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March 19, 2009, 17:19
BASE Logic, Inc. is an Enterprise application development company. We can help define, develop and manage high quality Java, Spring and other related…
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October 31, 2010, 04:46
We have many Letters Of Reference from our clients, and here are a few of our testimonials
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October 31, 2010, 17:08
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January 8, 2009, 06:19
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Coverletter
April 30, 2008, 20:12
Resume Home Skills Matrix Dear Sir or Madam: Please read the following information as 99.9% of the repetitive questions all recruiters ask are here and I…
Resume
April 30, 2008, 19:26
Word Resume/CV Cover Letter Skills Matrix Mick Knutson Curriculum Vitae Objective: Mr. Knutson is extremely senior Enterprise Java consultant with…
- Sutter Health
  May 28, 2008, 08:40
  Resume Home Skills Matrix February-2008 to July-2008 Through: BASE Logic, Inc. Client: Sutter Health; Sacramento, California USA Position: J2EE Developer…
- California Department of Insurance
  June 9, 2008, 12:54
  Resume Home Skills Matrix April-2006 to September-2006 Through: BASE Logic, Inc. Client: California Department of Insurance; Los Angeles, California USA…
- Washington Mutual
  June 9, 2008, 12:58
  Resume Home Skills Matrix December-2005 to January-2006 Through: BASE Logic, Inc. Client: Washington Mutual; Emeryville, California USA Position: J2EE…
- LookSmart Ltd.
  June 9, 2008, 09:43
  Resume Home Skills Matrix January-2006 to April-2006 Through: BASE Logic, Inc. Client: LookSmart, San Francisco, California USA Position: J2EE Developer…
- ServePath
  October 11, 2008, 11:43
  Resume Home Skills Matrix February-2008 to November-2008 Through: BASE Logic, Inc. Client: ServePath; San Francisco, California USA Position: Lead…
- GoGrid
  October 11, 2008, 11:50
  Resume Home Skills Matrix February-2008 to November-2008 Through: BASE Logic, Inc. Client: ServePath; San Francisco, California USA Position: Lead…
- UBS Warburg
  October 22, 2008, 10:21
  Resume Home Skills Matrix May-2002 to June-2003 Through: BASE Logic, Inc. Client: UBS Warburg, Global Compensation Benefits Division; Zurich Switzerland …
- Terracotta
  October 26, 2008, 10:20
  Resume Home Skills Matrix January-2006 to April-2006 Through: BASE Logic, Inc. Client: Terracotta; San Francisco, California USA Position: Lead Architect…
- FedEx Ground
  January 6, 2009, 07:45
  Resume Home Skills Matrix November-2008 to December-2009 Through: BASE Logic, Inc. Client: FedEx Ground; Coraopolis, Pennsylvania USA Position: Security…
- Global Knowledge
  January 6, 2009, 08:07
  Resume Home Skills Matrix November-2008 to Present Through: BASE Logic, Inc. Client: Global Knowledge; XXX, Utah USA Position: Sr Instructor / Mentor…
- Trivera
  January 6, 2009, 08:09
  Resume Home Skills Matrix November-2008 to Present Through: BASE Logic, Inc. Client: Trivera Technologies; XXX, new Jersey USA Position: Sr Instructor /…
- Delta Dental
  May 1, 2008, 06:17
  Resume Home Skills Matrix Sept-2006 to February-2008 Through: BASE Logic, Inc. Client: Delta Dental; San Francisco, California USA Position: J2EE Solutions…
- Hewlett Packard
  May 1, 2008, 06:25
  Resume Home Skills Matrix May-2005 to December-2005 Through: BASE Logic, Inc. Client: Hewlett Packard Consulting Services; Pleasanton, California. USA…
- Wells Fargo
  May 1, 2008, 06:27
  Resume Home Skills Matrix October-2003 to May-2005 BASE Logic Inc. Client: Wells Fargo Bank; San Francisco, California. Position: J2EE…
- UBS Warburg
  April 30, 2008, 21:15
  Resume Home Skills Matrix May-2002 to June-2003 Through: BASE Logic, Inc. Client: UBS Warburg, Global Compensation Benefits division; Zurich, Switzerland.…
- Discover Financial Services
  May 1, 2008, 06:31
  Resume Home Skills Matrix Oct-2001 to Mar-2002 BASE Logic Inc. Client: Discover Financial Services; Salt Lake City, Utah. Position: J2EE…
- IBM Global Services
  May 1, 2008, 06:32
