Java, JavaEE, J2EE, WebLogic, WebSphere, JBoss, Tomcat, Oracle, Spring, Maven, Architecture, Design, Mentoring, Instructor and Agile Consulting. http://www.baselogic.com/blog/resumeI just spent quite a bit of time trying to get Buildr to work on Ruby. I started with 1.9 but that did not work. All my team was using 1.8.7, but on Mac. So I started...
Author - Mick Knutson
Upgrading PHP: I started down this path: but found that I kept getting dependency conflicts: I finally came across this forum posting: but this still came up...
Development, System Administration
Creating a mysqldump of a MySql database with on-the-fly gzip compression
I am always amazed at some of the small things that I think would be easy to find a solution for, seem so ellusive. Today, I needed to run a quick mysqldump of a 100MB...
I am still so happy that WordPress is still so easy to upgrade. I did mine today in 5 minutes as stated.
I wish all my upgrades where this easy.
Recently I ran into issues where a web application running on Tomcat 6.0 was crashing due to load spikes in requests. What I noticed in the diagrams below, was there was...
I have an External configuration file (${appName}-config.groovy) that I wanted to have a global URL declaration such as: Then what I wanted was to use these globally in...
I just wanted to relay my thoughts, experiences, and lessons learned on my road to getting Sun Certified as an SCJP 6 Java Programmer. First off, I have been working...
I spent the better part of my day trying to solve an issue where I construct a named configuration property, then I wanted to get that property from the config object...
I have been trying to create an inner class instance of a Spring constructor argument and have been looking at the Grails documentation that states Constructor arguments...
I was tasked to implement read timeouts in my Spring webservices. I need to be able to implement this on dozens of webservices fairly easy and be maintainable. I also...
