Mmm, software

While trying to add a recent update to our systems, I noticed that our demo system wouldn't start, which was very strange considering I ...

I've recently found myself having a lot of jobs running in the background of our Java applications, often requiring changes to the sched...

I just recently found out about the 'show processlist' command in MySQL that lets you get a resultset of all the processes MySQL is ...

I've recently found the need to change a bunch of passwords in MySQL. The command to do it is as follows : SET PASSWORD FOR 'myuser...

I was recently updating our production system when I noticed that our main MySQL database was going unusually hard. On a quad-core processo...

...was relatively painless. At least in the very small app that I'm currently working on as a helper application for dealing with one o...

In an effort to keep our applications current, I've been looking at upgrading from Acegi Security to Spring Security 2 in one of our sma...

Hibernate UserTypes are a great way for persisting complex classes which may require more than one column in a table in order to be properly...

I recently started researching how to create Ruby Gems because I was working on on a Ruby application that is a reference application for ac...

I've learned a bunch of new things about Ruby on Rails in the past few days, specifically when it comes to RESTful web services. ActiveR...

I've recently had to go abroad to various other countries for work, and I've found that porting my projects around to various worksp...

I've recently gotten started going on a Ruby on Rails project for my company, that's meant to be a simple app that we'll throw u...

I had a moment today where I was just letting my mind wander. It was one of those moments where you have a brilliant idea that just seems s...

Today I ran across yet more quirks of JAXB 2.0. I'm getting really tired of running across stupid errors that are difficult to debug be...

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...