Good article from BEA about how to write JSR-168 compliant Portlets: http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/a/2006/12/writing-jsr-168-portlets.html

These days there isn’t much you have to do to configure iPod support for Linux. On either Debian or Ubuntu you need to make sure your a member of the plugdev group. To add yourself to the goup do the following either using sudo or as root: useradd -g plugdev username Where username, is the [...]

It’s cold, and I’ve a cold and it’s the weekend! FECK! Was supposed to head down to NYC to see cousin John whose visiting the States for a couple of weeks. Looks like I’ll head down there next weekend instead. Achoo!

2498 My desktop at home is a system I assembled myself: CPU: AMD 64 3200+ Venice 2.0GHz Socket 939 Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI Memory: 2GB of Kingston ValueRAM 1GB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Video Card: eVGA GeForce 6600GT PCI-Express I’d like to upgrade the CPU to a AMD dual-core processor, ZipZoomFly has the [...]

Is borked! First, changes to some spring projects that it depends on broke the Jetspeed. Jetspeed uses Maven 2, so the spring it uses is an imported Maven project which had a depenceny that wasn’t required and was undownloadable and causes the Jetspeed build to fail. Now I get an error that few people can [...]

My last pair of glasses broke!. I’ve been using an old, scratched-up pair for the past few weeks. Went to the Optician’s yesterday (Saturday) for the eye-exam; my perscription hasn’t changed which is good news! But, I was a wee bit hung-over from drinking some really fine Belgium beers at Deep Ellum, a new bar [...]

Flash 9 was released a few days ago and Debian has packages to install it! But, it, at least for me, hasn’t made it’s way out to the repositories. You can download the package using wget: wget http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/contrib/f/flashplugin-nonfree/flashplugin-nonfree_9.0.31.0.1_i386.deb Then install it using dpkg either as root or using sudo: sudo dpkg -i flashplugin-nonfree_9.0.31.0.1_i386.deb Also, make [...]

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About me: Software Engineer in Boston. Using Linux for years. From Ireland.