Month: September 2007
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Use Emacs to edit compressed .ear and .war files
If you’re like me, you’ve often found yourself needing to change a setting, or view some information, buried deep inside a .ear or .war or .sar file. Well, you probably know that emacs can handle looking inside and editing files within a .tar or .jar file. Since .ear and .war files are just .jar files…
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Another small 10MinuteMail.com update
I just pushed up the latest version of 10MinuteMail. Now there are 29 languages supported! I’ve also upgraded the Seam version to 2.0.0.CR1 and the JBoss version to 4.2.1.GA. I am hoping that this will help fix some of the recent OutOfMemory issues I’ve seen. Check it out, tell your friends, link to it, enjoy…
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ATG Dynamo – back to basics
I worry that ATG has mis-focused it’s energy. In the last few years, ATG has introduced (or purchased) a number of new products which sit on the existing stack. Ticketing Features, Search, Merchandising, Campaign Optimizer, Knowledge, Self Service, Response Management, Commerce Service Center, Outreach, and Customer Intelligence). I haven’t had a chance to play with…
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Car trouble and good friends
I drove my friend Gordon downtown to pick up his new Ducati. On my way home, my car died suddenly about a mile from home. It would start, idle roughly, and die at any touch of the gas pedal. I couldn’t even limp it a few feet. I called AAA, and waited, and waited, and…
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How to block an IP in Linux
I run Debian on my server, and I often find that my server is being attacked by other computers. Brute force SSH attacks, viruses scanning for the ability to spread, things like that. I’ll go into the SSH brute force defenses in a later post, but for now I’ll cover how to easily block an…
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Canadia
I just returned home from four days in Vancouver, BC. I went up in order to meet with the tech lead on my project at work, and get some face time working on the design and development tasks for the next phase of the project. First I want to say that it is weird, but…