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I often find myself having to fiddle about with ignore settings in various IDEs, so I thought I’d put together a simple general purpose solution that will ignore all the usual suspects for Intellij and Eclipse within a Maven reactor build (even works on a Mac). [Read More]

The other day I needed to deploy MultiBit Merchant (a Dropwizard project) on to Heroku. This is all part of my continuous deployment strategy and I thought it would be helpful to others if I posted how I managed to get it is all to work. [Read More]

As part of my ongoing open source project MultiBit Merchant (MBM) I am keeping a journal of my discoveries and thoughts along the way. This one deals with why Bitcoin offers merchants the highest profit margins for their sales by removing fraud from the payment process. [Read More]

It happens to all of us eventually. You’re working along quite merrily and then suddenly everything freezes up. You try switching it off and on again and the machine fails to boot up. In short, your hard drive has failed and you now face a serious interruption to your day. [Read More]

When developing an application or library it is important to recognise the importance of deprecation. Without it, dead code hangs around building up technical debt. The problem is that developers are often reluctant to remove this dead code because they fear that it will break downstream users of the code. The idea is that by preserving the public API they will keep their users happier. [Read More]