Mmm, software

...is easier than you actually think. I managed to get a working domain name for our company's servers going using tutorials and informa...

SFTP jails are uber useful and I've blogged about them before, but one crucial piece of information that I've been missing has been ...

Ok, so for a while, I've had an SFTP jail setup within our company for our clients to connect and dump batch files to our systems. It l...

It's pretty rare that I have something to blog about within a couple days of each other, never mind on the same day, so I suppose that t...

<rant> As the title of this post states, if you're a web developer, use a fucking DTD. They exist for a reason, that reason being...

Yes, these things are cliche, but whatever, screw it. Dear Apple, In case you haven't figured it out from my buying patterns, I've s...

Given changes in the environment in which our business does it's business, I've had to start learning to use SQL Server and various ...

It's been a while since I've written a blog post, and I figured this was a good topic to write about. For the most part, I don'...

Subversion is a great tool, but unfortunately it has to store metadata somewhere, and like all other code repository tools, it stores them i...

An idea for resolving the logging issues in Tomcat just occurred to me. I should probably be putting the logging jars in the individual lib...

Ok, so after Eclipse Europa (3.3) has been out for quite some time, I decided to give it a try. I was shocked to discover a lot of the chan...

As my application has been growing more and more in functionality, it has also been growing in its memory footprint. To that end, I've ...

Ok, so after Googling around and hours of patient command line testing (yeah, I know, it's horrible, you don't have to tell me) I ma...

Ok, I let my obsessions get the better of me and I couldn't drop it : I kept searching the interwebs until I had found a solution for my...

I didn't even notice it until today that it's the one year anniversary of this blog. Actually, the anniversary was two days ago, but...

My recent foray into developing Maven plugins has led me to a horrible discovery : the Maven developers ... suck. They're just not prof...

I recently found myself developing (and using) a lot of small tag libraries to make my life easier when it comes to developing my web applic...

A quick note on Java enums : I discovered today that not only can enums have methods (which is exceedingly useful to begin with), but that y...

Recently, I discovered the joy of the PropertyEditorRegistrar interface in the Springframework, for conveniently registering property editor...

I love RSS, I think it's a great way to read the news and generally stay up to date on any sites you read and any (legit) torrents you m...