Category Archives: Java

Why Java Sucks For Sysadmins??? Don’t think so ;)

Even thou I like Java I had a laught while reading this old blog post http://www.wekk.net/blog/2009/05/05/why-java-sucks-for-sysadmins/ Much have been fixed since that time but Java can still be a complex platform for some Many times I been wishing for a … Read the rest of this entry

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Internet Explorers odd behavior when reciving a 404

Got a question from a customer at work a while ago about why he couldn’t get his custom 404-page (page/resource not found) to work. The simple answer was that the page worked… as long as you didn’t use Internet Explorer. … Read the rest of this entry

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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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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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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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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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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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