August 2009
21 posts
4 tags
Getting Solaris 10 to Authenticate Against...
Brief History: I’m busy setting up a new debug/staging environment at work so that we can consolidate the many tens of old FreeBSD 4.4 (ohgod) and Solaris 9/10 servers into a few distinct Solaris 10 servers. Personally, I would have gone with some sort of Linux distro, but for some reason somebody thinks that Solaris is the way to go. Now, if we were switching to OpenSolaris, I might not...
I unlocked the Coming Down! achievement on Red Faction: Guerrilla! http://ping.fm/1wBha
DoneDone guys got back to me - seems that there is a cookie coming back that I need to rip out and send back in with other requests. Eek!
I unlocked the Bling achievement on Trials HD! http://ping.fm/rxjFl
I unlocked the Tank Buster achievement on Red Faction: Guerrilla! http://ping.fm/6hEDt
DoneDone SOAP API doesn’t seem to be working (for me, at any rate) and JIRA 3.8’s SOAP API uses RPC encoding, which JAX-WS 2.0 doesn’t like.
Using DoneDone Web Services with Apache CXF 2.2.x
I ran into an issue while trying to hook into DoneDone’s web services. Apparently all of the session management in .NET web services is done at the header/cookie level, which is not really a SOAP standard. Given that I’m using Java (CXF specifically), I needed to do some horrible hackery to make this work. Here is the net result! Note: please realize that it is 1:40 on Sunday...
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I unlocked the The Challenger achievement on Trials HD! http://ping.fm/cRG73
Game reviews: Red Faction - terrific. Trials HD - tons of fun. Batman - Arkham Asylum demo - need the full game already!
Weird, custom reCAPTCHA validation doesn’t seem to play nice with HttpClient, but is okay with manual URLConnection stuff. Bah.
Technology Kills
Reading about clouds and using big distributed datastores and crazy caching… I have to remind myself that scalability is something you think of during the initial phase, but don’t worry about until you start hitting ceilings. Always have to tell myself to get something out rather than get sidetracked by features.
I have to admit that a part of me dies a bit whenever I read a blog post about somebody liking a tag-based MVC framework over Wicket.
So, TTC, is there a reason why you screwed all the windows shut on a brand new bus, then let the driver not turn the AC on? We were all wet.
Does Safari 4 have issues with multiple monitors? A lot of popup windows are on my main window, which is where Safari is NOT.
Methinks rounded button background image is a better way to go instead of JS cruft.
As always, managed to be 15 seconds late for the streetcar. It is a rare skill…
Baguette, salami and some cambozola - keep me powered while I do the work thing.
Scripting a trigger for Perforce is tons of fun. Really.
Angelina Jolie is Scary
Apparently Angelina Jolie reverted to old form by wearing a leather dress to the premiere of Inglorious Basterds - the new Quentin Tarantino flick that I’m planning on seeing. Many a blog was raving about how terrific she looked, how she can show everyone else up, etc, etc. Me? I was wondering if they were blind - she looks like she has an eating disorder and is trying to mimic a...
Dear Enbridge Electric
Dear Enbridge Electric Connections: I know that we had some unhappy moments when we first started our relationship those many moons ago, but I thought we had moved beyond them. Apparently, I am both delusional and horribly wrong. While I was looking away, it seems that you met up with Bell, Rogers and the rest of those monopolies out behind the portables and picked up some bad habits. I expect...