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Init Gradle Wrapper without Gradle

Steps to install Gradle Wrapper without Gradle in the system.

How I approach a new open source project

From time to time I need to evaluate a new technology which is about to be used in house. Here is a list of steps I take to make sure the project is decent.

Workaround for empty parameters Jenkins bug

A solution to an annoying bug in Jenkins

EasyMock with Java8 Lambdas

How to use Java8 lambdas with EasyMock

A hidden way to make desktop nice in xfce4

There is one little feature Xfce4 has that I always forget how to enable.

Simple dependency version management with Spring

Spring has a nice feature to automatically select version of the dependency. That is how it can be used separately.

Using previous build as a library

I recently built a Linux shared library using its previous build as one of the statically linked libraries

Gradle to determine parent branch

If you want to determine what is the parent git branch of the current one