In response to a comment left about an earlier blog entry, I discovered how to start up a JSP container on port 80. Just run the startup command (such as http://www.simongbrown.com/blog/httpd.sh for Resin) under a sudo. sudo http://www.simongbrown.com/blog/httpd.sh Also, don't forget to shutdown your...

It looks like Jeremy is trying to relive his childhood at the next London Java Meetup (16th February) by organising a Java Book Swap Shop! I've been meaning to have a clearout for a while and after a quick look through some boxes (I moved house before Christmas) I've found the following that I'm prepared to swap for other books or, failing...

It looks like Jeremy is trying to relive his childhood at the next London Java Meetup (16th February) by organising a Java Book Swap Shop! I've been meaning to have a clearout for a while and after a quick look through some boxes (I moved house before Christmas) I've found the following that I'm prepared to swap for other books or, failing...

I downloaded the latest version of Pebble today in order to set up an internal blog for news on my current project. Less than 5 minutes and I was up and running ... extract the WAR file and drop it under $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/, edit the web.xml file and add a user to the Tomcat configuration. Your blogging software is that easy to set up too,...

I downloaded the latest version of Pebble today in order to set up an internal blog for news on my current project. Less than 5 minutes and I was up and running ... extract the WAR file and drop it under $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/, edit the web.xml file and add a user to the Tomcat configuration. Your blogging software is that easy to set up too,...

An interesting thread started up on JavaRanch about the new Java 1.4.2 update for Mac OS X. I'll let you read it for yourself, but essentially I never realised that there is an additional Java developer package that you can download from the Apple Developer Connection (login required). It's a 50Mb download and contains...

An interesting thread started up on JavaRanch about the new Java 1.4.2 update for Mac OS X. I'll let you read it for yourself, but essentially I never realised that there is an additional Java developer package that you can download from the Apple Developer Connection (login required). It's a 50Mb download and contains...

I had a sample of the iKlear cleaning cloths kicking around and after owning a PowerBook for over 6 months, decided that it was about time to clean the screen. These things are great (recommended by Apple) and I wish I had done it sooner. Not particularly cheap here in the UK but worth it, particularly if you only clean your LCD infrequently!...

I had a sample of the iKlear cleaning cloths kicking around and after owning a PowerBook for over 6 months, decided that it was about time to clean the screen. These things are great (recommended by Apple) and I wish I had done it sooner. Not particularly cheap here in the UK but worth it, particularly if you only clean your LCD infrequently!...

At last, Mac users have a way to video chat with people running Windows. Don't get me wrong, I do really like my Mac, but you do often feel you're in the minority! Take Yahoo! Messenger, for example, you can video chat but there's no audio in the Mac version. The iChat AV 2.1 beta download page says the...

It's been a bit hectic over the past few days but I finally got around to uploading Pebble 1.4 beta 2 to the SourceForge servers. If you're interested, you can get it here. The changes are as follows. Added useful links to the admin panel. PEB-2 : Remove Comment and TrackBack links from RSS feed PEB-5 : Invalid day of 31...

Beta 2 of Pebble 1.4 is almost ready. I've made most of the code changes and just want to test out this release on my server for a day or so while I fix up some more of the minor issues that have been raised. Feel free to grab the CVS head to test out the issues that have been resolved in 1.4 beta 2 or look at the roadmap (this is a cool...

Beta 2 of Pebble 1.4 is almost ready. I've made most of the code changes and just want to test out this release on my server for a day or so while I fix up some more of the minor issues that have been raised. Feel free to grab the CVS head to test out the issues that have been resolved in 1.4 beta 2 or look at the roadmap (this is a cool...

Mock objects are the subject of several blogs again this week and they reminded me of a question that several people have asked me. In a web application, how do you unit test an MVC action? In a previous blog entry, I highlighted the differences between implementations of the Servlet specification when it comes down to...

Mock objects are the subject of several blogs again this week and they reminded me of a question that several people have asked me. In a web application, how do you unit test an MVC action? In a previous blog entry, I highlighted the differences between implementations of the Servlet specification when it comes down to...