Mike 4.3.2012

  • Usual backups at site
  • No news at site
  • Finished my financial disclosure and submitted it
  • Had some thoughts about maven and looked up stuff:
    • Maven now has the ability to encrypt passwords inside the settings file so you can safely distribute the settings.xml file
    • Maven also allows the use of environment variables in the settings file.  So for example you could set the repository to be <localRepository>${env.M2_REPO}</localRepository> which would make sharing your settings file much simpler
    • Combining these you should be able to check your entire maven install, settings and all, in to subversion and use it to distribute changes to things like repositories, servers, passwords, etc.
  • Working on PKI integration of visibility
  • While doing that I got tired of closing, deleting, reopening and scrolling around the tomcat log files.  I figured there must be program designed for monitoring log files more efficiently and there is: BareTail (Windows).  It’s like the unix ‘tail -f’ command but you can add color coding rules and monitor multiple files among other things.