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AlBlue

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

https://alblue.bandlem.com

Eclipse guru, Mac OS X enthusiast, and occasional fair weather pilot. Former co-founder of the Docklands.LJC Java community in and around the Docklands, and author at InfoQ. Currently a Director at Bandlem Limited.

Follow me on Twitter at @alblue, or visit my blog at alblue.bandlem.com. I have specific tags for Swift, OSGi, Java, Git and Eclipse.

I have written two books on Eclipse and one on Swift:

Eclipse 4 Plug-in Development: Beginner's Guide (Second Edition) (GitHub repository)

Mastering Eclipse Plug-in Development (GitHub repository)

Swift Essentials (Second Edition) (GitHub repository)

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Top Questions
370 votes

How do I recompile Bash to avoid Shellshock (the remote exploit CVE-2014-6271 and CVE-2014-7169)?

osx security bash asked Sep 24, 2014 at 18:35
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193 votes

What's the best practice for naming Swift files that add extensions to existing objects?

ios objective-c swift xcode asked Oct 11, 2014 at 21:54
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55 votes

When should I use Import-Package and when should I use Require-Bundle?

osgi asked Dec 8, 2009 at 9:36
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50 votes

Is there some literal dictionary or array syntax in Objective-C?

objective-c llvm clang objective-c-literals asked Mar 13, 2012 at 23:14
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30 votes

How frequently should I create an EntityManager?

java jpa entitymanager asked Nov 19, 2010 at 13:56
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25 votes

Why is Sun inventing another module system when everyone has standardised on OSGi?

java module osgi jigsaw asked Dec 7, 2009 at 9:50
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18 votes

How do I synthesize sounds with CoreAudio on iPhone/Mac

iphone objective-c cocoa core-audio asked Sep 1, 2009 at 8:00
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12 votes

What's new in OSGi 4.2?

java osgi asked Sep 16, 2009 at 18:37
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7 votes

How can I calculate the thumbprint of an OpenID Connect server?

amazon-web-services jwt openid-connect github-actions asked Sep 19, 2021 at 22:22
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5 votes

Can you use ADFS single sign on with AWS to pre-choose an account and/or role?

amazon-web-services adfs asked Jan 29, 2021 at 16:36
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Top Answers
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How do I recompile Bash to avoid Shellshock (the remote exploit CVE-2014-6271 and CVE-2014-7169)?
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Current time in microseconds in java
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154
What's wrong with Java Date & Time API?
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114
Is there some literal dictionary or array syntax in Objective-C?
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94
How to write lambda methods in Objective-C?
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67
Changing tab bar font in Swift
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51
What's causing all the disk activity on OS X?
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43
git stash apply @stash{x} not working for me
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36
Swift: Make button trigger segue to new scene
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25
With vim, how can I use autocmd's for files in subdirectories of a specific path?
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24
What exactly does -XX:-TieredCompilation do?
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19
What is the advantage of using git submodules over having a repo inside another repo with a gitignore?
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19
Poll: What is stopping you from switching (from Java) to Scala?
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19
Refactoring C/C++ in Vim (e.g. method extraction like in Eclipse)
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18
Git notes details
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Declaring variables in swift
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15
How can I connect GitHub actions with AWS deployments without using a secret key?
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14
Which has better Eclipse support: git or Mercurial
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13
Why launch.xib containing image is not appearing in ios 7 simulators and works perfectly in ios 8 simulators
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12
What's new in OSGi 4.2?
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How to annotate Objective-C APIs for use in Swift (e.g. return types)
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11
How can I calculate the thumbprint of an OpenID Connect server?
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11
Disadvantages of shallow cloning on Travis and other CI services?
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How to express inter project dependencies in Eclipse PDE
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10
Creating objects makes the VM faster?
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9
How do you change the state of the window close button in Cocoa?
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8
What is included in JCenter repository in Gradle?
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8
UTF-8 not supported message from logging subsystem, Fuse ESB 4.4
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Objective-C dictionary inserting a BOOL
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Is `java -cp` simply an abbreviation for `java -classpath`?
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