Mmm, software

Here's a quick list for running multiple Tomcat 6 instances on Ubuntu 10.04 : Copy the /etc/init.d/tomcat script with a new name in the ...

I've recently come across a case where I need to drop all the tables in my database (ie effectively truncate the database) but MySQL has...

I've found that sometimes, I just need a quick and dirty copy of a database to test changes against, and it doesn't matter if the da...

I know that there's a lot of great, wonderful things that can be done on-the-fly through SSH. It's one of the greatest tools out th...

Our company uses log files in our machines to log raw data in real-time so that we have a history of what's happened on jobs that can be...

One of the software engineers I've worked with in the past has a very different way of doing things. He will take the most expedient wa...

In both my current job and my past jobs, I've worked with CSV files in Microsoft Excel as a matter of necessity. Excel is just too usef...

Today I went to Google (as I do most days) to search for some stuff, but today when I got there, I was greeted with a horrible looking backg...

There are two different schools of thought when it comes to being a vendor of very large software used by millions of people : Move your sof...

I've recently been working with a lot of embedded systems via telnet, and I'll frequently forget to disconnect my session before phy...

At work, like most other organizations, we have a Linux server that we access via SSH. However, lately, I've found my use of it skyrock...

... if you use SSH to move between machines a lot. Which I do. I have several machines that I work on regularly, and a centralized develop...

Lately I've been doing a lot of embedded development with Linux, and copying files between systems has been a bit of a pain. Fortunately...

Apparently, as of Windows Vista and later, Windows no longer supports multiple video cards that don't use the same driver !! Why ? I us...

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() ...