Script to view a jars transitive dependencies

Very often when I'm programming in Java, I need to see the dependencies for a particular jar file. If you are working in a project using a build tool like Maven or SBT, it's quite trivial to dump out a

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Calculating SHA 512 in Scala

I'm calculating SHA-512 checksum's for video files that will be registered with a custom video asset manager that I wrote. Checksum's are useful fingerprints for identifying a file. In my case the checksums are useful for doing reverse look ups;

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TextMate and iTerm2 v3

If you upgrade to the latest beta of iTerm (v3-ish), you will find that the iTerm support in TextMate is broken. i.e. Trying to launch an interactive shell from TextMate will fail. I wrote up a little bit of AppleScript

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iTerm2 version 3 Open iTerm Here Script

I just got a notice that iTerm2 has new major upcoming release (v. 3). I upgraded but found that the AppleScript dialect that iTerm used has changed. This change broke my handy little script that launches iTerm from a Finder

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