Zemian Blog: A Programmer's Journal

You might have heard of the project Grails is a Groovy version of Ruby on Rails like framework that let you create web application much more...

I just noticed that Cygwin's cygpath command supports -p option. This is a real gem when writing Java wrapper script that needs to cov...

Believe it or not, There is no such thing as Plain Text! All files in a modern Operating Sytems (Windows, Linux, or MacOSX) are saved ...

Many Java applications would deploy and run it with some kind of external configuration files. It's very typical that you would want a s...

When I wrote about how to improve the Java Properties class using Props , I've shown a feature where you can use variable substition suc...

We often think of Cron when we want to schedule a job. Cron is very flexible in expressing an repeating occurance of an event/job in a very ...

Have you ever tried running Maven commands inside a sub-module of a multi modules Maven project, and get Could not resolve dependencies for ...