Archive for April, 2009

Using the Rails Console

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

I've been working on a Ruby on Rails application for the last week or so, having never really worked with it before, beyond making some minor edits to some .rhtml files. It's an interesting environment, and I can definitely see it's place in the developer's toolbox. It's great if you have ...

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Mule – entry point for component with multiple methods

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

I've just started learning Mule, the open-source ESB that is an implementation of the patterns in the book Enterprise Integration Patterns (ISBN: 978-0321200686). As I started to look through the documentation and examples, I saw that the default way for the entry point into a component to be resolved is by ...

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SpringSource tcServer

Friday, April 3rd, 2009

Now that it's gone to public beta, I can talk about my evaluation during the private beta of SpringSource's tcServer. I only spent a few days with it, but I came  away impressed. SpringSource has put together a very solid product that should appeal to many. tcServer is actually a combination of ...

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VirtualBox – restoring the network after changing the MAC Address

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

As mentioned previously, I've been using Sun's VirtualBox to do some software evaluations requiring multiple servers. Until very recently (like an hour ago), I was using my laptop and one VirtualBox vm. Then, I decided to try a second vm. I cloned the vm, generated a new mac address for the ...

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