http://greybeardedgeek.net Random Thoughts Of A Middle-Aged Software Engineer Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:54:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 http://greybeardedgeek.net/2011/02/14/bash-completion-for-maven/ http://greybeardedgeek.net/2011/02/14/bash-completion-for-maven/#comments Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:54:47 +0000 greybeardedgeek http://greybeardedgeek.net/?p=586
Based on a blog post by John Hitchings on the WealthFront Engineering web site, I started looking into bash completion. As a Java developer, I use Maven from the command-line quite a bit, so I decided to add bash completion for the ‘mvn’ command. The following script works great on OS X, and should work [...]]]> http://greybeardedgeek.net/2011/02/14/bash-completion-for-maven/feed/ 4 http://greybeardedgeek.net/2010/12/06/running-multiple-instances-of-mule-3-0/ http://greybeardedgeek.net/2010/12/06/running-multiple-instances-of-mule-3-0/#comments Mon, 06 Dec 2010 21:19:15 +0000 greybeardedgeek http://greybeardedgeek.net/?p=580
I’m working on some Mule services, with the new 3.0.1 version, and need to run multiple instances of Mule on the same physical server. With Mule 2.x, this was done by running the provided setup_local_instance.sh script to copy some of the Mule directories, and then using the MULE_BASE environment variable to point to the new [...]]]> http://greybeardedgeek.net/2010/12/06/running-multiple-instances-of-mule-3-0/feed/ 0 http://greybeardedgeek.net/2010/11/15/deploying-services-to-mule-with-maven-mule-plugin/ http://greybeardedgeek.net/2010/11/15/deploying-services-to-mule-with-maven-mule-plugin/#comments Tue, 16 Nov 2010 03:51:50 +0000 greybeardedgeek http://greybeardedgeek.net/?p=577
I’m still working on the Mule project that I mentioned in a previous post, and am using the new Mule Maven plugin, maven-mule-plugin to package a project for deployment in Mule. It works well for a simple Mule application, however, in my case, I’m providing the mule-config.xml in a jar file on which the project [...]]]> http://greybeardedgeek.net/2010/11/15/deploying-services-to-mule-with-maven-mule-plugin/feed/ 0 http://greybeardedgeek.net/2010/11/12/java-on-os-x-breathing-a-sigh-of-relief/ http://greybeardedgeek.net/2010/11/12/java-on-os-x-breathing-a-sigh-of-relief/#comments Fri, 12 Nov 2010 14:43:31 +0000 greybeardedgeek http://greybeardedgeek.net/2010/11/java-on-os-x-breathing-a-sigh-of-relief/
TechCrunch is reporting this morning that Apple has joined the OpenJDK project, and will be open-sourcing the OS X implementation of Java. They are apparently continuing to support Java SE 6 on Snow Leopard, and will support it on Lion as well. Java SE 7 (when it finally arrives) will be available from Oracle. As [...]]]> http://greybeardedgeek.net/2010/11/12/java-on-os-x-breathing-a-sigh-of-relief/feed/ 0 http://greybeardedgeek.net/2010/11/03/customizing-jaxb-serialization/ http://greybeardedgeek.net/2010/11/03/customizing-jaxb-serialization/#comments Thu, 04 Nov 2010 02:20:10 +0000 greybeardedgeek http://greybeardedgeek.net/?p=542
I’m working with JAXB serialization in a MULE project, and need to make the serialized XML as consistent as possible with that produced by existing .NET components. I had two issues: JAXB was producing an XML declaration that looked like <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF8" standalone="yes"?> while the .NET-serialized XML had a declaration that looked like <?xml [...]]]> http://greybeardedgeek.net/2010/11/03/customizing-jaxb-serialization/feed/ 0 http://greybeardedgeek.net/2010/10/16/people-are-still-writing-straight-jdbc-code/ http://greybeardedgeek.net/2010/10/16/people-are-still-writing-straight-jdbc-code/#comments Sat, 16 Oct 2010 16:15:27 +0000 greybeardedgeek http://greybeardedgeek.net/?p=524
I’ve been using Hibernate, JPA, and the Spring Framework for so long now, that I tend to forget that there are still apparently lots of Java developers out there still entirely hand-writing JDBC code – getConnection(), etc., and trying (sometimes) to manage the JDBC resources properly in the face of exceptions. Two things bring this [...]]]> http://greybeardedgeek.net/2010/10/16/people-are-still-writing-straight-jdbc-code/feed/ 0 http://greybeardedgeek.net/2010/10/08/just-another-example-of-why-we-should-stay-the-hell-off-of-facebook/ http://greybeardedgeek.net/2010/10/08/just-another-example-of-why-we-should-stay-the-hell-off-of-facebook/#comments Fri, 08 Oct 2010 16:16:37 +0000 greybeardedgeek http://greybeardedgeek.net/2010/10/just-another-example-of-why-we-should-stay-the-hell-off-of-facebook/ http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/10/08/1358232/Lighthearted-Facebook-Friends-Could-Make-You-Join-NAMBLA-Group]]> http://greybeardedgeek.net/2010/10/08/just-another-example-of-why-we-should-stay-the-hell-off-of-facebook/feed/ 0 http://greybeardedgeek.net/2010/09/30/rhosync-on-linux-making-it-work-with-redis/ http://greybeardedgeek.net/2010/09/30/rhosync-on-linux-making-it-work-with-redis/#comments Thu, 30 Sep 2010 20:05:54 +0000 greybeardedgeek http://greybeardedgeek.net/2010/09/rhosync-on-linux-making-it-work-with-redis/ I’m investigating products for synchronizing a database in a mobile application (iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, etc.) with a server-side database.There a few such products, but right now, I’m running RhoSync through it’s paces. While installing the RhoSync server applicaiton according to these instructions, on RhoMobile’s website, I ran into some problems getting it run. Turns out [...]]]> http://greybeardedgeek.net/2010/09/30/rhosync-on-linux-making-it-work-with-redis/feed/ 0 http://greybeardedgeek.net/2010/09/12/database-connection-pooling-in-grails-solving-the-idle-timeout-issue/ http://greybeardedgeek.net/2010/09/12/database-connection-pooling-in-grails-solving-the-idle-timeout-issue/#comments Sun, 12 Sep 2010 16:08:44 +0000 greybeardedgeek http://greybeardedgeek.net/?p=501
Grails turns database connection pooling on by default, and uses the Apache Commons DBCP library to do the pooling. With many of the popular JDBC drivers, this can cause a failure when the application is accessed after a long idle time, commonly when a business application sits unused overnight, and then is accessed first-thing in [...]]]> http://greybeardedgeek.net/2010/09/12/database-connection-pooling-in-grails-solving-the-idle-timeout-issue/feed/ 2 http://greybeardedgeek.net/2010/09/04/blog-statistics-oses-and-browsers/ http://greybeardedgeek.net/2010/09/04/blog-statistics-oses-and-browsers/#comments Sat, 04 Sep 2010 16:02:10 +0000 greybeardedgeek http://greybeardedgeek.net/?p=461 Here at greybeardedgeek.net, I use the excellent StatPress WordPress plug-in to gather site statistics. I just took a look at the stats for Operating Systems and Browsers. What I found was a little surprising, and, as a software developer, frankly, I found it a bit depressing. Here’s the raw stats: O.S. Visits Windows XP 42245 [...]]]> http://greybeardedgeek.net/2010/09/04/blog-statistics-oses-and-browsers/feed/ 1