  Resume Home Skills Matrix Jan-2001 to Oct-2001 Apr-2000 to Jul-2000 BASE Logic Inc. Client: IBM Global Consulting Services; Tucson,…
- Cal Voter II
  June 9, 2008, 12:46
  Resume Home Skills Matrix June-1999 to September-1999 Through: BASE Logic, Inc. Client: Secretary of State; Cal Voter II Project; Sacramento, California USA…
- PwC
  May 1, 2008, 06:35
  Aug-1998 to Mar-1999 PriceWaterhouseCoopers PwC; Management Consulting Services Division; San Francisco, California. Position: Solutions…
- Oracle Government Services
  May 1, 2008, 06:36
  Jan-1997 to Apr-1998 Oracle Corporation Oracle Government Services; STP; Englewood, Colorado. Position: Java Principal Consultant …
- Letters of Reference
  May 6, 2008, 05:53
  Personal References These select Letters-of-Reference for previous projects Mick Knutson has been part of (PDF's) FedEx Services: Reference from Lead…
Skills Matrix
April 30, 2008, 21:01
Cover Letter Resume Home . Excel Version: http://baselogic.com/resume/skills.xls . Skill Proficien…
About
March 23, 2008, 08:16
Java, JavaEE, J2EE, WebLogic, WebSphere, JBoss, Tomcat, Oracle, Spring, Maven, Architecture, Design, Mentoring, Instructor and Agile Consulting.
Contact
April 30, 2008, 19:52
Contact BASE logic, Inc. and/or Mick Knutson BASE Logic, Inc Mick Knutson (President) 10580 N. McCarran Blvd. Ste. 115-551 Reno, Nevada 89503 Phone:…
About Mick Knutson
October 30, 2010, 15:20
With nearly two decades of experience working in the IT industry in various roles as Enterprise technology consultant, Java Architect, project leader,…
- Services
  October 31, 2010, 17:48
  BASE Logic, Inc. is an Enterprise application development company. We can help define, develop and manage high quality Java, Spring and other related…
- Testimonials
  October 30, 2010, 15:20
  “Working with Mick was always fun because of the sheer breadth of his experiences. Right from jumping off buildings (literally!) to diving into the…

Blog Posts

Category: Consulting (3)
- Reflecting on SpringOne 2GX by: Mick Knutson
  October 25, 2010, 09:46
  This 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…
- American Stimulus: Optimism, Fear and Doubt by: Mick Knutson
  January 29, 2009, 07:22
  I feel very relieved and confident that president Obama will bring a new and exciting era to the US. But with my optimism, I can not help but feel very…
- Thinking out of the box by: Mick Knutson
  March 23, 2008, 08:16
  I want to start this blog for 3 reasons: I won't lie, I want to get more reference material for prospective clients to hire me and my services. I have…
Category: System Administration (13)
A system administrator, IT systems administrator, systems administrator, or sysadmin is a person employed to maintain and operate a computer system and/or…
- Solved "java.net.BindException: Address already in use: connect" issue on Windows by: Mick Knutson
  November 23, 2011, 10:47
  I have been running into issues on Windows servers while running JMeter tests, but also when I have been tuning akka as described in another blog of mine http:…
- ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'user'@'localhost' (using password: YES) by: Mick Knutson
  February 5, 2011, 06:56
  I ran into an issue today trying to perform a mysqldump with the following command I kept getting this error And re-runing it, I would get this…
- New MySql database server, firewall configuration by: Mick Knutson
  October 29, 2010, 10:02
  I 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…
- CentOS 5.5 horizontal scaling by: Mick Knutson
  October 26, 2010, 17:32
  I 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…
- Reflecting on SpringOne 2GX by: Mick Knutson
  October 25, 2010, 09:46
  This 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…
- PHP 5 upgrade on CENTOS 5 x86_64 by: Mick Knutson
  June 19, 2010, 07:42
  Upgrading 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:…
- Creating a mysqldump of a MySql database with on-the-fly gzip compression by: Mick Knutson
  June 18, 2010, 16:42
  I 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…
- WordPress upgrade to 3.0 by: Mick Knutson
  June 18, 2010, 16:41
  I 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.
