Mmm, software

If you're like me, you like to have your Windows Live Messenger conversation windows be as simple and clean as possible, with no toolbar...

The command : Remove-Item -recurse -force [directory name] The really sad thing is that I googled this and there are no sites that explicitl...

In case you're not familiar, JAXB (Java API for Xml Binding) is an API developed by Sun for binding between XML and Java beans. The fir...

It's been a while since I've posted to the blog 'cause I've been so busy, and it seems fitting that this be a good way to re...

At our company, we use Ubuntu to run our servers. Sure, there's other distributions with potentially better performance, but none so ea...

I ran into the following exception recently when moving an application from one server to another : java.lang.NullPointerException at com.m...

I recently had a problem with Commons VFS whereby I could log into an FTP server and list the contents of the initial directory, but no cont...

Like the title of this post says, software developers are arrogant assholes. I can say that because I am one. The reason I say this is tha...

...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 ...