A couple of days ago the new Ubuntu was released; version 11.10 named Oreiric Ocelot. more »

The VMWare machine for Mac OS, Fusion, has released a new version, v4. Since VirtualBox for Mac sucks (sorry, VirtualBox, it's true), I forked over $80 for VMWare's machine, Fusion. Unfortunately when I bought v3 I went the $20 cheaper route and bought… more »

The server running this blog (and other sites and other software) is a repurposed desktop. more »

In my more recent experimentations I'm finding that my first-pass, hasty testing of JDK7 on old projects is not as much of a failure as I'd thought it was. The problem lies not with my project, the IDE, the new JDK, or the old libraries, but with the co… more »

Not Eclipse so much, as the experience of using it. I guess they kind of go hand-in-hand, but I'm not ready to blame Indigo. New experimentation with Eclipse Indigo (3.7) brings me to the conclusion that the marketplace doesn't work. This seems to be a… more »

JDK7 doesn't seem to play nice with Spring 3.0.5 out of the box. I did my testing on an installation of Ubuntu running in a VM on my Mac. I've done this before running JDK6 and Eclipse Helios (3.6) or STS, so I know it works. I did a clean install and… more »

I've run into this from time-to-time, and usually not had to bother with it as authentication usually happens within an application, but on this project I'm trying to enforce the SSO a bit more, so I needed to get Apache to pass Tomcat the user that it h… more »