- JVM and Tomcat 6 Tuning new Grails application with legacy Java webservice by: Mick Knutson
  June 17, 2010, 07:24
  Recently 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…
- Apache mod_security on CentOS 5 x86_64 by: Mick Knutson
  April 30, 2009, 10:07
  In the journey of rebuilding my dedicated server to create a secured cloud server, I was trying to find out what are the potential issues, besides network…
- Issue with libxml2 and lua 5 on i386 verse x86_64 by: Mick Knutson
  April 30, 2009, 07:21
  while I was trying to get the Apache mod_security plugin working, I starting having issue with Including 2 different libraries. The examples required me to…
- from Developer to System Admin in 60 seconds... by: Mick Knutson
  April 30, 2009, 06:29
  In a post I made a few months ago: http://baselogic.com/blog/archives/252 I talked about an issue with a RootKit that I had. Well, the truth is, that was…
- Invasion from a RootKit by: Mick Knutson
  March 18, 2009, 05:52
  Yesterday, I was invaded by a RootKit. It seems there where some stealth application added to my /tmp directory, and seems to be stealing bandwidth from my…
Category: Development (75)
- Plugin for Chrome and Firefox to pre-set Google search the past year with safe-search off by: Mick Knutson
  May 6, 2012, 15:17
  I have been wanting to preset my Google searches in Chrome and Firefox to only search previous year and not use safe-search. I can across a simple plugin that…
- Java float precision changes when unexpectedly up-casting to double by: Mick Knutson
  May 5, 2012, 04:15
  I ran across a little gotcha today where a float value being inserted into another object container (JSONObject) was not holding the precision of the original…
- Pushed Spring Core Certification Demos to Github and published site docs by: Mick Knutson
  April 9, 2012, 13:42
  I have been working on my Spring Core certification exam preparation by creating several demo projects that help cover each of the outlined objectives for the…
- Gradle 1.0-milestone-8 variable scoping with multi-module project by: Mick Knutson
  February 25, 2012, 10:09
  I have been very frustrated by Gradle and variable scoping in a multi-module project. I have wasted countless hours trying to follow examples that simply do…
- Gradle repositories syntax changed: Cause: You must specify a URL for a Maven repository by: Mick Knutson
  February 12, 2012, 05:49
  I have been fighting with Gradle (gradle-1.0-milestone-7) for over a day and am fairly frustrated, especially seeing what the solution ended up being. …
- Review: Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson by: Mick Knutson
  January 31, 2012, 15:54
  For 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…
- Review: Camel in Action by: Mick Knutson
  January 31, 2012, 15:52
  I 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…
- Strange Thread Stack size error running Cygwin build by: Mick Knutson
  December 21, 2011, 10:39
  I 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…
- JMeter load testing against Apache Webserver: Errors and Resolutions by: Mick Knutson
  December 21, 2011, 06:45
  I 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…
- A snapshot reflection in the midst of a thunderstorm by: Mick Knutson
  December 17, 2011, 17:18
  I 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…
- Avaya MPP servers holding sockets in CLOSE_WAIT by: Mick Knutson
  December 9, 2011, 14:33
  I 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…
- VXML Grammar issue on Avaya Voice Browser verse Voxeo Prophecy by: Mick Knutson
  December 2, 2011, 12:56
  I ran into a strange issue the other day while testing my VXML application on Voxeo Prophecy. Originally this caller input function was tested with Avaya, and…
- Cannot run program "C:\usr\bin\glassfish3\glassfish\bin\asadmin": CreateProcess error=193, %1 is not a valid Win32 application by: Mick Knutson
  November 19, 2011, 12:09
  I just encountered a problem with my glassfish installation while preforming a deployment with maven. I was upgrading from a SNAPSHOT version of Glassfish to…
- perl.exe: *** fatal error - unable to remap cygwin dll to same address as parent by: Mick Knutson
  November 3, 2011, 09:46
  I have been having a random cygwin error on Windows 7 enterprise for a while, and I have finally been able to correct the issue with a few tedious steps. But…
- DZone Most Valuable Blogger (MVB) certificate of appreciation. by: Mick Knutson
  September 3, 2011, 06:21
  DZone Most Valuable Blogger certificate. I have been part of this program from the beginning and was excited to be part of DZone. Now in their appreciatio…
- JAVA_HOME is set to an invalid directory: C:\Program Files\JetBrains\IntelliJ IDEA 10.5\jre for Gradle plugin by: Mick Knutson
  August 7, 2011, 12:18
  I have been trying to get Gradle working in intellij 10.5 so I can run some sample projects that were not in Maven. So I installed the Gradle plugin, even…
