Mmm, software

...via RPC over HTTPS : 1. Ensure you have your root certificate in your trusted authority store in the Microsoft Management Console (mmc.ex...

So I finally got a working VPN configuration to be able to connect my shiny new MacBook Pro to our VPN on our production system which uses a...

I recently managed to convince my employer to provide me with a MacBook Pro so that I could start developing in-house iPhone applications fo...

I had previously written on an Expected positional parameter glitch in Hibernate when joining between entities using OneToOne and PrimaryKey...

Recently, I found that our secondary server's MySQL partition was starting to get full. After running du -h --max-depth=1 several times...

As I recently found out after a marathon debugging session, if you have a <transition> element that executes actions, and any beans in...

I've recently discovered the joy of actually getting OneToOne primary key columns on objects working, so I've started using them mor...

I've recently been finding myself looking for a way to get Hibernate to override the default type for strings (varchar) and use char ins...

I have recently discovered the magic that is Dojo. I love it. The widgets that it provides are uber-useful and have really boosted the fun...

I have several pieces of code in one of our company's projects that dynamically reads the classpath and scans for classes that have cert...

...is recommended against in the MySQL documentation, but it can be oh so handy for running scripts and adding databases, tables and views w...

...is really easy. Run the command : apt-get install -y mysql-server Once that's done, you'll need to perform some additional confi...

Ubuntu is usually pretty good about coming pre-configured with everything you need for your system, but one thing I've found that it...

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...