Archive for August, 2008

Scripting Yakuake

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

Yakuake has become an integral part of my desktop over the years. It's a drop-down terminal emulator, reminiscent of the old Quake console. It supports multiple tabs. When doing software development, this comes in very handy. At the moment, I have it running with 4 tabs - one running tomcat with ...

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Spring Security Database Schema

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

If your'e using JDBC Authentication with Spring Security, it's pretty easy to find the database schema required for the "default" JdbcDaoImpl. JdbcDaoImpl is pretty basic, though. It doesn't support the concept of true role-based security. It only has 'users' and 'authorities'. Sure, you can call ...

Posted in Chariot, Java, Spring | 22 Comments »

Secure Login with Spring Security 2.0

Monday, August 18th, 2008

If you are reading this, then I'm sure that you know that with the latest release, Spring's Acegi Security has been renamed  Spring Security. Much has changed. Setting up Spring Security for most applications now involves a drastically reduced amount of configuration xml, mostly thanks to the <http auto-config='true'> tag, which ...

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Subversion 1.5.1 on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron

Saturday, August 16th, 2008

I mostly use the excellent subclipse plug-in for Eclipse, and rarely use the command-line svn client. I tried to use the command-line client today with a project that had been checked out of subversion using subclipse, and found that the latest version of the svn client that installs by default on ...

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