Download sources jar from maven

We use Maven, when Maven downloads dependencies it doesn't download sources, which I rely on when learn and debug programs....
I was expecting, for what seem a simple thing to me, a flag that I can add in maven's settings files or an option to pass to mvn command.... but I couldn't find the solution (or anything close to it). Don't get me wrong, there are solutions out there, but I just feel it is too much hassle for the task.

So I wrote a little script that go thru my repo and downloads any jar that doesn't have its respective sources :p

ImageMagick and JPEG on OSX

I am not a fan of port or fink so I always install ImageMagick from source.

Recently I came across a problem where ImageMagick fails to identify JPEG's.

The error looks something like this

identify: no decode delegate for this image format

After some digging around it appears I need to install libjpeg and reinstall ImageMagick for JPEG support.

So I downloaded jpegsrc.v7.tar.gz and just run thru the standard configure, make & make install then reinstalled ImageMagick.

After the installation you should be able to see JPEG as one of the supported format via the command "identify -list format".

It should contain something like this.

JPEG* JPEG rw- Joint Photographic Experts Group JFIF format (70)