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January, 2012

What to do if biber stops working on MacOS X

Yesterday evening I ran into a bit of a problem when I tried building my latex document that uses biblatex/biber. For some reason, biber would not generate any output but fail with Olivers-MacBook-Air:~ porten$ biber data source /var/folders/5c/y7ssnfgj2fz1fnx1gz_z7ng80000gn/T/par-porten/cache-5a7f3069e2a4d51fd3557003fc55ec74c554c947//inc/lib/Biber/LaTeX/recode_data.xml not found in . Compilation failed in require at Biber/Utils.pm line 21. BEGIN failed–compilation aborted at Biber/Utils.pm [...]

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Running WindowTester Pro from Maven/Tycho

Running SWTBot tests as part of your maven/tycho build cycle is rather well documented and pretty straight forward (see for example the sonatype docs). Doing so with a WindowTester Pro recorded test is not – but then again it is pretty straigt forward as well. There are just two things that you need to change [...]

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Running Tycho in Jenkins/Hudson

Jenkins Configuration

When I first started running my Tycho/Maven build of my visual editor in Jenkins the build would always fail if a single test failed. That was mainly because the Maven build would run the surefire test automatically but cancel the build if there were any failures in them. In turn, this would not keep artifacts [...]

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Somebody That I Used to Know – Walk off the Earth (Gotye – Cover) – YouTube

I rarely share anything other then tech-stuff, but this cover of Gotye’s No. 1 single “Somebody that I used to know” is just great. Somebody That I Used to Know – Walk off the Earth (Gotye – Cover) – YouTube.

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