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Photo Journal for 3/14/2015

03/15/2015 Mark Jacobsen Leave a comment

The thing I like most when working with buyers is to find a home that doesn’t look like much from the outside, but when you walk in something like this beautiful sight hits you. Love the natural light. Love the floor to ceiling windows.

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Productivity

Outlook Email Snooze

03/13/2015 Mark Jacobsen Leave a comment

If you’ve gotten used to apps that allow you to snooze your email (have it disappear from your inbox until the date you specify and then reappear) I just found this page which appears to be the perfect solution for implementing in Outlook.

Basically it consists of creating a custom view of your inbox w/ 2 filters set. One for Due Date not existing and the other where Due Date is on or before “Today”.

Hit up the full post for step by step instructions and screen shots.

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Java

NullPointerException – could not publish to server

03/10/2015 Mark Jacobsen Leave a comment

Ok, so this is an obscure one, but if it saves anyone from multiple days of banging their head against the wall it’s worth it…

Recently I was working in eclipse, had created my component, compiled it, and had it pushed to our ivy repository. I then went to bring it into another (web) project when I started getting complaints about a NullPointerException. For kicks I tried running the web app and received the error “NullPointerException (could not publish to server)”. With all that useful information how could I not figure out what the problem was?

Fortunately another developer I spoke with had seen the issue before and pointed me in the right direction. In the utility component/jar you have to (see screen shot below too)…

Go to Project -> Properties
Click on “Project Facets”
Check “Utility Module”

And then it will just magically work. Wasn’t that completely obvious?

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Misc / Random, Photo Journal

Photo Journal for 3/8/2015

03/08/2015 Mark Jacobsen Leave a comment

Me and the infamous puke bucket got very familiar today. Can’t remember the last time I felt this lousy (don’t think I have at least in my adult life)