Software Development General | Wednesday November 26, 2008 | By Bill Kratzer

I was doing some web-site work for a customer last night, when I noticed a very bizarre thing in IE7.     I had a div with a background color (defined with CSS), and next to it was another div with the same background color (this time as a PNG...

Versatile Blogs General | Wednesday November 19, 2008 | By Ryan Bohn

I was reading the Atlassian Developer Blog and in the latest entry the author mentions the word throbber. I've never heard of the term before so I thought I'd perform a quick search. Doing so brought me to this Wikipedia entry . Throbber - "A...

Software Development General | Monday November 17, 2008 | By Bill Kratzer

If you do a lot of CSS work, you are probably familiar with the fact that every web browser has its default styles (and ever browser has different defaults).   This can make it difficult to format content consistently across browsers... unless you ...

Software Development General | Tuesday November 11, 2008 | By Dan Miller

SpringSource acquired G2One, which means a lot of great stuff for Groovy/Grails.  You can read some stuff on the lead developer's blog here which also has links to official announcements, etc.

Software Development General | Friday November 07, 2008 | By Bill Kratzer

Robert Glass posted a great article on the IEEE online journal - Frequently Forgotten Fundamental Facts about Software Engineering.   Robert is also the authors of one of my favorite books, Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering .  ...

Software Development troubleshooting jvm | Java | Tuesday October 07, 2008 | By Andy Galeano

Hi there, OK, so if you're like me your worst enemy is silent failure.  Things better just work or fail fast.  So I wanted to blog about my latest battle hardened tool: the Sun JVM "OnError" option.  This option has been around for...

Software Development General | Sunday October 05, 2008 | By Bill Kratzer

Craig Walls made a great post on how easy it is to build the Spring Framework from source code.   I tried it, and it works like a charm.   In under five minutes, I checked out the project and built the jars.   In a world of...

Sysadmin Corner opensolaris solaris zfs | General | Friday October 03, 2008 | By William Hathaway

When I am talking to someone who is looking at getting started with ZFS, I typically recommend they hit the following resources: ZFS Administration Guide (previous link was for Solaris users, if you are using OpenSolaris/Solaris Express, look here ) --...

Sysadmin Corner niagara cmt oracle solaris | General | Monday September 22, 2008 | By William Hathaway

Glenn Fawcett (Sun) and Andrew Holdsworth (Oracle) gave a presentation on Optimizing Oracle on CMT machines at Oracle Open World today that is freely available.  It is a good read if you have Oracle or another RDBMS and want to run it on one of Sun's CMT...

Software Development sqlite chrome google | Web | Friday September 12, 2008 | By Ross Olweiler

I recently installed Google Chrome and I like it. However one thing has been bugging me and that is the way it does not let me save a password for a site, once I have blacklisted it with the 'Never for this site' button. Today, with a little effort, I was...

Software Development General | Wednesday September 10, 2008 | By Dan Miller

Well, I feel compelled to talk about the third topic so shortly after writing my second recap entry on Groovy scripting.  A majority of the reason for me attending Chicago was not for Groovy (though I got a lot out of that), but looking for the answer...

Software Development General | Tuesday September 09, 2008 | By Dan Miller

Upon my return to the office after my week learning Groovy and Grails, I've often been asked how it is that I began learning the "syntactical sugars" it offers.  So, I felt it would be beneficial to blog quickly on my experiences with Groovy...

Software Development General | Friday September 05, 2008 | By Dan Miller

During the week of Aug 24th, I had a great opportunity to go to Chicago, IL for the week and take part in G2One's Groovy/Grails training session, taught by Jeff Brown.  Groovy/Grails has already taken hold of me as a developer, but this was an opportunity...

Software Development leak memory javascript | General | Saturday August 30, 2008 | By Ryan Bohn

I've been writing more JavaScript-heavy user interfaces lately, using frameworks like Ext, YUI, Prototype, etc.  As a result, I've been wondering about what potential JavaScript has for memory leaks. The following provides a decent article on the...

Software Development grails groovy hibernate | General | Friday August 22, 2008 | By Dan Miller

So it's been a while since I put in a "plug" for the Grails framework.  And, since I'll be receiving a boat load of information next week on Groovy and Grails, I thought I'd unload this food-for-thought to the programming community.  I'm...

Software Development General | Thursday August 14, 2008 | By Bill Kratzer

For the CSS-impaired (like myself), here's a nice little article on how to do really nice table designs using CSS.

Sysadmin Corner solaris sparc console break t5220 t5120 | General | Wednesday August 06, 2008 | By William Hathaway

The T5220 is one of the first SPARC based servers to use the ILOM lights out management software.  The interface is a bit different than ALOM, which is what most of Sun's volume SPARC servers have used in the past.  If you need to send a break to one...

Sysadmin Corner security opensolaris solaris solaris10 | General | Tuesday August 05, 2008 | By William Hathaway

Glen Brunnette (security guru from Sun) has just announced an updated version of his excellent Solaris 10 Security Deep Dive presentation.  It covers lots of good topics, such as: minimization executable stacks SMF Process Rights Zones Secure by...

Sysadmin Corner jumpstart efi solaris format smi zfs | General | Saturday August 02, 2008 | By William Hathaway

I was working with a colleague recently trying to track down a jumpstart issue and thought this might be helpful to other people. The Problem A T2000 had a pair of 146G drives (c0t0d0 and c0t1d0) and a pair of 73s (c0t2d0 and c0t3d0) Each pair was...

Software Development eclipse java | General | Tuesday July 29, 2008 | By Andy Galeano

Eclipse is a nice IDE that many of us use to develop Java apps.  Eclipse has many plug-ins to do various things such as source code control and database interactions. Hopping between these different 'Eclipse Perspectives' can get cumbersome, so I thought...

Software Development General | Friday July 25, 2008 | By Bill Kratzer

There's a nice article on IBM Developer works that demonstrates how some tools can be used to generate documentation from your codebase systemically (rather than manually up-keeping it yourself).   Enjoy!

Sysadmin Corner x4100 sun ipmitool x4200 ilom | General | Friday July 25, 2008 | By William Hathaway

x4[12]00s appear to have a default power policy of 'previous' which means if the machines were off when they lost power, they won't automatically start back up when power is restored. You can change that to 'always-on' which will always start the system...

Sysadmin Corner locator x86 ilom sun t2000 x4200 alom x4100 locate sparc | General | Wednesday July 23, 2008 | By William Hathaway

If you want to turn on or off the white locate lights on a Sun machine that uses the ALOM service processor firmware (entry level SPARC and CMT servers) it is simple, use: setlocator on or setlocator off   If you want to do the same for...

Software Development java database validation configuration | Java | Thursday July 17, 2008 | By Andy Galeano

Apache Commons DBCP is a very nice database connection pool API. It's easy to use and works flawlessly. Did you know that it has a validation feature? Consider this DBCP configured in Spring: <bean id="dataSource" class="org.apache....