TweetI created a MySql instance the other day, and today I wanted to connect my application server to that database server. While connecting from my application server I kept getting this error. Lost connection to MySQL server at ‘reading initial communication packet’, system error: 113 After searching many forum threads, I finally noticed that the issue was [...]
READ MORE »Rally Eclipse Plugin installation and Configuration
TweetThe other day I found Screencast-o-matic http://www.screencast-o-matic.com and I think it is easy to create tutorials now via the web, then upload them to Youtube. So, here is my first venture into creating video tutorials. Please let me know what you think. Link to this post!
READ MORE »CentOS 5.5 horizontal scaling
TweetI have been running CentOS 5.4 for a while now, and my website http://www.blincmagazine.com has gotten to the point where I need to scale for additional traffic. So I decided instead of scaling vertically by adding more ram to my LAMP server, I would rather scale horizontally to ensure I have options later with additional [...]
READ MORE »Reflecting on SpringOne 2GX
TweetThis was my first time attending SpringOne, and I must say, I was truly impressed. Springsource did an amazing job getting a wide breadth of technologies to make this a valuable conference. Some of the main sections I found personally valuable, and thus will be exploring and sharing with the team, are New Spring 3.1 [...]
READ MORE »Trying to build BuildR 1.4.1 on Ruby 1.8.7
TweetI just spent quite a bit of time trying to get Buildr to work on Ruby. I started with 1.9 but that did not work. All my team was using 1.8.7, but on Mac. So I started down the 1.8.7 path, then I found the standard Gem did not work for Ruby 1.8.7 on Windows [...]
READ MORE »PHP 5 upgrade on CENTOS 5 x86_64
TweetUpgrading PHP: I started down this path: http://jazzymarketing.com/main/0811/upgrade-php-51-php-52-centos but found that I kept getting dependency conflicts: I finally came across this forum posting: http://forums.famillecollet.com/viewtopic.php?id=91 but this still came up with similar dependency issues. This finally got the answer I needed: http://www.webtatic.com/blog/2009/06/php-530-on-centos-5/ But then I got this error: I know that I am running MySql 5.0.x so I determined [...]
READ MORE »Creating a mysqldump of a MySql database with on-the-fly gzip compression
TweetI am always amazed at some of the small things that I think would be easy to find a solution for, seem so ellusive. Today, I needed to run a quick mysqldump of a 100MB database, and I needed to compress it on the fly to gzip so I did not end up with 2 [...]
READ MORE »WordPress upgrade to 3.0
TweetI am still so happy that WordPress is still so easy to upgrade. I did mine today in 5 minutes as stated. I wish all my upgrades where this easy. Link to this post!
READ MORE »JVM and Tomcat 6 Tuning new Grails application with legacy Java webservice
TweetRecently I ran into issues where a web application running on Tomcat 6.0 was crashing due to load spikes in requests. What I noticed in the diagrams below, was there was no issue with CPU or Memory, but rather issues with GC cycles and high Thread count/spike causing the Tomcat instance to become unresponsive and [...]
READ MORE »Be cautious about property names in external configuration
TweetI have an External configuration file (${appName}-config.groovy) that I wanted to have a global URL declaration such as: Then what I wanted was to use these globally in this one configuration file such as: Then to display them in my index.gsp like: [DAS_SERVICE_URL]…[http://24.40.70.14:8090/DAS010WSWAR] But found they where null in the gsp. [DAS_SERVICE_URL]…[] So I had [...]
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