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UnixBench
A friend of mine wanted to see if his machine could beat the pants off my machine. I figured a pee-ing competition is always fun…
SOAP Response Codes
I recently had an issue where as a part of a SOAP fault response I wanted to return a HTML response code that better represented…
UUID and PostgreSQL
I often use UUID values as secondary identifiers for my domain objects. This is usually generated for my domain entity very simply as follows: java.util.UUID.randomUUID().toString();…
VirtualBox update woes
Not sure what happened here but upgrading from VirtualBox 3.x to 4.06 (with Oracle branding too – eek), killed a few of my VMs. First…
Apache 2.2.3-x with mod_jk
Running CentOS 5 on one of my personal (playpen) servers, i recently performed a simple yum update which brought in the package httpd-2.2.3-45.el5.centos.1.i386 and its…
Sign-Up and Login pages
Just read a great piece on login and sign-up page development. I have spent a ridiculous amount of time in the past on both of…
Favicon Builder
Recently fiddling with some favicon creation. I usually use The GIMP to do my image work including favicons but for whatever reason recently, one I…
Compiling a debian kernel for 2.6.29+
A recent [documented] change in the debian kernel-package effectively rendered the –initrd flag to a kernel build all but useless (a little harsh, i know)….
Building with Hudson
I’ve used a few build servers now including Continuum, CruiseControl and Bamboo. I recently started using Hudson and immediately found it easier to set up…