Using the Jobs API (Job and IProgressMonitor) you can implement code that will run in a thread and update the standard Eclipse progress monitoring service…
I liked Mambo, but it takes a lot to maintain, and I don’t really use all the features. So I decided to move the site…
Continuous interruptions temporarily do more damage to your train of thought than smoking mind-altering substances, according to The Institute of Psychiatry at King’s college London.…
The CSP for Java Programmers series on developerWorks teaches us how to work with Communicating Sequential Processes, a framework on top of Java’s threading library…
A little class to retrieve a random line from a file.
Every once in a while you will get a query that no matter what you try, it doesn’t use the indices. This is typically because…
In order to make queries run faster, you should try to have oracle explain to you how the query should be performed. The whole explanation…
To activate socket debugging in java, add the following to java_opts: -Xdebug -Xnoagent -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,address=8787,server=y,suspend=n Then connect to port 8787 using your favorite debugging tool..
To set username and password on weblogic, add the following to JAVA_OPTS: -Dweblogic.management.username=system -Dweblogic.management.password=weblogic (or whatever the new passwords are)..
The Pragmatic Programmers have a great article called Cook Until Done, about the different ways you need to convey instructions, making it difficult to get…