- No subclass matches this class; for this Aggregate mapping with inheritance. by: Mick Knutson
  February 5, 2011, 11:36
  No subclass matches this class for this Aggregate mapping with inheritance I have been writing a chapter for my new book "Java EE6 Cookbook for Securing,…
- DZone Most Valued Blogger (MVB) Program by: Mick Knutson
  January 4, 2011, 09:18
  I am excited to have been asked to join the DZone MVB. You can find the list of MVB'ers on http://www.dzone.com/page/mvbs and i am glad to be in great…
- Spring-Android Issue integrating RestTemplate by: Mick Knutson
  December 5, 2010, 19:49
  I started working on some REST client Android development. I have spent the past 1-2 month reading books, and just looking around the internet for good…
- Voxeo and Avaya Voice Browser redirect loop error by: Mick Knutson
  November 20, 2010, 12:15
  Today I was completing an Auto Function algorythm for my IVR (Interactive Voice Recognition) application I am working on. The premise to to deduce selections…
- Rally Eclipse Plugin installation and Configuration by: Mick Knutson
  October 28, 2010, 05:54
  The 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…
- Reflecting on SpringOne 2GX by: Mick Knutson
  October 25, 2010, 09:46
  This 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…
- Trying to build BuildR 1.4.1 on Ruby 1.8.7 by: Mick Knutson
  June 28, 2010, 12:18
  I 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…
- Creating a mysqldump of a MySql database with on-the-fly gzip compression by: Mick Knutson
  June 18, 2010, 16:42
  I 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…
- NoClassDefFoundError org.apache.commons.lang.ArrayUtils in Grails 1.2.2 upgrade by: Mick Knutson
  April 6, 2010, 07:07
  Originally when I tried to upgrade to grails 1.2.2, I kept running into an error that I did not face in grails 1.2.1 which was an java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError…
- technorati blog claim by: Mick Knutson
  December 10, 2009, 09:26
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- Category: java-javaee-j2ee (40)
  General Java, JavaEE and J2EE development Blog. Including: JSP, Servlet, JDBC, EJB, JMS, JAX-WS, Hibernate, Camel, CXF, XFire
  - Tomcat 5.5 and Tomcat 6 connector option enableLookups not defaulting to true by: Mick Knutson
    February 2, 2012, 11:26
    I 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…
  - Akka actor thread utilization and optimization by: Mick Knutson
    August 13, 2011, 06:03
    I am working on a project where we have http requests from an IVR Voice browser making VXML requests. Each request is a phone caller and each new caller in our…
  - Syntax error, parameterized types are only available if source level is 5.0 by: Mick Knutson
    April 3, 2011, 07:12
    SOLUTION: Syntax error, parameterized types are only available if source level is 5.0
  - ContainerException The ResourceConfig instance does not contain any root resource classes by: Mick Knutson
    April 1, 2011, 12:42
    I have been creating some REST services with Jersey, and I started getting this error I have searched for a while to find any reference to this error…
  - PropertyNotFoundException Target Unreachable, identifier 'patientBean' resolved to null by: Mick Knutson
    February 13, 2011, 10:01
    PropertyNotFoundException Target Unreachable, identifier 'patientBean' resolved to null I have been trying to get a simple @ManagedBean example working…
  - No subclass matches this class; for this Aggregate mapping with inheritance. by: Mick Knutson
    February 5, 2011, 11:36
    No subclass matches this class for this Aggregate mapping with inheritance I have been writing a chapter for my new book "Java EE6 Cookbook for Securing,…
  - Unit Testing Springframework's @Async annotation by: Mick Knutson
    November 10, 2010, 05:26
    I had a task to make my current webservice calls asynchronous and wanted to use the @Async annotation in Spring 3.0x to accomplish the task. The @Async…
  - Reflecting on SpringOne 2GX by: Mick Knutson
    October 25, 2010, 09:46
    This 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…
  - JVM and Tomcat 6 Tuning new Grails application with legacy Java webservice by: Mick Knutson
    June 17, 2010, 07:24
    Recently 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…
  - My road to the SCJP Sun Certified Programmer for Java 6 Exam 310-065 by: Mick Knutson
    April 23, 2010, 03:01
    I just wanted to relay my thoughts, experiences, and lessons learned on my road to getting Sun Certified as an SCJP 6 Java Programmer. First off, I have…
  - Groovy Spring DSL Constructor Argument by: Mick Knutson
    April 9, 2010, 10:25
    I have been trying to create an inner class instance of a Spring constructor argument and have been looking at the Grails documentation that states Construc…
  - Obscure Groovy error when class not found in resources.groovy by: Mick Knutson
    April 5, 2010, 09:30
