TweetI have been working on an issue where HttpServletRequest.getHostName() always return the IP address, instead of the host name. The Tomcat 5.5 and Tomcat 6 documentation states enableLookups is set to true by default. Link to this post!
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Review: Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
TweetFor anyone who has any drive in their life, you should read/listen to this book. There is a little bit of Steve in each of us, but he was able to will the good and the bad in a single focused direction to truly make a dent in the universe. I was drawn to this [...]
READ MORE »Review: Camel in Action
TweetI performed a technical review on the book, and the first thing I did was open the source code and run through the examples. Each of the examples was well documented, thorough and all had unit tests. Combine this with very detailed history, theory and practical application of the Camel framework, you end up with [...]
READ MORE »Mapping Mongodb ISODate to Spring Roo Entity
TweetI have been inserting log4j entries into a mongodb database and each entry has been given an ISODate timestamp: Link to this post!
READ MORE »lessons learned from URL shortening
TweetI have been working to get the URL shorteners I use to track my clicks, then extend the functionality. Mostly I use http://bit.ly to shorten my urls, and I love the service. But I did run into a need to have multiple URL’s added to one shortened URL. I ran into http://furl.ly that does a [...]
READ MORE »vBulletin 4 Illegal Username Regular Expression issue and solution
TweetI have been hacking on a way to only allow alphanumeric, dots (.), dashes (-) and underscores (_) in usernames for my forum. You may require the username to match a regular expression (PCRE). The admin help provides some examples that may be useful. To disable this function leave the option blank. While looking at the [...]
READ MORE »Strange Thread Stack size error running Cygwin build
TweetI was adding -Xss128k as a JAVA_OPS like this: then when running Jetty I ran into the following issue: Looking into Cygwin a little more and looking at the current stack limit is set to 2,034 and cannot be changed. Link to this post!
READ MORE »JMeter load testing against Apache Webserver: Errors and Resolutions
TweetI have been working on a fairly simple JMeter load script that I can run a series of 4 sequential pages against an Apache server, but the goal was to have the server support 2,000 concurrent requests for 5 minutes without error. Most of my issues in this exercise have been with JMeter and the client machine [...]
READ MORE »A snapshot reflection in the midst of a thunderstorm
TweetI am in the midst of my own thunderstorm the past few years. It started around 2005 when several projects I was working on where canceled or re-organized leaving me without work unexpectedly. The timing was always terrible and it all seems to be the worst time of my life at the time. Now reflecting on the past, [...]
READ MORE »Avaya MPP servers holding sockets in CLOSE_WAIT
TweetI have been running into a serious issue with Avaya Voice portal the past several month where Avaya (AVP) will freeze a caller resulting in a call to the customer that is ‘Dead-Air’ then the caller gets hung up on, or sometimes the dead-air lasts long enough where the caller just hangs up. While investigating [...]
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