Mat Schaffer - Latest Comments

Re: iSepta Train View, my time with Dashcode

Outsourcing Copenhagen — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:51:44 -0000

iSepta is great. I don't know what else to say

Re: Installing ImageMagick on OS X Leopard

pete — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 10:26:27 -0000

Thanks Matt
Saved the day for me (again - I found this site before for something I think) - especially with that bloody backticked glibtool trick!!!!!!

Re: Removing code is a feature

Michael Bevilacqua-Linn — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 22:10:08 -0000

Amen. One of the most productive things I've done at work in the past few months was deleting ~10k of code/configuration.

Re: iSepta Train View, my time with Dashcode

Chris — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:16:28 -0000

Either way works for me.

Even a way to title the widget
(i'm not certain in your comment on uservoice whether you are titling the widget or the destination)

Two people at drexel have already seen it and asked where I got it. I'm pretty sure that one of them installed it .

Go you.

Re: iSepta Train View, my time with Dashcode

justin — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:52:13 -0000

Thanks Mat for the succinct description of the "development" process Dashcode inflicts. I have the same feelings about it you do....it's kind of like halfway between a text editor and and IDE, with a few bits of crippled functionality just to shit you. After using it for a while I was left with a question: Who's it for?
It's too complex for end users and tinkerers, but it's not flexible or well-designed enough for proper coders. mmmm.
Justin in Melbourne, Australia

Re: iSepta Train View, my time with Dashcode

schapht — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:50:59 -0000

Glad you like it!

I have a feature request pretty similar to that here:
http://iseptatrainview.uservoice.com/pages/gene...

Do you think that'd cover it? Rather than a custom name like "Home" I may just take the destination name from iSepta and display that at the bottom or top of the widget.

Re: iSepta Train View, my time with Dashcode

Chris — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:00:42 -0000

In a word, Awesome.

One tiny feature request..... tell me which direction the train is going (or where it's departing from)
Really useful for us laptop users that check isepta (now this widget) from both home and work.

Re: iSepta Train View, my time with Dashcode

DotEd — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 23:32:16 -0000

anything that builds on iSepta is a great idea in my book. Lucky for me, I take the R7 Levittown to Suburban, which is rarely late. However, if I want to take the R3 Yardley to Suburban, which is ALWAYS late, this will be handy dandy.

Re: Groovy Unit Tests on Maven & Eclipse

schapht — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 08:01:13 -0000

Glad I could help! I might have to give Guice a try too.

Re: Groovy Unit Tests on Maven & Eclipse

Rick R — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:45:44 -0000

Thanks Mat for replying. For now I switched to JUnit (and using Guice as well) and things are fine.

I'm currently not extending groovy.util.GroovyTestCase, just using AtUnit from Guice.. and it works pretty nicely.)

Thanks again. Eventually I'll get it working with TestNG, but for now JUnit is fine.

Re: Groovy Unit Tests on Maven & Eclipse

schapht — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:57:14 -0000

I haven't tried the testng groovy integration. All my tests extend groovy.util.GroovyTestCase which I believe is JUnit by definition. I would expect that for TestNG tests to work correctly you'll need to include TestNG as a dependency in your pom.

Also I had a lot of issues getting groovy tests to work in eclipse until I started putting them under src/test/java. But gmaven worked regardless of where the tests were.

Re: Groovy Unit Tests on Maven & Eclipse

Rick R — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:48:30 -0000

I'm having a bitch of time getting this to work correctly. I'm running into classpath issues so I'm wondering what I'm doing wrong. I have my test groovy code under src/test/groovy and my main groovy under scr/main/groovy. Without the configuration setup for the gmaven plugin, my standard groovy and java code complies just fine - it's just getting the tests under src/test/groovy to work correctly. It's as if it doesn't recognize the classpath at all (it first barfs jon "org.testng.annotations does not exist" - mind you the regular java tests work fine once I remove the configuration for gmvaen, it's only getting these groovy tests to work.)

I posted what I think should be my relevant pom information here
http://pastie.org/406377

Any tips much appreciated.

Re: My new X-Plat strategy

schapht — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:33:33 -0000

I'm a little bit depressed that although this was intended as a joke, I'm now part of the "Cross Platform" team. Ah well...

Re: Dude your PubNite was totally epic!

cbartlett — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:19:19 -0000

A whopping 3 pics but here they are: http://www.flickr.com/photos/colinandangie/sets...

Re: My new X-Plat strategy

Karl — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:00:22 -0000

hehe

Re: GTAC 2008 Restrospective

TTop — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:08:34 -0000

The visualization tool he said was an internal Microsoft tool which he called "HeatMap" at one point. I did a little googling and found some other MS software (perf monitoring?) that has something called Heat Map view, but it's not the same thing. I'm sure someone could write an open source version using existing analysis tools -- I agree it was pretty slick looking.

I skipped the final presentation just based on the description -- continuous integration using batch files? It just sounded like something 10 years old. Sure enough, one of my friends who went to the final session said it was awful and caused the whole conference to end on a sour note... "based-on 90's technology that didn't acknowledge current open source tools that do the job better."

Nice to meet you,

-Todd

Re: We’re homeowners!

Anandh — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:38:16 -0000

Good Luck Mat.

Re: Fork my bash profile

schapht — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:21:52 -0000

I added the ant task tab-completion and pushed it to github.

Re: Fork my bash profile

schapht — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 21:39:43 -0000

Glad you like it! Feel free to email me a patch or pull request on github. I might just hack it in there myself.

Re: Fork my bash profile

Carl Leiby — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:55:22 -0000

Thanks for this! I find ant task completion handy, so I've added this to my local copy http://www.koders.com/perl/fidFA98C3EFDE94FDABF...

Re: More work on Corundum

Anshu — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 09:31:58 -0000

Congrats Mat !!

Re: We’re homeowners!

Dave Markowitz — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 08:53:23 -0000

Congrats and welcome to the poor house. ;-)

Re: We’re homeowners!

schapht — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 08:15:21 -0000

Thanks, man. Yeah, the mortgage agent hooked me up pretty well to, I think :)

Re: We’re homeowners!

cbartlett — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:51:10 -0000

There are banks left to borrow from?
Seriously, congrats. Welcome to the fabulous world of home ownership.