Raible Designs

Tomcat 4.1.27 Hotfix

FYI - there's a patch for Tomcat 4.1.27 to fix the webapp reload bug. To install, download into your $CATALINA_HOME directory and execute:

tar xzf 4.1.27-hotfix-22096.tar.gz

Eclipse in Action at Denver JUG next week

Next week, David Gallardo (an Author of Eclipse in Action) will be doing a presentation at the Denver Java User Group. I'll be there for the JDOM presentation in the Basic Concepts group as well. There's a short review of Eclipse in Action vs. Java Developer's Guide To Eclipse over at JavaRanch.

... after reading both books in the past week, I come to the conclusion that the two books serve very different purposes. I would like to have them both on my desk.

Two things I'm looking for...

It's getting late and I'd rather go to bed then venture on another internet search adventure. Here's what I'm looking for:

• A tool or application to convert an Access database to MySQL.
• A tool or application to grab my .Mac Photo Album so I can host it on my own server.

The wait is almost over

The ZX7 shipped today. The wait is almost over. The told me they'd overnight it yesterday, so it's a day late (so far). I hope my relationship with Hypersonic doesn't develop into another love hate relationship.

Help me architect Struts Resume

I've come up with a few issues for Struts Resume that I need some feedback on. Let's just get right to them. * How should I assign skill groups and skills to a resume? * Resume Templates - should I do something like Roller or simpler? * Can I produce PDF or RTF from a Velocity template? I've [elaborated more|StrutsResumeArchitecture] on my wiki. Please post your feedback via comments or on the wiki.

Update: Thanks to Mathius, I was able to implement a simple XHTML and RTF (Word) version of a simple resume today. I don't think Velocity will be the only option, I think I'm going to have to have an XSL Transformation Servlet as well, and the user will be able to choose Velocity templates or XML/XSL/FO. But that will be in a later version of Struts Resume. For 1.0, I'm going to concentrate on getting a resume updateable and presentable - PDF will be a post-1.0 option. The main reason for this is because I think I can release a 1.0 version before my next gig starts. After I start, it might be quite a while until I can get some time to work on it again.

Enthusiasm Fading

My enthusiasm for maintaining this blog is fading. Not because I don't like to blog and discover new things, but because I'm not discovering anything new. The root of my lack-of-discovery phase is because my day job has become incredibly boring. Not because of what I'm doing, but because I'm not doing anything. Sure, there's documentation and JavaDoc cleanup to do - but this stuff numbs the mind. There's no compiling. There's no joy in making something work. I'll be onto a new gig soon since next Friday is my last day. And I'll tell you what - I can't freakin' wait.

The deeper root of the problem is my obsession with productivity. Even though I'm getting paid to "mothball" the project, I feel inadequate for not learning anything new. I need to be productive to enjoy my day at work. Isn't that sad?!

If I'm good, I'll convince myself to be unproductive and to take a week or two off before starting the next cool project. From August 15th - September 1st, that's my goal. Who knows if my future employer/client will go for it, but it sure would be nice.

Tomcat Updates

Tomcat 5.0.6 Alpha is now available for testing. [Download, Change Log]. The same setup steps seem to apply for this release as with the 5.0.4 and 5.0.5.

In other news, I struggled with Tomcat 4.1.27's webapp reload bug for much of the evening last night. I'd say it's not a big deal in a production environment (where you don't reload webapps much), but it's a real pain in the ass for development. I'll be reverting back to 4.1.24.

One year ago

I missed it by a couple of days. As of Friday, I have been blogging for one year. Happy birthday to the blogging version of this site.

Weekend Update

Julie and Abbie are in San Diego this weekend, visiting Julie's sister (Holly). The new house is great - being so close to everything. Life is good - the new laptop scheduled for delivery (overnight) on Tuesday. Too bad about Mike, I had a heavy heart reading his post - hope everything works out.

[ANNOUNCE] Tomcat 4.1.27 Stable Released

The Tomcat Team announces the immediate availability of Apache Tomcat 4.1.27 Stable. Among other bugfixes and improvements, Tomcat 4.1.27 includes security fixes for:

- Improper recycling of SSL client certificates with Coyote JK 2
- Improper handling of invalid content lengths in requests, causing HTTP processors to be left in an invalid state in Coyote HTTP/1.1, causing a DoS condition
- URI normalization bug in Coyote
- Improper handling of certain URLs in Coyote JK 2, causing a DoS condition

Downloads: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.cgi

I upgraded this site this morning (from 4.1.24) - everything seems to be humming along just fine.