Moved to bitbucket

I’ve been using Git Enterprise for hosting private repositories since github’s free plan doesn’t include any private repos. Git enterprise’s worked – but the UI leads a lot to be desired the few times that you actually have to use the web interface. So the other day while doing something else, I landed on bitbucket [...]

Unit testing Apache CXF RESTful services – code available

So, the original post on the topic written about two and a half years ago had code snippets, but there’s been comments and PMs for the complete code. So last week, as I resurrected this blog, decided to get that code out on github. Unfortunately, that was easier said than done; it has been quite [...]

Fun with python’s decorators

Was in need of a utility function that can retry an arbitrary function a few times before giving up. Essentially something like Gmail or Google Readers behavior when there’s no network connection. Thought it would be a few minutes job to cook up a decorator utility in Python. Boy! was I wrong! I mean, the [...]