Monthly Archives: April 2007

Using Launchy for application launching

I work with someone from OCI who has noted that there are a finite number of keystrokes within his fingers, so every one needs to count. This leads us geeky developer-types to take advantage of shortcuts within our IDEs and frequently-used programs. I have found an application that extends this mindset seamlessly into [...]


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Changing path and environment in Java ProcessBuilder

The new Java ProcessBuilder in 1.5 is very nice. But there are a few unexpected issues that I ran into while attempted to create an executable-wrapping framework with it.
The first and most important issue is this: Changes to the Path environment variable are not reflected until a new process is created and running. [...]


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Check out the latest GroovyMag to see an interview with me about the 1.1 release of GrailsUI: