Mmm, software

Because we have very limited space on some embedded devices that we use that run Perl, we can only store a very few modules on these systems...

A long time ago, in a job far, far away, I had to deal with some Perl. I learned just enough to get me by for the duration of the task at h...

I recently ran into some old quirks when provisioning a new server for our company's web applications on Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex). B...

A simple one-liner : mysqldump -u root -p mydatabasename --no-data=true --add-drop-table=false > test_dump.sql With this command, you...

In one of the projects on which I contract, we recently started encountering a problem importing and parsing text record files into our syst...

When testing some custom XML serialization I was writing for a project, I ran across a quirk of the XmlWriter created by XmlWriter#Create() ...

I recently ran across a problem where I was trying to debug some code and the Visual Studio debugger wouldn't stop in my class. It woul...

For about the last 8 or 9 hours (spread across two days) I've been troubleshooting a styling issue in WPF. I have a list of items that ...

In my last job, I frequently made use of the JAXB library provided with the Java SDK for object de/serialization. I chose to generate my sc...

Now that I've started having to do a lot more documenting for my job, I've found myself importing a lot of pictures taken as steps i...

I've recently begun a new job, and with it has come a whole new segment of the software development universe. The new job uses a lot of...

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...