Archive for the ‘java’ Category

mvnrepository.com down?

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

Anyone else having trouble with this site?  Haven't been able to query the maven repo since friday?  Are there any other decent search sites for maven?

Struts2 maven broken

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

[INFO] artifact org.apache.struts:struts2-sitemesh-plugin: checking for updates from central[WARNING] An error occurred during dependency resolution of the following artifact:    org.apache.struts:struts2-sitemesh-pluginnullCaused by: Couldn't find a version in [2.0.11.1] to match range [2.0.11,)  org.apache.struts:struts2-sitemesh-plugin:jar:nullIs this a maven problem or a struts2 problem with the release artifact

OpenProj — need to make now of

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

OpenProj is a free, open source project management solution. OpenProj is a complete replacement of Microsoft Project and other commercial project solutions.

Struts 2’s missing configuration tag

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

Originally, I was looking for something that allowed me to refer to the package name from using the wildcard syntax. This would allow me to template out my crud actions using a concise configuration and follow my pattern of development with zero-config/annonations did not. With that not in place ...

Can’t find a decent open source java based wiki

Monday, January 7th, 2008

I admit, early on in the process, the bar was set pretty high with Jive's Clearspace. Honestly I think it is awesome. Great layout, multiple wiki spaces, personal blogs, forums, polls, LDAP authenication and killer intergation with openfire chat server.However Clearspace is not open source and its ...

What do you use to monitor Tomcat?

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

Currently take a look at Lambda ProbeSeems to be pretty nice, though we have run into a couple problems while running it under an IBM box under a IBM 5.0 JVM.  I'm curious what else is out there and also open source.

Terrible web programming @Dishnetwork

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

IE specific hacks.

try not to hardcode log4j configurations

Sunday, September 2nd, 2007

Around work, I've seen applications where there are several log4j configurations checked in along side each other(dev, test, prod).  Often, the only differences are location of where the log files go.  A better solution would not require, .war files to be re-built in order to only change log file destinations.  Log4J will interpret variables given to ...

Example of the crap people try to sell for windows

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

WebDrivehttp://www.southrivertech.com/purchase/wdpricing.htmlFor 59.95, you too can have a copy of "webdrive" that allows you to map drive letters to sftp(ftp over ssh).That kind of stuff has been built into linux for years. sftp is one of the many kio slaves built into konqueror.I can't believe people pay for this kind ...

Gimp vs Photoshop

Monday, May 14th, 2007

Can photoshop to this.Anyway, thought that was kind of funny.