Category Archives: Outrospective.org

I’ve been looking to put my thoughts down for a while

This blogger thing sounds promising…. we will see

3 cool technologies I discovered over summer.

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Kon

Today I finish up my ‘holidays’ but I did want to write a quick post about the cool stuff I’d been looking at. Firstly, the LMAX Disruptor pattern. I didn’t think you could fall for a pattern until I came … Continue reading →

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Rick Wagner’s Blog: How to find which .jar a class is in (easily)

Posted on October 26, 2010 by Kon

Holy heck, I needed this earlier today Rick Wagner’s Blog: How to find which .jar a class is in (easily). Makes mention of JBoss’ tattletale utility. The comments also mention the Java Class Finder plugin for Eclipse (I used the … Continue reading →

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Glassfish V3.0.1 and Update Tool

Posted on October 25, 2010 by Kon

When installing plugins for glassfish at work I would receive a Premature EOF just after accepting the license terms for the plugin. This would occur regardless of method used, updatetool cli, gui or web. Strangely it worked at home, but … Continue reading →

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Serialization under the magnifying glass

Posted on October 24, 2010 by Kon

The Java serialization algorithm revealed | JavaWorld’s Daily Brew. A good post about what happens when Java takes your class and serializes it, including its fields, parents and collaborators and the class definitions of the object and the parents and collaborators involved.

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Deploying grails 1.3.x war to glassfish

Posted on October 21, 2010 by Kon

This was a recent bug bear which may be a regression from 1.2.x line When you deploy to Glassfish you get an error message An error has occurred There is no installed container capable of handling this application com.sun.enterprise.deploy.shared.FileArchive@1e46947 The … Continue reading →

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Net Neutrality

Posted on August 22, 2010 by Kon

Recently a colleague sent me a link to an online petition regarding the concept of Net Neutrality being under threat by a recent deal between Verizon and Google.  http://www.commoncause.org/site/pp.asp?c=dkLNK1MQIwG&b=1234951 The dialog signals a prioritisation of internet traffic for the rich, … Continue reading →

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Patellar Tendinitis

Posted on June 19, 2009 by Kon

I have a contact in the health-fitness industry point me in the direction of this condition after I explained I was having an on/off pain under my kneecap. http://www.athleticadvisor.com/Injuries/LE/Knee/patellar_tendinitis.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patellar_reflex Need a map?  http://www.innerbody.com/image/skel12.html http://orthopedics.about.com/cs/patelladisorders/a/kneecapdisloc.htm (not this bad, thank goodness) … Continue reading →

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T-Minus

Posted on September 8, 2008 by Kon

8 September – Important testing for product release 12 September – One week till eye surgery (no more contacts, if I had any to wear)… features for release need to be done! 17 September – Software Product Release 19 September … Continue reading →

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Jobs Quick Tips

Posted on April 4, 2007 by Kon

I clicked on a My Career ad and ended up with some help

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Conversations with Neale Donald Walsh

Posted on March 18, 2007 by Kon

Last night I went to a movie screening of Conversations with God.  This was based on the excellent books by Neale Donald Walsh and was about the circumstances in his life that led him to write the books. There was … Continue reading →

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