Part of the beauty of JSP development is the easy of trying out the change. All you have to do is edit the JSP file, save it and reload the page. Yesterday I got caught by surprise by not being able to do exactly that. I saw some strange behaviour in an EL expression used [...]
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Tomcat 5 not reloading changes in JSP
2011/07/24How to show preview for CHM file in Leopard
2007/12/10The CHM files (Microsoft compiled HTML help files) are often used for eBooks. They are readable on OS-X using excellent open source CHMOX application. If you want to get more useful preview in OuickView than the not very helpfull static icon, get this plugin. Download here https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.p…group_id=211847 How to install it: Unzip it, take the [...]
Taking the pain off installation
2007/12/08I was trying to set up an Oracle appliance – install the Oracle Express XE into a virtual machine. What (in my mind) should be smooth and straightforward process was something very different. I should have been forewarned warned after seeing the discussion … To make long story short, the installer failed on three different [...]
Reading source code considered harmful ?
2007/10/17Every software developer will tell you how frustrating it is to trace problem in your application up to the point of third party library call (jar file or .dll / .so – make your choice) – and then have to resort to trial and error exploration, because you have no source code for that particular [...]
Good book on Spring Framework version 2
2007/09/12During my recent return to Javaland, I have noticed many improvements in newer releases of well established frameworks and toolkits, as well as many new ones. One such new release is version 2 of Spring framework. It is not really a hot news, because the final version of 2.0 is out for almost a year [...]
Book review: Dreaming in Code
2007/07/02Thanks to long weekend and more quiet time in last couple of days (Happy 140th Birthday, Canada!), I managed to read something else than Ruby-ism/Rail-ism. Among others, I finished the Dreaming in Code by Scott Rosenberg, a book promising to explain why software is hard. It is pretty tough question to answer. The way this [...]
MSDN Documentation – the worst in class ?
2007/06/14Did it ever happened to you that you were using some tool day after day – and never realized it’s pretty big deficiencies ? Until somebody, coming from different background pointed out what everything is wrong with the tool ? Before that moment of revelation, the issues were just inconvenience, but right after that they [...]
Martin Fowler's article on Ruby and Microsoft
2007/06/03There has been lots of interesting news related to Microsof and Ruby recently, mostly about DLR’s support of dynamic languages. One of my favorite tech authors stirred the waters once again last Friday with an article that goes beyond this and tries to paint larger picture of the uneasy relation between Ruby platform, Agile movement, [...]
