Archive for May, 2009

Auto-Grabbing Dependencies with Groovy Scripts

Now here’s something cool for your once-in-while, small, groovy sysadmin scripts…
When you write a groovy script, chances are that, when it gets just a little bigger than damn-small, it will require some third party dependencies, to be able to run properly. So, what do you do? You end up either a) package dependent jars in [...]

May 18, 2009   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments

Compile Time Meta Programming in Groovy

Today at gr8conf–which by the way is a grait conference–I heard Guillaume LaForge, talk about the new stuff in groovy 1.6. One of those being AST transformations or what they call compile time meta programming.
Through annotations, one is able to tell the compiler to change the code, before it is producing actual byte-code output from [...]

May 18, 2009  Tags:   Posted in: Programming  No Comments

Open RAWs from iPhoto in External Editor

I finally got my Adobe Photoshop Elements for Mac and of course jumped right into iPhoto to try and open an image in the great Camera Raw converter.
First thing to do was to go into iPhoto preferences “General” and set Photoshop Elements as the external editor program. Nice and easy. I then tried to open [...]

May 14, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Photography, Tools  2 Comments