Downloading maven settings from nexus

mvn org.sonatype.plugins:nexus-maven-plugin:settings-download

http://www.sonatype.com/books/nexus-book/reference/settings-sect-downloading.html

eclipse vibrant ink search results headache

The Eclipse color theme plugin makes its simply to switch to the Vibrant Ink theme. However, when doing a search (eg. find references) highlighted matches are a little tricky to see! To change this:

General-->Editors-->Text Editors-->Annotations-->Search Results

(I just changed "Text as" to Squiggly Line)

Risk and tribal language / Counterparty Credit Risk

Whenever you start on a new project there's always a certain amount of tribal language to decode. A colleague of mine kept talking about a system that "calculates IRC". When I asked what IRC was, he didn't know....

Here's the best reference I found for developers looking to understand Counterparty Credit Risk. 

Auto create builder pattern code in eclipse

Looking at legacy code with lots of unwiedly constructors. Whilst mocking needing something to create all the boiler plate builder code and found this plugin that works with Juno too. http://code.google.com/p/bpep/