Apache poi cheat sheet

Busy Developers' Guide to HSSF and XSSF Features

Override local repo location in maven on command line

-Dmaven.repo.local=C:\mydir

hiding a row in gxt grid

Attach a GridViewConfig to the grid, overidding with an impl. that returns a css style of 'hide'.

Define hide in stylesheet as display:none

Faster sts startup

1/ Disable RSS feeds
Preferences -> Spring -> Dashboard (just delete the entries in the textbox)

2/ Disable maven update on startup
Preferences-> Download repo index updates on startup.