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Oppenheimer – go listen.

simonm — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 01:20:35 +0000

You need to go and listen to this, pure class.

http://www.myspace.com/oppenheimer

http://www.oppenheimermusic.co.uk

[name dropping]
Rocky worked at a recording studio I used to break stuff at..
[/name dropping]

Hacking about with Java class files

simonm — Tue, 08 May 2007 10:34:07 +0000

I’ve recently been involved in migrating some old JBoss web portal applications from one physical location to another, along the way there were some new security hurdles to jump, including moving all URLs from http to https.

One of the components in this service had a hard coded URL to the http address. We could have fixed this with an Apache rewrite rule, but the security folks would still have been on our backs. The source code is long lost (AFAIK) and it probably would have taken ages to create a suitable build environment anyways.

What I needed was a class file editor. CafeBabe to the rescue! More details here. This great little tool allowed be to edit the String in the class file, all I needed to do then was rebuild the jar file, stop JBoss, slip it into the filesystem over the old JAR with the bad url in it, restart JBoss & hey presto!

Things to do at a job interview

simonm — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 17:45:22 +0000

http://positivesharing.com/2007/03/some-killer-questions-to-ask-in-your-next-job-interview/

Terrorist in the making.

simonm — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 22:57:15 +0000

suspicion2.jpg (JPEG Image, 700×938 pixels)

Are you a terrorist and you don’t even know it?

More what he said:

simonm — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 10:35:46 +0000

http://www.eoghanmccabe.com/naive-by-design/irish-web-app-development-a-team-to-the-rescue/

Why a Career in Computer Programming Doesn’t Suck

simonm — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 20:42:12 +0000

Yeah, what he said:

http://formerslacker.com/blog/2007/03/12/why-a-career-in-computer…

Best Ruby on Rails tutorial yet

simonm — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 00:00:16 +0000

Kudos to Tom Rossi over at the www.themolehill.com, where I have just read one of the best intro’s to RoR yet, simple, clean & informative.

Many of the articles I have read over recent months either work too hard at showing how quickly you can do stuff, or how brief Ruby is, without giving the detail to help put the pieces of the puzzle together. (i.e. I’m a system admin coder/hacker, I know what MVC is, but I’ve never used it in anger, I’m used to scripting out problems & fiddling with databases)
You can jump into the aricle here.

Ditching Windows – again..

simonm — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 11:20:34 +0000

I changed jobs back in October 2005, and became a Microsofty again (well, only on my work laptop), at the weekend I lost it again and ditched XP in favour of Ubuntu Edgy Eft, ‘cos getting Debian on a laptop and getting all the funky bits working is just too much like hardwork.

One of the companies I work for uses OWA for all non-corporate laptop email access.

OWA for Ex2k3 sucks on anything but IE. Some kind soul has scripted up an IE6 installation using Wine. Love it.

http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Installation:Ubuntu

http://www.debianadmin.com/running-internet-explorer…

Excel is evil…

simonm — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 12:53:26 +0000

..or has the potential to be in the wrong hands.

http://neopoleon.com/home/blogs/neo/archive/2003/09/29/5458.aspx

Flock that

simonm — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 04:27:35 +0000

Flock Start Page

Playing with Flock, the last time I looked, it wasn’t worth the effort, but then I didn’t blog or do flickr…maybe it will be more useful this time round.

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