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How To Recover Deleted Subversion Branch

9 months 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

7 months 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

7 months 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

6 months 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

5 months 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

4 months 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

4 months 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

4 months 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

4 months 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

4 months 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...