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Gradle Cookbook has a one liner to produce a fat jar. But what you want to make it just a bit more slim?

I love Scala, but there are bits that upset me.

It is possible to have hidden configuration properties in Gradle

Yesterday I was fighting a bug which should have never existed in the first place

It is possible to change JVM command line flag values in runtime. With just a bit of Unsafe magic, of course.

I was preparing a presentation on git I am about to deliver to a group of bioscientists. While doing so I learned couple of things myself. Here are the bits and pieces

All the years working in Linux I did not know how to debug in Linux. GDB is simply too scary for me... And now I needed to debug R. And you know what, it is that simple:

sudo apt-get install nemiver
./R -d nemiver

And that's it!

R starts under …

It is probably a good idea to have audit enabled on the server. Even though a hacker could disable it (if he was able to penetrate the server and gain root), there is still chance that he will not check for audit to be enabled.