Category: General

CharJUG is having its next meeting this Thursday. We’ll be having a technical introduction to IBM’s pervasive database technologies by Frank Koconis. Frank will also introduce the group to the new Cloudscape Network Server which allows a single Cloudscape database to support multiple concurrent JDBC or ODBC connections. Pizza and refreshments are provided, so come…

Last Thursday I had the pleasure of attending a meeting of the Charlotte Linux User’s Group – CharLUG. I had joined their mailing list the week before – something I had been meaning to do since I first heard about them late last year – and found they were looking for a new space to…

Last night we had a great presentation at the Charlotte Java User’s Group meeting on J2ME technologies by Chris Clark of MobileHWY, LLC. I posted the presentation up over on the CharJUG site for anyone interested.

The current project I am working on had a problem. The mobile users who were accessing the app were getting server 500 errors. But not from us, from the carrier’s proxy server. It seems our requests were taking too long, and the carrier’s proxy was just giving up. The only way to remedy this was…

Pretty straightforward tip – if you have a jar file you want to decompress, don’t have WinZip, but do have Cygwin, just rename the file with a .zip extension and use unzip in Cygwin to decompress it.

This morning’s breaking news: SpongeBob SquarePants is gay and lives under the ocean on a pineapple. At least that’s the impression from this CNN article. Choice quote: “The makers — the nonprofit We Are Family Foundation — say the video is designed to encourage tolerance and diversity. But at least two Christian activist groups say…

Securityfocus just published a fascinating article about Email honeypots. Basically the just of it is that a site publishes a page that contains a unique email address and a contract specifying the terms of use for that address, and that those addresses can not be harvested. If a robot comes along and takes the address,…

I got an email from a friend of mine who is building a BBS app that he wants to have threaded comments. Basically: – This is the top post    – This is the reply to the top       – This is the reply to the reply He’s using classic ASP, and was looking for a way…

The other day I get to work and realize I left a paper at the house that I need to have that morning. I can’t just print out a new one because it’s a document that can’t just be printed (like a check). Scanning it in is out of the question because the scanner we…

The current project I’m working on interfaces with a third-party screen-scraping robot. Actually, lots of them, it could be close to a thousand by the time all is said and done. The challenge was to create some sort of usable interface between the value structures the robot returns and the actual business objects that make…