I’ve been plowing through Maven2 & Weblogic at work recently, in an attempt to get an EJB/MDB & EAR deployed for testing out JMS. I would often hit the following errors when deploying an App in Weblogic 9.2: Unable to access the selected application. Exception in AppMerge flows’ progression Baffled, I almost gave up – [...]
Quick update regarding Ant TODO: there’s now a JAR available for download, so you can get it running even quicker!
December 31, 2009 – 15:58
I often felt the need to scratch an itch when it comes to source code and a little fragment called //TODO. It’s scattered everywhere; I’m sure you’ve seen it. Yet no matter what codebase you’re looking at, there’s never any real exposure to them. I therefore decided to implement an Ant Task for parsing TODOs [...]
December 15, 2009 – 22:55
If you want to use the Sky Songs download client in Linux (say Ubuntu or Debian), just paste the following into a file called skysongs in $HOME/bin and then chmod a+x it: cd $SKY_SONGS_DIR; /usr/bin/java -cp . -jar downloader.jar $* Note, $SKY_SONGS_DIR should be changed to your installation directory. If you used wine to install [...]
September 3, 2009 – 18:45
So every year I learn a new language. It’s fun, insightful and leaves me feelin’ a fresh for new challenges in my new found religion. This time round I’ve been learning Common LISP and now Scala. Being a Java programmer professionally it makes sense to try the latter. I love the idea of it being [...]
November 30, 2008 – 21:49
I came across the need to disable logging (debug) for a specific package in Apache Log4j today whilst coding. It’s simple. All you need to do is precede the package name, e.g. net.beplacid, with log4j.logger and follow that with “=LEVEL”, where ‘level’ is one of TRACE, DEBUG, INFO, WARN, ERROR and FATAL – the standard [...]
September 3, 2007 – 15:42
I’ve been a professional programmer for over three years now. I have worked on projects both large and small, ranging from Java Web Services to Perl-CGI, J2EE web sites and JavaScript prototyping. I can say that i’m experienced enough to know how to approach most aspects of the programming-industry and work related issues. This said, [...]
