http://www.stuartwoodward.com/tech/ Notes of a Software Developer in Tokyo, Japan who still has a soft spot for C#, Java and Python en-us 2003-11-10T19:05:55+09:00 2006-07-10T09:27:06+09:00 I took me far to long to find this perl script to create release notes from a cvs log file again. It's worth running this after every build and posting it somewhere as the information it gives is far more readable than anything that CVS produces by itself.... http://www.stuartwoodward.com/tech/archives/000281.html Having your build run at least daily is considered a good idea if not essential: Daily Build... http://www.stuartwoodward.com/tech/archives/000273.html I always forget to put CVS.exe in my path and to set: CVSIGNORE=*.bak *.~* *.java~* *.*~ *.*~* *.java.bak HOME=C:\Documents and Settings\swoodward.STUART... http://www.stuartwoodward.com/tech/archives/000192.html While researching the reason for the "No results were returned by the query" error I found this interesting and kind of scary article: "From a number of experiments, it appears that the only way I can re-use a connection after it has asserted an SQLException is to issue a rollback() call on the connection."... http://www.stuartwoodward.com/tech/archives/000191.html Winmerge my favourite Win32 diffing and merging tool has just realease a new version. This is a great piece of software for your toolbox though I am a bit uncertain as to what the new features are in this realease. I think have added support for Visual Sourcesafe and some other versioning systems but don't quote me on that.... http://www.stuartwoodward.com/tech/archives/000190.html Chandler Notes. Ever since I joined Lotus and played with Lotus Agenda I have been interested in what Mitch Kapor is up to. It's really painful to see Chandler being developed out in the open as I want to use it today! I'm really hoping that it will be as powerful if not more powerful than Agenda on it's first release. Then anticipation is killing me!... http://www.stuartwoodward.com/tech/archives/000186.html I'm doing some work now with a set top box but before I can use it I need to prepare a machine which has a TV "video in" port to view it on. Luckily I have a machine at hand. I reinstalled XP from scratch on it as I prefer the English version over the Japanese. If you use the English version you can add Japanese reading and writing capabilities to it easily but if you install the Japanese version unless you are multinational company with clout you can't even purchase the English language pack to add English menus to... http://www.stuartwoodward.com/tech/archives/000185.html Yesterday we had a question from a customer regarding the behaviour of one our Servlets. In the end it seemed that it was loosing the session information when they went back in the browser. I can understand why, as they actually cross domains doing in going back. (Don't ask why their store is spread over two domains). When customers cross to the second domain they are not sending a cookie, the servlet puts new session information in the urls and the session is getting restarted. From the support point of view it also seems that the problem is only related... http://www.stuartwoodward.com/tech/archives/000179.html Hmm read this Unix Administration Course lecture notes to know all those things that your System Administrator is doing without telling...... http://www.stuartwoodward.com/tech/archives/000176.html Here's a great example of a University project: A site which explains how to write CGIs in Python.... http://www.stuartwoodward.com/tech/archives/000150.html Luke Hutteman's Weblog posts: Now that's a sharp idea!: Looks like JetBrains (IntelliJ) are considering doing a C# IDE.... http://www.stuartwoodward.com/tech/archives/000148.html You can't think enough about backups. This paper by Sun Planning Your Backup Architecture is food for thought. I'm waiting for the day when I have the power to confisicate any hard drive in the company. Like a fire drill, I should be able to confiscate any single hard drive and say, "Now what are you going to do?" The time and date will be random but it will happen to everyone once a year. If you can't recover within an hour you get your drive back but you have to have the dummy doll on top of your monitor... http://www.stuartwoodward.com/tech/archives/000126.html Is JavaScript the World's Most Misunderstood Programming Language? Douglas Crockford seems to think so... "It was originally called LiveScript, but that name wasn't confusing enough." ROTFL... http://www.stuartwoodward.com/tech/archives/000123.html Once you start thinking about creating a WebService that is for business use you are going to have to start to think about security. Securing Web Services covers many of the current intiatives in a field that is moving very quickly.... http://www.stuartwoodward.com/tech/archives/000109.html Federated Network Identity is the title of a thoughtful mail posted to the RISKS digest about the consequences of "single sign on" systems such as Microsoft Passport or the Liberty Alliance Project. The basic gist is that right now we have a certain amount of anonymity when we surf the net but that would be diminished if sites used a federated network identity. The information that you are willing to pass to one site is not necessarily the same as you would be willing to pass to another. Do people really want to remove the hassle of having to log... http://www.stuartwoodward.com/tech/archives/000108.html