So, this week, for some reason, the site reported ‘Error Establishing a Database Connection’ Searching the web I found out that wordpress, from version 2.3.1, has a debug feature. In wp-config.php simply add define(‘WP_DEBUG’, true);. Once I had done this I got a nice little error telling me exactly what was wrong. I like things […]
Read More »After trawling around the web trying to find a list of all the -webkit css properties for Safari and iOS I found this website css-info.net. Link for -webkit properies is at the bottom of the page. Anyone found a better site?
Read More »I use Hudson for my build server and when it polled my SCM to check for changes it always invoked a build, regardless of any changes or not! Console ouput has this line svn: Failed to add directory ‘ejb/generated’: an unversioned directory of the same name already exists This was because the build script, as […]
Read More »Give the full path to your log4j.properties file as below -Dlog4j.configuration=file:/C:/workspace/project/etc/log4j/log4j.properties
Read More »I turned off the debug option on the ant task javac and my code coverage went upto 100%. This is because the debug option is to do with the javac –g option which compiles the code with debugging information such as line numbers etc. My code coverage couldn’t identify any debug information in my class […]
Read More »When compiling code to another version other than the used javac sdk, you need to also set the -bootclasspath, otherwise you will still end up binging your .class files to the sdk version API classes of your javac. You wont get any issues at compile time, but you could at runtime. To set this up […]
Read More »Because self signed certificates are not signed by what is known as a Trusted Certificate Authority like Verisign, Java will reject any connection to it .The Java SE comes with a set of Trusted Certificate Authorities which is in $JAVA_HOMEjrelibsecuritycacerts file and you have to add yourself to this if you want it to work […]
Read More »I found this to be happening in alot of the log files. Further investigation I found out that it happens because, part of the response is already sent to the client, including the header information, and then we were trying to manipulate that header information in some some jsp include files. Basically you cannot set/change […]
Read More »Not worked out why or how this can happen but in one of my Action classes, the Struts framework decided to pass my Action a null ActionMapping reference.
Read More »In struts you can define a global exception handler which is used as a catch all so you can display some meaningful page to the users. The path definition must be a path to a page and not a struts action or tiles definition path. When you think about this it makes sense otherwise you […]
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