Archive for September, 2011

Collection of useful Git Tips to get started

Friday, September 30th, 2011 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen

I thought it was time to collect some of my most useful findings when working with Git. These are typically from situations where I found a useful way, which I wanted to jot down. Also I have answered and asked some questions on StackOverflow. The good thing about it, is that I am always able […]

Chrome “find in page” with smart search in unicode characters

Thursday, September 29th, 2011 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen

Look at this chrome search for the Danish letter “æ” in a page.
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Notice how Chrome actually also shows occurrences of “ae” when searching for “æ”.

I am suggesting a subtle change to better support a common usecase…

Java Friday Fun: @WTF annotations in code

Friday, September 16th, 2011 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen

Time for a little geeky gimmick. Some developers see and express a lot of “WTF??” while trying to understand code IN this spirit, i created a quick @WTF annotation for Java. Besides being completely useless (its removed at compile time), its only purpose is to give developers a new way to express themselves in code. […]