    I have been trying to change my webservice implementation from org.springframework.remoting.jaxws.JaxWsPortProxyFactoryBean to use org.springframework.ws.client…
  - Using resources.groovy for Spring DSL with Environment switch by: Mick Knutson
    April 2, 2010, 10:19
    I was having issues trying to get my Spring DSL to operate in ./grails-app/spring/resources.groovy. I have been able to use XML formatting in resources.xml,…
  - Getting Grails external configuration working in the real world. by: Mick Knutson
    April 1, 2010, 08:03
    I have gone through several books and countless Blogs to try to get a valid working WAR that would access my external configuration files, both .properties and…
  - Testing POST methods with WebTest to simulation error condition. by: Mick Knutson
    March 18, 2010, 14:42
    I started a new Grails project recently, and I found Canoo's WebTest extremely easy to get working. I was even able to get Cobertura code coverage integrated…
  - Cannot create JDBC driver of class '' for connect URL 'null' by: Mick Knutson
    March 17, 2010, 09:40
    So I keep getting this error complaining about org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.SQLNestedException: Cannot create JDBC driver of class '' for connect URL 'null' in…
  - Composite Primary Key pattern in Hibernate by: Mick Knutson
    November 25, 2009, 07:18
    I was trying to create a relationship without using surrogate primary keys the other day in Hibernate. I started searching around for examples, but did not…
  - Centralizing PMD rules for use with Maven. by: Mick Knutson
    November 23, 2009, 17:21
    PMD has long been a great report to find out many useful details of your code base. I find that the default ruleset does not contain some checks that I find…
  - Updating Maven on Mac OS X by: Mick Knutson
    November 23, 2009, 17:04
    Maven, has been my project build centric tool for many years now. I have never really had an issue updating to the latest version on Windows, Linux or Unix…
  - Cannot locate BeanDefinitionParser for element by: Mick Knutson
    September 29, 2009, 04:40
    When I upgraded from Camel 2.0-SNAPSHOT to 2.0.0, while I was using Spring 2.5.6, I started getting the following errors on deployment: error: org.springfram…
  - Maven Archetype Directory Structure by: Mick Knutson
    September 24, 2009, 05:35
    I created a Visio diagram of an Executable Jar and Web Application Archetype Template for Maven. I wanted to share the image and hopefully this can help…
  - Utah Code Camp 2009 by: Mick Knutson
    September 21, 2009, 04:56
    I was a keynote speaker at the 2009 Utah Code Camp (http://utcodecamp.com/speakers/) I wanted to post my source code, and Slide Deck below. Source Code…
  - Testing ActiveMQ VirtualTopic's using Camel and JUnit by: Mick Knutson
    August 25, 2009, 09:39
    I have started to create a server Process that sends a status update message that is consumed by remote clients via an activeMQ VirtualTopic. * note in the…
  - SiteToolException: ArtifactNotFoundException: The skin does not exist by: Mick Knutson
    August 19, 2009, 12:59
    I have run into this error many times in the past, and have not seen any blogs on this issue, so I wanted to create a better blog with a solution to the…
  - Deployment issues with Spring AOP and Weblogic 10.3 by: Mick Knutson
    August 5, 2009, 06:30
    I have been working on a Hibernate / Spring Data Access Component for a multi-module project. The testing has all been done with JUnit and DBUnit tests,…
  - How to convince developers and management to use JUnit testing by: Mick Knutson
    May 18, 2009, 07:00
    I am currently on a project that provides configuration management support for >350 production application. Many are internal, but there are many dozens of…
  - JSF Web Application, Jetty to WebLogic 10.3 migration issues by: Mick Knutson
    May 15, 2009, 04:55
    I have created a fairly straightforward Java Server Faces (JSF) application that performs several searches, data update, and audits of the updates. I like to…
  - Weblogic 10.3 hangs on JNDI data source lookup during deployment by: Mick Knutson
    May 1, 2009, 05:27
    I have been working on a Spring based web application for a couple weeks. This application uses Hibernate Generic DAO's with a JNDI template via spring to…
  - Common Hibernate JPA Data Services Component by: Mick Knutson
    April 10, 2009, 11:13
    I have been using Hibernate JPA, with a Java Generics based data access layer for some time now. But each time I go to a new project, I find that I have to do…
  - PersistenceException issue with Cobertura and the hibernate3-maven-plugin by: Mick Knutson
    March 16, 2009, 11:54
    I have been using the hibernate3-maven-plugin for some time with a good deal of success in unit testing my data access layers through dbunit. I always separate…
  - Maven ignores unit test with JUnit and TestNG by: Mick Knutson
    January 16, 2009, 06:21
