Removing a Stripped Stainless Steel Screw

Well, if you made the mistake of putting decking down with stainless steel screws like I did, you may have run into this issue before. Either you didn't drill a decent pilot hole, or it was getting to be too hot, and you were in a rush, it doesn't matter. The bottom line is that …

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Click event slow in Chrome and Safari

Well, I came across an interesting quirk. Click events in Chrome and Safari were taking a couple of seconds before they were being fired. It was quite the head scratcher. Here's essentially what I was doing: At first, I just changed the <a> tag to be a <span> tag, and that worked. But, I couldn't …

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How to inject two or more dependencies with the same name

Let's say you have two services named UserService and both are included in your Grails classpath. This can happen, for example if you have a "core" package, and an "application" package that extends services from "core". Here's what that might look like in our case: Well, if you try to use "UserService" in your Grails …

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The birds are back in town

It was a nice day today. Walking around the Como Lake, we saw all sorts of birds coming back from migration. There were loons, coots, mallards, and gulls. The red-winged blackbirds were in full chorus. One of the coolest things was a mature bald eagle that surprised us overhead. We stopped walking to take a …

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