Author: Edwin Kwan

History of Skype and Microsoft Acquisition

Something interesting on Skype. From conception to acquisition by Microsoft. Skype’s an interesting company to follow, founded in 2003. Purchased by eBay in 2005 and sold in 2009. And recently acquired by Microsoft for $8.5 billion, which means they paid $1,000 for each user. Making many wonder if Microsoft overpaid for Skype.

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Maven: run mvn package without doing test

When you run the mvn package command, as part of the build cycle, Maven will compile and test the code before packaging it in its distributable format.

However there are times when you want to compile and package the code without running the test. While I don’t advocate shipping untested code, there can be a number of reasons why you want to package the code without running test.

In order to perform mvn package without running the test. You need to use the argument -Dmaven.test.skip=true

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