http://blog.luckycatlabs.com Software quality and craftsmanship Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:13:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Want to add something to your projects Maven builds (like code coverage...) but don't want to CTL-C/CTL-V your way to boredom? Use the below script to lend a hand. Substitute the XML in the SNIPPET variable to the artifact/plugin/dependency to be injected (leave the tag in place) ... http://blog.luckycatlabs.com/2009/03/20/maven-with-ruby-part-ii/ Maven projects can become a wasteland of neglected, old dependencies: huge, unmanageable pom files and a local repository that's catalog of every Apache project in the past 10 years. Who knows if your project still requires that old version of Xerces? This script takes the name of a dependency ... http://blog.luckycatlabs.com/2009/03/13/using-ruby-to-help-maven/ Do you have an existing project you want to open-source? Does the thought of manually adding the license comment block to EVERY. SINGLE. SOURCE. FILE. sound not-so-exciting? Here's some help, ruby style: class Licenser def licenseFiles(dir) filenames ... http://blog.luckycatlabs.com/2009/01/31/licensing-your-code-the-ruby-way/ New from LuckyCat Labs is a Java library that computes the sunrise / sunset using GPS coordinates and today's date.  To use, simply download the tar or zip file from the GitHub page, or use git to pull the source: $ git clone git://github.com/mikereedell/sunrisesunsetlib-java Once you have the source, use the command: $ ... http://blog.luckycatlabs.com/2009/01/27/release-sunrisesunset-java-library/