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Running Oracle XE on Mac OSX using virtualised JeOS

Thursday, August 27, 2009

So Oracle in its wisdom doesn’t have Mac OSX version of its free database. This is of course really annoying to Mac users who need to develop systems that use Oracle databases – Oracle XE is a great little database especially for development environments. Recently I found myself in a situation where I would be [...]

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Hosts and subdomains and infrastructure deployment

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

It always amazes me how many IT infrastructure managers apparently fail to understand just what a ‘subdomain’ is. How many of the developers reading this blog entry have ever been confronted with the situation of deploying their applications onto infrastructure that’s named like the following? Local development: localhost, localhost, localhost, joes-dev-box Development / Integration: tomcatdev-svr1, [...]

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Upgrading to Maven 2.1.0 on Macintosh OS X

Monday, March 23, 2009

Recently I found a Maven plugin that wouldn’t run under Maven version 2.0.6, and I had to upgrade it on my Macintosh. I quickly discovered the usual *nix upgrade (unpack, then update ${PATH}) didn’t seem to work, as the Macintosh OS X 10.5 comes with Maven pre-installed in /usr/share/ directory. Tip – I found where [...]

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UNIX simplicity and agility

Sunday, February 15, 2009

In the course of a series of comments around my post about Oracle’s ADF, I started to think about “vendors” and their technology stacks.  Of all the big vendors whose technology comes closest to playing nice with Agile development and (especially) agile engineering practise and discipline (e.g. test-driven design, pair programming, fearless refactoring, etc), I [...]

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