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How to See “Closed” GitHub Issues by Label

Riyad Kalla — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 20:32:29 +0000

GitHub’s issue-tracker is solid. It is easy to understand, easy to use and easy on the eyes. Unfortunately while trying to create a handy changelog link for the 1.2 release of imgscalr I noticed that GitHub doesn’t allow you to search Closed issues by label, only Open issues: I spent a while reading through the [...]

How to Make IntelliJ Re-combine Split Lines (Ignore Newline Characters)

Riyad Kalla — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:32:09 +0000

If you are an IntelliJ user and were wondering how to have IntelliJ reformat an entire file – including throwing out newline characters that were splitting lines and re-combine them – you are in luck. As it turns out IntelliJ IDEA already supports this feature, unfortunately it is just hidden in an unexpected place (at [...]

Use IHeaderResponse.renderJavaScript(CharSequence,String) to Avoid Duplicates

Riyad Kalla — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:57:51 +0000

Apace Wicket Quick Tip If you are working with multiple AjaxEventBehavior‘s (like AjaxFormSubmitBehavior and AjaxFormValidatingBehavior) on similar components in a Page and you are using IHeaderResponse.renderJavaScript(CharSequence) it’s possible you are contributing duplicate JavaScript over and over again to the header section of your Page unecessarily. As it turns out, by simply changing to use the IHeaderResponse.renderJavaScript(CharSequence,String) [...]

Disable 'Indexing' in Windows 7 to Speed Up Deletion of Many Files

Riyad Kalla — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:58:29 +0000

I’ve been on Windows 7 since the RC was released — that coupled with the fact that I’m a blogger makes me an expert, you should trust me and take my word on everything unconditionally — and while I’ve been overall pretty happy (20 tips and tricks, 8GB performance) there have been a few niggles [...]

How to Crack any Padlock

Riyad Kalla — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 03:23:59 +0000

Pretty awesome real-world algorithm guide for cracking any padlock out there — not that secure for folks in-the-know:

How to Remove reycross.com WordPress Malware

Riyad Kalla — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 05:46:02 +0000

It seems that a new WordPress malware hijack is making the rounds and we got hit. Google just issued me a “this site contains malware” warning for my sites, after some quick investigation it looks like the hijack has attached a malicious <iframe> block to the end of every HTML and PHP page in the [...]

Did You Know enums Can Define Their Own Methods?

Riyad Kalla — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:06:10 +0000

… I sure as hell didn’t, but found myself in a position the other day where I was thinking “Damn, I wish I could define a common method in this enum that I could call and not have to write another utility method…” Well, ask and ye shall receive… or something like that. Here’s the [...]

How to Setup an SVN Server to use in Eclipse

Ray Gomez — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:13:36 +0000

So, after thousands of lines of code you’ve managed to build an awesome, feature rich program, and you are really to label it 1.0. You want to bring in more developers because it is doing so great… What do you do? Well, regardless of whether you have hit 1.0, version control is something that should [...]