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No Spam Today
Huh, tricked you. As if! However I was looking at my Akismet Spam section in WordPress , the open source software that runs my blog, and it gave me this message.
Read moreThe RAT and the CAT
No, it’s not a bedtime story, is a serious system’s design concept and I’m amazing that people don’t know about this. As I mentioned in If you don’t know your data, you don’t know your application I was doing a Java Code Review, and I found a clear case of a much simplier solution.
Read moreIf you don’t know your data, you don’t know your application.
The art of data modelling is definitely lost on some [most] people, or they never found it, even though they think they did. Over dinner with good friend Morgan last night we were swapping present stories on the topic.
Read moreBecome named in Firefox 2
So, FireFox have come up with a novel idea to promote it’s product. Check out Firefox Day. The official blurb: Share Firefox with a friend. If your friend downloads Firefox before September 15, you’ll both be immortalized in Firefox 2.
Read moreWebsites – Meebo
WebSite: www.meebo.com If you use Instant Message (IM), but can’t use within an environment, do it via the web. Way Cool
Read morePride
I’ve recently completed a contract and I’ve been in discussions with agents and other employers for further work. Having had one of the worse experiences in my previous work, I’ve been extra careful to ensure what I’m told at the interview/meeting stage is indeed true and accurate (in my last case it was not).
Read moreTroubleshooting Wireless Connections (under Windoze)
Router Configuration In order to enable wireless you will most probably have a Wireless Router that is managing your Internet Connection (via cable or DSL), Each router is different, however they generally all have a web interface to access them, the Netgear and DLink routers seems to have generally moved to http://192.
Read moreCompiling MySQL Tutorial 2 – Directly from the source
Should you want to be on the bleeding edge, or in my case, don’t want to download 70MB each day in a daily snapshot (especially when I’m getting build errors), you can use Bit Keeper Free Bit Keeper Client that at least lets you download the MySQL Repository.
Read moreCompiling MySQL Tutorial 1 – The Baseline – Update
Just to confirm my earlier confusion about verified snapshots at Compiling MySQL Tutorial 1 – The Baseline . “Daily snapshot sources are only published, if they compiled successfully (using the BUILD/compile-pentium-debug-max script) and passed the test suite (using make test).
Read moreCompiling MySQL Tutorial 1 – The Baseline
Pre-requisites This tutorial is aimed at Linux installations that has the standard development tools already installed. The INSTALL file in the source archives provides good details of the software required (e.
Read moreEclipse CVS Tutorial 2
Following on from my earlier Eclipse CVS Tutorial 1 . Decorators The following options define what is presented in the Navigator View at the project, directory and file levels. Window | Preferences General | Appearance | Label Decorations Team | CVS Team | CVS | Label Decorations | Text Decorations NOTE: There is a Mercurial Eclipse option under the top level menu in Window | Preferences.
Read moreSecuring a Tomcat Webapp – Part 2
If you wish to password protect your webapp with an Apache .htaccess type authentication model, you require two configuration steps. The first within your WEB-INF/web.xml, add the following replacing rolename appropiately.
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