An old PC used as an A2DP bluetooth receiver

Works for me with Linux Mint 12.

The tutorials I found explain the part where we must add

Enable=Source
in /etc/bluetooth/audio.conf

but I had a hard time to figure out that I had to modify /etc/pulse/default.pa and add
load-module module-switch-on-connect
load-module module-loopback

else the sink/source are not automatically connected.

Tapestry conversion to Gradle

One more high profile open source project migrating from Maven to Gradle.

Experience of Déjà vu ?

Beyond Red/Green/Refactor

Michael Feathers' post Making Too Much Of TDD. A must read.

Doubt

"Someone's intelligence can be measured by the quantity of uncertainties that he can bear" Immanuel Kant

Java Posse Podcast #314 all about Scala

Once again, plenty of interesting things, this time all about Scala (not about Java)

During the podcast several people said that it was a very bad idea to try to learn Scala using Lift as a training material because it is way too functional for a beginner (in the functional programming acception of the term)

Well, maybe I should try Lift now, to check if I begin to understand functional programming in general, and in especialy in Scala.

Hibernate build infrastructure switching from Maven to Gradle

In the world of build tools this is big news : Steve Ebersole announced that he wanted to migrate from Maven to Gradle for the Hibernate project. A list of reasons is given for the switch (and I utterly understand what they mean).

Well, it is a very good incentive to try Gradle (and really Groovy + Ivy is a very enticing combination).

Convert M4A/AAC file to and from WAV file on Linux

May be useful to create M4A/ACC files for phone ringtones, use faad and faac command line utilities :

• faad foo.aac creates a foo.wav file
• faac foo.wav create a foo.acc file