    Today I was trying to use JUnit 4, and JUnit 3 in a Maven archetype I was creating. I had previously added TestNG dependencies to this project. I then added…
  - Exploring Developer Support Techniques by: Mick Knutson
    December 17, 2008, 06:30
    I just started a new project, and came across a bank of flash videos created with a tool called Wink used to help users setup their development environments.…
  - Using testing tools to replicate QA defects for bug fixes (screencast) by: Mick Knutson
    December 17, 2008, 06:26
    Long has there been issues to replicate defects found by QA and user acceptance testers for the development team to understand and resolve. For several years,…
  - Using testing tools to replicate QA defects for bug fixes by: Mick Knutson
    December 15, 2008, 07:05
    Long has there been issues to replicate defects found by QA and user acceptance testers for the development team to understand and resolve. For several years,…
  - Agile Consulting and Coaching by: mknutson
    December 2, 2008, 10:30
    I would like to share a new slide deck to outline a presentation I am giving to clients to identify SDLC issues, and how as an Agile Coach, I can assist them…
  - Spring Security issue: Duplicate detected. by: Mick Knutson
    July 25, 2008, 08:54
    So I ran into an issue today that has been detailed at http://forum.springframework.org/showthread.php?p=193052 in the Spring forums that at first glance,…
  - Keeping Tomcat binaries locally for integration testing on Linux by: Mick Knutson
    June 2, 2008, 09:59
    I ran into an issue of server timeouts with embedded Tomcat in my Maven build once I moved to my Linux Build Server. I defined the cargo plugin as that is…
  - Deploying webapp to multiple containers by: Mick Knutson
    May 8, 2008, 08:31
    In my efforts to integrate Jetty, tomcat and selenium into my Maven build for continuous integration tests, I have run into some strange issues. It seems…
  - Building Oracle BPEL suitcase from Maven by: Mick Knutson
    April 1, 2008, 15:33
    bpel-example I spent quite a while trying to get Maven to build our Oracle BPEL suitcases. I wanted to do this because I did not want to rely on JDeveloper…
  - Testing XFire with TestNG by: Mick Knutson
    April 1, 2008, 09:51
    So after an entire weekend of frustration with tutorials such as http://xfire.codehaus.org/JSR+181+Annotations and http://docs.codehaus.org/pages/viewpage.actio…
- Category: Apache Maven (9)
  Apache Maven is a software project management and comprehension tool. Based on the concept of a project object model (POM), Maven can manage a project’s…
  - Maven 3.x profiles.xml is no longer supported and was ignored, please use the settings.xml instead by: Mick Knutson
    February 15, 2011, 04:50
    I just migrated to Maven 3 this week, and noticed that my profiles.xml is no being ignored. So now I have to migrate my profiles to my pom.xml, and…
  - Invalid keystore format and 'keytool genkey' issues during Jar signing by: Mick Knutson
    February 12, 2011, 07:22
    Invalid keystore format and 'keytool genkey' issues during Jar signing I have been working on creating keystores and signing jars today, and have run into…
  - Common Hibernate JPA Data Services Component by: Mick Knutson
    April 10, 2009, 11:13
    I have been using Hibernate JPA, with a Java Generics based data access layer for some time now. But each time I go to a new project, I find that I have to do…
  - Agile Consulting and Coaching by: mknutson
    December 2, 2008, 10:30
    I would like to share a new slide deck to outline a presentation I am giving to clients to identify SDLC issues, and how as an Agile Coach, I can assist them…
  - Spring Security issue: Duplicate detected. by: Mick Knutson
    July 25, 2008, 08:54
    So I ran into an issue today that has been detailed at http://forum.springframework.org/showthread.php?p=193052 in the Spring forums that at first glance,…
  - Managing your settings.xml by: Mick Knutson
    June 10, 2008, 13:18
    NOTE: AVOID SPACES IN DIRECTORY NAMES AT ALL COST! It is mandatory that your JDK be installed in a directory that does NOT have spaces. The default…
  - Keeping Tomcat binaries locally for integration testing on Linux by: Mick Knutson
    June 2, 2008, 09:59
    I ran into an issue of server timeouts with embedded Tomcat in my Maven build once I moved to my Linux Build Server. I defined the cargo plugin as that is…
  - Deploying webapp to multiple containers by: Mick Knutson
    May 8, 2008, 08:31
    In my efforts to integrate Jetty, tomcat and selenium into my Maven build for continuous integration tests, I have run into some strange issues. It seems…
  - Building Oracle BPEL suitcase from Maven by: Mick Knutson
    April 1, 2008, 15:33
    bpel-example I spent quite a while trying to get Maven to build our Oracle BPEL suitcases. I wanted to do this because I did not want to rely on JDeveloper…
- Category: Test Driven Development (TDD) (13)
  Test driven development (TDD) postings.
