Mac OS X defaults : Add recents to Dock nearly killed my Dock

Nice tip from TUAW : Add recent Applications … simply

> defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add '{ "tile-data" = { "list-type" = 1; }; "tile-type" = "recents-tile"; }'

> killall Dock


if you’ve mis-typed and the Dock would no start again you can remove this domain(com.apple.dock) and key(persistent-others) by using

> defaults delete com.apple.dock persistent-others

and redo the above…. you can also use

> defaults read com.apple.dock persistent-others

to see the current values

defaults man page and more excellent tips from MacOSXTips.co.uk

mvn release:*

I am trying to use maven release plugin to cut releases, I really like maven’s dependency management, and here’s trying to use maven to manage releases. Special thanks to John and Nick.

It’s really just 3 steps :

1. mvn release:prepare -DdryRun=true
2. mvn release:clean release:prepare
3. mvn release:perform

But here are some things I learnt though…

1. Upon release:prepare errors, use release:rollback before release:clean (wipe out all the pom.* release.properties that’s needed for release plugin)
2. Undoing subversion changes using  svn merge -r 999:998 http://subversion/project/dir to revert back to the last working version. This is because release:prepare errors might have occurred after copy checked into subversion.

And finally, some pre-requisites :

Working copy must be SNAPSHOT

Dependencies must NOT be SNAPSHOT – to overcome this I had to  download and install a ’special version’ into your own (local) maven repository :

mvn:deploy

will deploy to my scm definition in my pom.xml

<scm>
<connection>scm:svn:http://subversion/project/dir</connection>
<developerConnection>scm:svn:http://subversion/project/dir</developerConnection>
<url>http://subversion/project/dir</url>
</scm>

and reference to it in your repository

<repository>
<id>vocanic-m2</id>
<url>http://subversion/m2/</url>
<snapshots>
<enabled>true</enabled>
</snapshots>
</repository>

Mac OS subversion 1.4.4 – use this version because on Leopard, subversion 1.5.1 has a problem and somehow can’t create tags on subversion causing the release:prepare to check in the release copy but cannot move/create a tag copy – that’s where I learn (2) above – see here also

Firefox autocomplete on HTML Form

Just learn t something today…

FireFox will cache your form values when you refresh a page…. I had this problem and was causing my animation to go haywire…. if you need to turn this auto caching off you can do :


<form autocomplete="off" /> or <input ... autocomplete="off" />


Default Gateway on Ubuntu


josh@wombat:/etc/network$ more interfaces
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

## Network interface(s)
## You should (un)comment and edit according to your needs.

# The primary network interface (dhcp)
#auto eth0
#iface eth0 inet dhcp

# The primary network interface (static IP)
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.1.45
netmask 255.255.255.0
#gateway 192.168.1.1
gateway 192.168.1.254
broadcast 192.168.1.255