Archive for March, 2009

Spring Security Database Schema – Whitepaper and Examples

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

Since I've gotten a lot of requests for the white paper and examples for Spring Security, I'm posting them here so that anyone who is interested can download them, rather than my sending them out one request at a time: Whitepaper (PDF) Examples (ZIP) Thanks go out to my employer, Chariot Solutions, for ...

Posted in Chariot, Java, Spring | 8 Comments »

How To: set up ssh through NAT to a VirtualBox instance

Monday, March 30th, 2009

I'm currently participating in the private beta test of SpringSource's tcServer (more about that later), and in order to kick the tires on the remote management features, I'm setting up a couple of VirtualBox instances on which to install tcServer. I'd used VirtualBox before, and it compares favorably to VMWare in ...

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A Small Dose of jQuery

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

A recent web application project had several user interaction scenarios that I realized would be much more user-friendly if implemented using some RIA technology. If this were a large application, with a heavily-RIA interaface and some ramp-up time to burn, I would have considered either Flex or GWT. I've tried out ...

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VMWare 2.0 WebAccess Conflict with Existing Tomcat Installation

Monday, March 16th, 2009

I finally decided to move the applications from my one remaining Windows (XP) machine to a VMWare virtual machine - before it goes four-paws up. It seemed like a good time to update VMWare to the latest version, 2.0. The upgrade installed easily, as usual, but then, when I went to ...

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