From the monthly archives:

October 2007

Upgrading to Ubuntu 7.10

October 28, 2007

I’ve been running Ubuntu on my laptop for a while now - I think I started with 6.10 and then reinstalled when 7.04 came out, and just now I’ve done a clean install of 7.10. It hasn’t gone totally smoothly though. I’ve had problems with wireless, suspend and hibernate.
I was hoping 7.10 would resolve most [...]

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No SilverLight for Linux?

October 28, 2007

I’ve just been to the MLB video site, and it tells me that I’ll need to install SilverLight to view the videos! Following the links to install it takes you to the Microsoft site where I find out its only available for Windows and OS X. Searching Google it looks as though the Linux version [...]

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What to do when your domain class won’t save

October 27, 2007

When developing with Grails and GORM, if a domain class fails validation when calling the save() method, you won’t get an exception - save() just returns false! This is mentioned in the Gotchas page and to find out what went wrong, it suggests looking in the errors.allErrors property of your domain class.
To do this, would [...]

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Tomcat with Apache2 Virtual Hosts

October 20, 2007

Using Apache2 with named virtual hosts is standard, but what do you do when you want to put an application on Tomcat behind these hosts?
Thats simple too…
Lets say you have configured two virtual hosts in Apache:

host1.javathinking.com
host2.javathinking.com

and you have two java applications you want running in Tomcat behind these virtual hosts.
To configure Tomcat-5.5.20 with named virtual [...]

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Developing with Grails and Apache2

October 1, 2007

In production I use Apache2 in front of Tomcat. The configuration for this is quite simple and standard. However, while developing Grails applications I wanted to run the same configuration, so that there are very few differences between my development and production environments. In Apache, I use named virtual hosts to forward to Tomcat, and [...]

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