Mmm, software

I've recently begun using Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 more and more as I have increasing amounts of work that require .NET. In order to k...

Recently I had been having trouble with queries on a certain table in a system that I've been maintaining. I had gone through just abou...

Recently our production system's servers have been getting progressively slower, and it has finally gotten to the point where it's m...

As I've previously mentioned on this blog, our company uses Ubuntu for our servers. I won't re-iterate the reasons why in this post...

Further to my last post, it seems there was another, larger underlaying problem that was causing the exceptionally high number of connection...

Our company recently started a new project. Our primary client is the first one to use it, and use they have. I've suspected they'...

Today I ran into a strange error trying to access a webservice via Spring WS (Spring Web Services). The exception looked like the following...

Further to my previous post on SFTP jails, I've run across a few issues. When logging in via command line after first setting up the j...

Spring AOP is incredibly powerful. One of the most powerful features of the framework is that it lets you intercept methods that are decora...

...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...