Mmm, software

JAXB (the Java API for XML Binding) is a great piece of technology (2.x, not 1.x). However, if you're starting an application and your ...

Pure FTP is a great FTP server and I love it because it's ridiculously fast, reliable and works well for our company. The only problem ...

I recently ran across a problem with receiving a LinkageError in one of my web applications. The problem occurred when Acegi security tried...

In recent weeks, we've had problems with our company's servers going down because of power problems at our colocation provider. As ...

It's well documented in the Java API as well as numerous forums and blogs, that the Java API is not properly implemented, and in some re...

Since I learned about accesskey support in HTML, I've been including them where appropriate in my web applications to speed up my access...

My recent foray into developing using RESTful principles and resources has lead me to an interesting quirk in the Spring Framework, which I ...

With the advent of popular and widespread Maven 2 adoption, there's no reason you shouldn't be using it to build your open-source or...

For those not in the know, schemagen is a program that comes as part of the Java Web Services Developer Pack and it's used to generated ...

In the default installation of Ubuntu Server (Gutsy Gibbon), the default source of packages is the CD-ROM drive. That's fine if you mak...

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 ...