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Category Archives: help notes
Installing private ruby gem in rails project using heroku
If you have a private gem, deploying to heroku can be frustrating.. In my case, I do not have even a server so I am not looking (yet) to set up a private rubygem server. I just have another project … Continue reading
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How to do variable/conditional SQL sorting order of results
I was jazzed today. I figured out how to conditional order of SQL results. Specifically being able to vary change the sorting order within the results based on a database field. Specifically, Create two tables Main and Secondary create table … Continue reading
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… and I nailed the javadoc
Yesterday was a red letter day. I found multiple bugs in the javac and javadoc. (1.6.0_17) This javadoc issue occurred when there is a class that has no package line ( it is in the default package). Annoyingly enough it … Continue reading
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Woot! I crashed the javac
My javac crash: An exception has occurred in the compiler (1.6.0_17). Please file a bug at the Java Developer Connection (http://java.sun.com/webapps/bugreport) after checking the Bug Parade for duplicates. Include your program and the following diagnostic in your report. Thank you. … Continue reading
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Generic annoyances in java
For some reason, the type variable <O> cannot flow through from an external caller through a callee to another called method. This compiles just fine in eclipse, but once again sun’s javac is temperamental. The three solutions seem to be: … Continue reading
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MacOSX and hostname
h/t Larry Gordon (copied because I want to make sure I always have it available): When I log into the network at my job my Mac’s hostname always turns to: larryx.na.corp.ipgnetwork.com I have my local hostname set to: larryx.local So … Continue reading
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where, oh where is the list of all those magic -XX java parameters?
The master list is here. But just in case it goes away here is the list (pruned for java 6): Option and Default Value Description -XX:-AllowUserSignalHandlers Do not complain if the application installs signal handlers. (Relevant to Solaris and Linux … Continue reading
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explain this
type parameters of T cannot be determined; no unique maximal instance exists for type variable T with upper bounds T,java.lang.Object In java 1.6u2 running in maven 2.0.7, we started getting this message but in eclipse 3.3.0 we were not. (and … Continue reading
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apache v. tomcat mysteries…
So I struggled for hours trying to get apache to connect via the ajp13 worker to tomcat 5.5 We are using a Debian box on the production server. Could not make it happen…. until I set the worker to be … Continue reading
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