  - DBUnit unable to import data for CollectionTable witout Primary Key by: Mick Knutson
    July 9, 2011, 00:37
    I ran into an issue running some DBUnit tests trying to seed a database where tables do not have primary keys such as CollectionTables in JPA. This blog…
  - Unit Testing Springframework's @Async annotation by: Mick Knutson
    November 10, 2010, 05:26
    I had a task to make my current webservice calls asynchronous and wanted to use the @Async annotation in Spring 3.0x to accomplish the task. The @Async…
  - Reflecting on SpringOne 2GX by: Mick Knutson
    October 25, 2010, 09:46
    This 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…
  - Cannot create JDBC driver of class '' for connect URL 'null' by: Mick Knutson
    March 17, 2010, 09:40
    So I keep getting this error complaining about org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.SQLNestedException: Cannot create JDBC driver of class '' for connect URL 'null' in…
  - How to convince developers and management to use JUnit testing by: Mick Knutson
    May 18, 2009, 07:00
    I am currently on a project that provides configuration management support for >350 production application. Many are internal, but there are many dozens of…
  - Common Hibernate JPA Data Services Component by: Mick Knutson
    April 10, 2009, 11:13
    I have been using Hibernate JPA, with a Java Generics based data access layer for some time now. But each time I go to a new project, I find that I have to do…
  - Using testing tools to replicate QA defects for bug fixes by: Mick Knutson
    December 15, 2008, 07:05
    Long has there been issues to replicate defects found by QA and user acceptance testers for the development team to understand and resolve. For several years,…
  - Agile Consulting and Coaching by: mknutson
    December 2, 2008, 10:30
    I would like to share a new slide deck to outline a presentation I am giving to clients to identify SDLC issues, and how as an Agile Coach, I can assist them…
  - Spring Security issue: Duplicate detected. by: Mick Knutson
    July 25, 2008, 08:54
    So I ran into an issue today that has been detailed at http://forum.springframework.org/showthread.php?p=193052 in the Spring forums that at first glance,…
  - Keeping Tomcat binaries locally for integration testing on Linux by: Mick Knutson
    June 2, 2008, 09:59
    I ran into an issue of server timeouts with embedded Tomcat in my Maven build once I moved to my Linux Build Server. I defined the cargo plugin as that is…
  - Deploying webapp to multiple containers by: Mick Knutson
    May 8, 2008, 08:31
    In my efforts to integrate Jetty, tomcat and selenium into my Maven build for continuous integration tests, I have run into some strange issues. It seems…
  - Testing CXF within embeded Tomcat using Spring by: Mick Knutson
    May 1, 2008, 14:57
    I converted from XFire to CXF which is really XFire 2 I guess. Now I am using Maven, DBUnit, TestNG, H2 and embedded Tomcat for continuous integration testing.…
  - Testing XFire with TestNG by: Mick Knutson
    April 1, 2008, 09:51
    So after an entire weekend of frustration with tutorials such as http://xfire.codehaus.org/JSR+181+Annotations and http://docs.codehaus.org/pages/viewpage.actio…
- Category: Grails-Groovy (10)
  Development Blog about Groovy and Grails development
  - Reflecting on SpringOne 2GX by: Mick Knutson
    October 25, 2010, 09:46
    This 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…
  - Be cautious about property names in external configuration by: Mick Knutson
    May 6, 2010, 07:53
    I 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…
  - ConfigSlurper with dynamic property name from ConfigurationHolder config Object by: Mick Knutson
    April 16, 2010, 14:16
    I spent the better part of my day trying to solve an issue where I construct a named configuration property, then I wanted to get that property from the config…
  - Groovy Spring DSL Constructor Argument by: Mick Knutson
    April 9, 2010, 10:25
    I have been trying to create an inner class instance of a Spring constructor argument and have been looking at the Grails documentation that states Construc…
