Why I prefer Andrew C. Oliver to write ‘drab’ articles

Andrew is confused why his ‘drab’ article on speeding up JBoss is much more popular than his repost of a deep voodoo article asking other people to implement someting that he finds interesting. I wonder!

I have linked to the speeding up article when I saw it, because it was something useful either immediately or later if . . . → Read More: Why I prefer Andrew C. Oliver to write ‘drab’ articles

Oh Tomcat of the multiple conflicting ports!

Ever tried running multiple Tomcat on the same machine and have that fail because of the port conflict. And not because of the HTTP listen port conflict – because you did know about that one and changed it. But, rather, because of the other ports that are open out of the box as well that even . . . → Read More: Oh Tomcat of the multiple conflicting ports!

Umlauts can crash and burn your (virtual) world

A pretty funny story from the game Second Life illustrating what happens when the USA-based virtual world developers only think they know the issues of internationalization (i18n for the geeks in you).

Next time I am logged-in, I will try typing in Russian and see whether that will do the trick as well. I wonder what the . . . → Read More: Umlauts can crash and burn your (virtual) world

Review: Log4j Chainsaw v2

Recently, I had been contacted by one of the Chainsaw‘s developers – Scott Deboy (no blog yet). He asked if I had any feedback on the tool’s new iteration as it would seem to be a good match to my interests and blog’s goal.

I had looked at the Chainsaw a while ago, but it was not . . . → Read More: Review: Log4j Chainsaw v2

Learning Finnish through knitting patterns

Task based language learning is supposed to give one the focus to learn language faster through general familiarity with the task and limited vocabulary. This approach fails spectacularly for one hard core knitter. Fortunately, internet is there to help. (via LanguageHat)
And if this situation is common for you, NativeText (WayBackMachine archive) is hoping to make a . . . → Read More: Learning Finnish through knitting patterns