Month: November 2007
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Don’t like people leeching your wireless?
Don’t just block them, get a little more creative…. http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pete/upside-down-ternet.html Enjoy:)
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How to identify the process listening on a port
This is mostly for own use, but: If you’ve ever had a server which netstat showed was listening on one or more ports you weren’t expecting, you can use this command to find out which process is listening there: fuser -vn tcp 4444 Which in this case happens to be owned by JBoss, and not…
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Snakes in the desert
I spent most of last week in Las Vegas on a vacation/late-anniversary-trip. It was wonderful. I hadn’t had a real vacation in over a year so it was long overdue. Somehow we managed to get upgraded to First Class on the flights there and back. We stayed at our favorite Vegas hotel, THEhotel at Mandalay…
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Update on 10 Minute Mail problems
As you know if you’ve been following my blog, 10MinuteMail starting dying with OutOfMemory errors seemly randomly. Sometimes it would happen after 2 days of uptime, sometimes after a week. I ran load tests and profilers but could not reproduce the issue. On the upside I can say that the 10 Minute Mail application can…
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10MinuteMail upgraded again
Moved up to Seam 2.0 CR3, and JBoss 4.2.2. I also optimized some code, got rid of some useless error logging, etc… Hopefully it will perform a little better:) So far it seems to process incoming e-mail much faster, which was a bottleneck under load. Enjoy!
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Quartz Scheduling and Seam (part 1)
I am working on a new application, which will require some scheduled jobs. I used EJB3 Timers in 10MinuteMail, but now Seam includes and uses Quartz, an open source scheduling system. So I figured I’d try the new hotness. So far, it’s been a rough road, and I’m not 100% up and running yet (hence…