Category: General
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Top Ten Tools
I was surfing around today, and saw this article about the top ten tools you use. As far as getting work done on the computer (I’m taking the computer for granted and not counting it as a tool, although for it all to come together it’s worth noting I use an Apple MacBookPro with 4GB…
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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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Post URI changes
I have just updated the permalink/URI scheme for this blog to be more searchable. Therefore old links coming in may be broken. Hopefully a quick scan or search will help you find what you are looking for. Thanks! Devon
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Home Backups
I just setup some bash scripts leveraging rsync and triggered via cron to not only keep my external hard-drives backed up to their relative backups, but also to keep my wife’s laptop (MacBook) backed up to an external drive attached to my desktop (PowerMac). /usr/bin/backup:#!/bin/bash rsync /Users/emma/ -avz -e ssh ‘[email protected]:/Volumes/MBP\ Backup/tongari/Users/emma/’ rsync /Applications/ -avz…
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Java One ’07
I went to my first Java One this year. I was shocked by the sheer size of the event. Thousands upon thousands of people in the Moscone Center. Each session typically held hundreds of people. I wish the sessions had been a little smaller and a little more personal, but I think with the size…
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Server Move
I’ve just moved to a new, bigger, faster, better server. There were some transitional pains, but I think things are pretty solid now. If you had any issues with this site or with 10 Minute Mail, you have my apologies. Now we have room to grow.