I’ve brushed up a handy tool I wrote a few years ago. It allows quick inspection of Maven pom.xml files on the command line, producing human readable plain text output. If you’ve ever found yourself grepping pom.xml files for version numbers or other bits of information, you might find it useful. Check it out on […]
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Slow HP Elitebook 840 laptop ?
I currently use an employer issued HP Elitebook 840 G4-laptop for development work. It has annoyed me. It has bothered me. It has always been totally under-performing, despite its Intel Core i7 CPU, and even with power connected and all Windows power management settings verified to be sane. I didn’t figure out why until recently […]
Why you should use Mozilla Firefox
Recently, Microsoft announced that it will base future versions of its Edge browser on the Chromium web engine (Blink, which also powers Google Chrome). The linked blog post states: Making the web better through more open source collaboration blogs.microsoft.com I will not argue against open source collaboration being a good thing, but the web will […]