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Comment on mvn eclipse: “Request to merge when ‘filtering’ is not identical.” by Toby

Toby — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:04:34 +0000

Thanks, this helped!

Comment on mvn eclipse: “Request to merge when ‘filtering’ is not identical.” by Ganesh Krishnan

Ganesh Krishnan — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 13:12:36 +0000

Thanks for the tip! I was pulling my hair out trying to figure out the include/exclude crap when all it required was a change in version of the eclipse plugin.

Thanks again!

Comment on Apple sues HTC over trivial patents by Chris Ey

Chris Ey — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:59:08 +0000

Exactly, hence my getting sick of trivial patents. For example, Kodak sued apple over this:

“The first suit against Apple covers the previewing of images, and processing them at different resolutions.”

This is what I would call trivial. Of course you are processing an image at full resolution while previewing it at lower resolution. Everything else doesn’t make any sense. Where’s the rocket science which is worth protecting?

I think the bar for stuff to be patentable is far too low!

Why should Kodak (or anybody) be able to receive money for or prevent the competition from doing trivial things which any person with an average IQ and an appropriate education can come up with in a couple of seconds?

Comment on Apple sues HTC over trivial patents by Tim Miller

Tim Miller — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:35:24 +0000

Don't forget the Nokia sued Apple twice last year in Oct and Dec - see "Nokia sues Apple (again)". Oh and Kodak too: "Kodak sues Apple on claims of iPhone-related patent infringement". Aside from large companies with their own R&D, Apple and many other larger product companies (anyone with deep pockets) are also sued routinely by "patent trolls." Here is just the latest example "Patent Troll Sues Apple Over Wireless Messaging Technology".

Comment on Grails’ REST Client violates HTTP 1.1? by Chris Ey

Chris Ey — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:36:23 +0000

Filed this problem here:
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GRAILSPLUGINS-1988

Comment on Line numbers in exception don’t match GSP file by Chris Ey

Chris Ey — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 01:56:47 +0000

Thanks. Filed this problem in Jira:
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GRAILS-5937

Comment on Grails’ REST Client violates HTTP 1.1? by Chris Ey

Chris Ey — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:40:31 +0000

Right, I am referring to the Rest Client Plugin:
http://www.grails.org/plugin/rest

Sorry if I got it confused with Grails’ official code. But wouldn’t it make sense to have an official REST client built in? Or is there any other recommended way to talk to a REST service from within Grails?

Comment on Line numbers in exception don’t match GSP file by Graeme Rocher

Graeme Rocher — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:22:26 +0000

Please raise a JIRA and we’ll get this fixed

Comment on Grails’ REST Client violates HTTP 1.1? by Graeme Rocher

Graeme Rocher — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:20:01 +0000

Grails’ REST client doesn’t violate anything. Fundamentally because we don’t ship with a REST client so the REST client you refer to is not Grails’ official one. If you a referring to the Grails REST plugin it may well do, but we (the Grails team) don’t maintain the plugin and a plugin doesn’t necessarily mean Grails itself.