Author Archives: grey

Posted on 2009-05-12 (Tuesday) by grey

NetBeans IDE 6.7 Beta Released

Netbeans 6.7 Beta is now released, try it out and help support the Netbeans team in their great work. You’ll find it and the release notes here: http://www.netbeans.org/community/releases/67/index.html

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Posted on 2009-05-01 (Friday) by grey

Using captchas with Kaptcha in your web applications

Even thou I don’t like captcha’s in general they can be handy so I wrote a tutorial on how to use them in a Java web application. See it at my playground: http://playground.greyscale.se/wiki/en/Captcha_witk_Kaptcha

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Posted on 2009-04-28 (Tuesday) by grey

Re-wrote the Connection Pooling post at my playground/wiki

Since I wasn’t happy with the formatting etc and that it quickly turned into the most viewed post in my blog I re-wrote it at my playground/wiki. See it at: http://playground.greyscale.se/wiki/en/MySQL_JDBC_Connection_Pooling_in_Tomcat Much nice formatting and screen shots etc.

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Posted on 2009-04-26 (Sunday) by grey

Icktjärn

Went for a walk at Icktjärn today http://gallery.greyscale.se/#1

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Posted on 2009-04-25 (Saturday) by grey

My Playground/Wiki

While writing the Tomcat/JDBC Connection Pooling post I realized that my blog wasn’t a good place for writing howto’s/tutorials due to the layout/design of it so I set up a wiki at http://playground.greyscale.se/ for doing that kind of stuff instead. … Read the rest of this entry →

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Posted on 2009-04-20 (Monday) by grey

Graphs of outdoor temperature in Kramfors (Sweden)

Got a graph script up and running with the 1-wire temperature sensor. You’ll find it in the left-side menu or at this link: http://www.greyscale.se/temperature.html

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Posted on 2009-04-19 (Sunday) by grey

1-wire temperature sensor

A couple of years ago we wanted to monitor the room temperature in the server room where I was working back then. After talking to a reseller of cooling equipment we found out that there was a add-on board that … Read the rest of this entry →

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Posted on 2009-04-18 (Saturday) by grey

Piratebay

Don’t think that it came as a suprise for most of us that they got convicted but what’s amazing is that they are to pay 30 million SEK to the “music industy”. And really amazing is that since 3 of … Read the rest of this entry →

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Posted on 2009-04-17 (Friday) by grey

MySQL JDBC Connection Pooling in Tomcat

I re-wrote this tutorial at my playground/wiki so please check it out there instead. It’s much better formatted and I added screen shots etc. http://playground.greyscale.se/wiki/en/MySQL_JDBC_Connection_Pooling_in_Tomcat Got myself together and played around a little with JDBC connection pooling with Tomcat an … Read the rest of this entry →

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Posted on 2009-03-02 (Monday) by grey

Snow sculpture

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