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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 …

Web Development is hard. And it is hard for all the wrong reasons. Take creation of this blog, for example. All I wanted was a simple web site, no twitter integration, no interactive content. Nothing out of ordinary. But I had few obvious restrictions, such as "No PHP". And what …