Outer Thoughts

Have you ever run into classpath issues where you could have sworn the class was in a jar, the jar was on a classpath, yet you still got NoClassDefFoundError or ClassNotFoundException. Or perhaps you define several Classloaders in your application each with its own classpath and are not quite sure which one gets the priority in . . . → Read More: Troubleshooting ClassNotFoundException with Filemon (on Windows)

In my work as a BEA Tech Support engineer, I have to spend a lot of time dealing with XML content. In the past I tried to grep through the files, but had found that element order and random newlines make it quite hard. I have since found a solution.

Everybody who works with XML probably knows . . . → Read More: XMLStarlet: A gentle introduction into XSLT

One’s first post should be interesting. And what could make a techie’s post more interesting then the Vi vs. Emacs battle. So in my very first post allow me to declare my allegiance to Vi. Or to be more specific Vim.

But it would not be interesting to just announce my preferences and be done with that. . . . → Read More: A fitting first post: I love Vim