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Sometimes (when your are developing) you may want to force fetching all content fresh all the time including images, resources such as style sheet etc. To facilitate this you can do the following: Open a new window or tab in Firefox. Type about:config in the address bar. Search for &#

The directions below will help you move the Grails user work and cache directory to a different location. Why? Sometimes your default “primary drive” may be running out of space and you need to move your workspace else where. How? Create a file called “settings.groov

IntelliJ - Live Template - main() method generation Type “psvm” Ctrl+J will generate the main method. Why “psvm”? “public static void main”

If you are wondering why when you make a POJO bean to implement Serializable, IntelliJ does not throw any warnings to create the serialVersionUID variable… It’s because you need to enable it. Here’s how: Cheers!

How to extract public key from certificate? Recently I had to extract the public key from a certificate. Each time I do this I end up looking up the man pages for openssl and so I thought I’d blog it for myself and for others to use when needed. $ openssl x509 -inform pem -in ce

One of the questions posed by a friend of mine is this. In a typical website-application, you spawn a few child windows here and there and because of the nature of the application, you do not have a handle to all the child windows you spawn open… Then how do you close all the ch

Case #1: When the Tomcat config is this: Observe the “path” element in the “Context”. Then… http://localhost/index.jsp yields to the “index.jsp” under HelloWorld folder. http://localhost/HelloWorld/index.jsp yields to a “404 Page”. Case #2: When the Tomcat setu

Sometimes you need a way to extract all images in a PDF but then you have a directory of files and you need to extract them iteratively. Prerequisites: 1. Install Cygwin or linux environment with Perl support. 2. Install ImageMagick. 3. Install GhostScript. Afterward run the following

Adding custom jars under "WEB-INFlib" in a Maven project

Weblogic 10.3 Heap Size (does not allow 3072mb)

Adding custom jars to your maven war file under "web-inflib" folder.

GWT and Spring Integration - java.net.InetAddress is a restricted class

Common porting error to JBoss AS6 - "Failed to resolve schema nsURI= location=persistence"

questions and thoughts about twitter

Weblogic 10.3 - Using clear passwords while in production mode

Notable difference between Ant 1.7.x and 1.8.x - path and pathelement

Words of Wisdom - Our paradox of our time in history

Listen to Tamil Music on an Android Phone.

where is the javax.servlet jar in Weblogic 10.3 and up?

Starting yesterday the Apache JackRabbit JCR website had an interesting problem. Someone must have made a change to the base template such that they had removed the SyntaxHighlighter code that needs to be appended to the header. I’ve opened an issue in their jira issue tracker.