Oracle on Debian/Ubuntu
Sometimes my clients run Oracle databases. Sometimes they also ask me to do something with Oracle, like interfacing an application with it. I like to test such setups in my own lab first so that I don’t waste my client’s time on location.
I don’t have a permanent Oracle server up and running all the time […]
T2000: Judgement Day
T2000: Judgement Day
About a month ago I signed up for the Sun Fire T2000 try and buy program that Jonathan Schwartz announced on his blog. I thought that would be a good opportunity for me to learn about Solaris 10 and Sun hardware as I’ve mostly been busy with FreeBSD and mostly Linux deployments the […]
Mini GlassFish Review
Project GlassFish is Sun’s effort to produce a high quality and open source JEE5 application server. It is not a small task. They have hundreds of people working on this project and it will serve as the foundation of their future commercial product.
Reason for my interest is mostly JEE5; GlassFish is one of the very […]
Getting Started with Maven 2.0
I’ve always tried to avoid using Maven for complex projects because I thought it would make my already complex build process even more ‘interesting’. I was wrong. Big time.
Yesterday and today I’ve setup many little Maven 2.0 projects for simple standalone tests with Spring and standard web applications. It is really nice to be able […]