygdrive/c/grails/lib/com.springsource.springloaded/springloaded-core/jars/springloaded-core-0.8.4.jar
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which JRE doesn’t understand while executing ‘java’. It expects -javaagent value to be something like ‘c:/grails/lib/com.springsource.springloaded/springloaded-core/jars/springloaded-core-0.8.4.jar’.
To make it work, following changes need to be done in $GRAILS_HOME/bin/startGrails script:
Introduce a new variable something like GRAILS_HOME_FORWARD_SLASH before making any change to environment based $GRAILS_HOME.
[bash]
# For Cygwin, ensure paths are in UNIX format before anything is touched
GRAILS_HOME_FORWARD_SLASH=`echo $GRAILS_HOME|sed ‘s/[\]/\//g’`
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Also change the way AGENT_STRING is defined as follows:
[bash]
AGENT_STRING="-javaagent:$GRAILS_HOME_FORWARD_SLASH/lib/com.springsource.springloaded/springloaded-core/jars/springloaded-core-0.8.4.jar -noverify -Dspringloaded=profile=grails"
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This change lets you work with Grails 2 now on Cygwin
I like tree command on linux which provide you the snapshot of the directory structure and files in a tree view. Something like this:
As most of the times I use CygWin on Windows, I wanted to get ‘tree’ working here too. I could find the source of it at http://freshmeat.net/projects/tree/ which I compiled and installed based on the instructions mentioned.
Though it worked but I started getting problems because of non-ASCII characters used in the ‘tree’ output. For that I installed mintty. ‘mintty’ is even cooler to use on top of cygwin. At the same time I got ‘tree’ command working the way I wanted.