October 2008 Archives

Tomcat character enconding UTF-8

Posted by Edmund Haselwanter on Oct 09, 2008
Tags: java, tomcat

As with EVERY project sooner or later I encounter character encoding problems. This time everything seemed to be ok. UTF-8 settings everywhere I can think of. Did I miss something? Continue Reading…

Howto fork a repo on github and submit patches to the author

Posted by Edmund Haselwanter on Oct 08, 2008
Tags: git, github

It’s really easy. Some Documentation can be found at

http://github.com/guides/fork-a-project-and-submit-your-modifications
http://github.com/guides/changing-your-origin
http://railsontherun.com/2008/3/3/how-to-use-github-and-submit-a-patch

  1. click on the fork button on github
  2. clone it from there
  3. add the old origin as e.g. upstream
  4. make the changes
  5. push to own repo
  6. klick on the pull request button.

now that is community developing. great stuff

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