Fernando Meyer

Are you tired to run ant scripts and wait for tests results whenever you change some source file? Yes, me too, basically I got autotest’s idea for ruby and Did it work for ant as well. Continually runs tests based on files you’ve changed improving feedback with a fancy Growl alert.

If you are a Java developer and works with ant (on mac of course) check out my bash script( and avoid cruise control for little stuf ) **see update

Change all images paths on the script, put the script in your project folder and execute it

remember you need unit tests to use this script properly.


If you have some idea on how to improve it, let me know

** now hosted at github

git clone git://github.com/fmeyer/autotestmac.git

I just updated my MBP to the latest Apple’s OS 10 ( leopard ) the system is good, few eye-candies updates, although was a bit disappointing don’t see java6 around ( they removed the early beta version from ADC as well, so, don’t waste your time looking for it).

Apple, I don’t care about java6 for now you can delay it until you make it good. BUT… man when you delivery something with your OperatingSystem make sure that this thing works, I got really angry with a BUGGED java5 version, the exactly version is

java version “1.5.0_13″
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_13-b05-237)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_13-119, mixed mode, sharing)

This bug looks like its deep inside Apple’s windowing toolkit implementation as you can see in the following stack trace

Exception in thread “AWT-EventQueue-0″ java.lang.NullPointerException
at apple.awt.CGraphicsEnvironment.displayChanged(CGraphicsEnvironment.java:65)
Invalid memory access of location 00000000 eip=00000000
at apple.awt.CToolkit$4.run(CToolkit.java:1259)
at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:209)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:461)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.j

ava:269)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:190)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:184)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java

A guy from GWT dev list submitted a bug report to Apple: Problem ID 5563333 - “CGraphicsEnvironment NullPointerException breaks continually on OsX 10.5″, so engineers and QA move your asses and get this thing done, because you are affecting my work and some more guys around the world.

I was looking for an alternative client for macOS because I hate the windows style of ciscoVPN client for mac,

And I found this. http://www.nexumoja.org/projects/Shimo/

Shimo is the best choice for mac for the following reasons;

• More stable and well integrated than cisco vpn client
• Nice statistics screen
• Keychain integration
• Connect on login
• Can be easily integrate with growl for notifications
• If you’ve installed cisco VPN before it will import your previous settings.

I think that you all will enjoy it

I’m changing my default RSS reader from the web-based bloglines to Vienna, a rss reader for Mac OS X, Vienna keeps following RSS feeds simple and functional with smart folders, groups, an integrated browser and item flagging. It’s the perfect tool for offline readers like me.

ps: Yeap, I’m having some problems to get an internet connection here in Colombia; (sic)

I don’t know why but it’s happening, every time when i open a second gmail tab my Firefox crashes

Exception: EXC_BAD_INSTRUCTION (0×0002)
Code[0]: 0×0000000d
Code[1]: 0×00006e64

Thread 0 Crashed:
0   libSystem.B.dylib                  0×90029ae5 _longjmp + 37
1   <<00000000>>     0xc00101dd 0 + -1073675811

I was looking for some similar bug at firefox bugzilla but, I didn’t found anything about it. That isn’t the unique problem, I’m coding a web interface to access and test some Webservices, then I discovered another bug: div element with visibility:hidden still show scrollbars, I couldn’t reproduce the problem on Firefox running over Win32 with the same html file, so I think that’s a bug.