  - Using WebServiceTemplate and HTTPClient to enable Webservice read timeout by: Mick Knutson
    April 9, 2010, 08:29
    I was tasked to implement read timeouts in my Spring webservices. I need to be able to implement this on dozens of webservices fairly easy and be maintainable.…
  - NoClassDefFoundError org.apache.commons.lang.ArrayUtils in Grails 1.2.2 upgrade by: Mick Knutson
    April 6, 2010, 07:07
    Originally when I tried to upgrade to grails 1.2.2, I kept running into an error that I did not face in grails 1.2.1 which was an java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError…
  - Obscure Groovy error when class not found in resources.groovy by: Mick Knutson
    April 5, 2010, 09:30
    I have been trying to change my webservice implementation from org.springframework.remoting.jaxws.JaxWsPortProxyFactoryBean to use org.springframework.ws.client…
  - Using resources.groovy for Spring DSL with Environment switch by: Mick Knutson
    April 2, 2010, 10:19
    I was having issues trying to get my Spring DSL to operate in ./grails-app/spring/resources.groovy. I have been able to use XML formatting in resources.xml,…
  - Getting Grails external configuration working in the real world. by: Mick Knutson
    April 1, 2010, 08:03
    I have gone through several books and countless Blogs to try to get a valid working WAR that would access my external configuration files, both .properties and…
  - Testing POST methods with WebTest to simulation error condition. by: Mick Knutson
    March 18, 2010, 14:42
    I started a new Grails project recently, and I found Canoo's WebTest extremely easy to get working. I was even able to get Cobertura code coverage integrated…
- Category: Springframework (4)
  Springframework (or Spring). The leading platform to build and run enterprise Java applications. Spring delivers significant benefits for many projects,…
  - Mapping Mongodb ISODate to Spring Roo Entity by: Mick Knutson
    January 18, 2012, 08:20
    I have been inserting log4j entries into a mongodb database and each entry has been given an ISODate timestamp: To create a mapping for this, I had…
  - Unit Testing Springframework's @Async annotation by: Mick Knutson
    November 10, 2010, 05:26
    I had a task to make my current webservice calls asynchronous and wanted to use the @Async annotation in Spring 3.0x to accomplish the task. The @Async…
  - Reflecting on SpringOne 2GX by: Mick Knutson
    October 25, 2010, 09:46
    This 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…
  - Groovy Spring DSL Constructor Argument by: Mick Knutson
    April 9, 2010, 10:25
    I have been trying to create an inner class instance of a Spring constructor argument and have been looking at the Grails documentation that states Construc…
- Category: Android (1)
  Android is a Linux based operating system for mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers.
  - Spring-Android Issue integrating RestTemplate by: Mick Knutson
    December 5, 2010, 19:49
    I started working on some REST client Android development. I have spent the past 1-2 month reading books, and just looking around the internet for good…
- Category: Hacking (2)
  Random hacking topics.
  - lessons learned from URL shortening by: Mick Knutson
    January 7, 2012, 15:42
    I 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…
  - vBulletin 4 Illegal Username Regular Expression issue and solution by: Mick Knutson
    January 7, 2012, 14:05
    I 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…
Category: Featured (2)
Featured Category
- Now is a time for CHANGE, not more hope that never comes! by: Mick Knutson
  February 10, 2012, 18:36
  Image everyone from the occupy . So those are the 99% huh? I think Ron Paul is the ONLY person that is NOT part of the 1% everyone is so unhappy about! If we…
- About BASE Logic, Inc & Mick Knutson by: Mick Knutson
  October 30, 2010, 14:01
  Mick Knutson Range of Experience: Mr. Knutson is a professional internet technology consultant, Java Architect, Java project leader,Engineer, Designer and…