Technobabble

Sardine powered webdav client?

Ant — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:14:04 +0000

Extra Sardines on my pizza please A few days ago I came across the need for an easy to use webdav client. Currently we’re using jakarta slide, which as it turns out is a project that was discontinued (as of fall 2007!), and whose code base as of this writing is practically 10 years old. [...]

Sending Attachments with the Javamail 1.4.x API

Ant — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 03:06:08 +0000

Make your emails interesting with attachments! Not that your emails aren’t already interesting – if you have some kind of regular job running and you want to produce a results bound file sent to your recipients as an attachment, this code example can illustrate one way it can be done. It’s pretty much the same [...]

The Deploy vs Deployers directory, JBoss v5.x

Ant — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:28:18 +0000

Tae Bo for JBoss! JBoss ships with a few configurations that are meant to provide examples of how JBoss can be configured for your environment. It’s recommend you take the “default” configuration (or “all” if you require clustering), and then slim it down by removing the various mbean components found in the “jboss/server/<configured instance>/deployers” and [...]

Jars and Class Loading, Jboss v5.x

Ant — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:40:22 +0000

So where do I put all my jars? As you write your applications you’re bound to leverage third party libraries to cut down on the amount of work; lets face it no one wants to reinvent the wheel. A downside is sometimes these third party libraries might not be the most mature or stable releases [...]

Write a Stored Procedure in Postgres 8+

Ant — Wed, 05 May 2010 23:52:53 +0000

Stored Procs Sometimes as a developer we’re tasked with data intensive work like importing data into a database, cleaning up sets of incomplete records or transferring data from one table to another through some kind of filter. While our application would normally be in charge of creating and maintaining the data, sometimes we don’t want [...]

*nix commands I can’t do without

Ant — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 04:42:55 +0000

Unix/Linux/*nix survival 101 Let me start with the obvious: I’m definitely not a unix guru by any means. I do however use it on a daily basis for basic build/development oriented tasks, so I know enough to get by. Since my friend just installed his first ever linux distribution (CentOS, Huzzah!), I thought I’d write [...]