Paul Grenyer

I always say this and I'll say it again: London is a long way to go from Norwich for the evening. On this occasion it was worth it, as it always is for ACCU London . This dark, cold, late February evening had the added drawback of torrential rain. To make matters worse, while looking for the JP Morgan building at 125 London Wall, we got to the junction of Moorgate to find a sign suggesting we had been walking in the wrong direction. With faith in a printed google map and iPhone GPS we forged on another fifty yards and found 125 London Wall exactly where we expected. I have been in many offices belonging to a number of financial corporations and JP Morgan is no different to any of them, except for the lifts! Instead of calling the lifts by pressing a button next to them, you have to go to a set of small screens in the middle of the lobby. On one of these screens you select the floor you want and it indicates which lift you have to get in. The assigned lift then opens and takes you t...

EJB3 In Action By Debu Panda, Reza Rahman, Derek Lane ISBN-13: 978-1933988344 I bought and read this book as I wanted to learn about Enterprise Java Beans having only used Spring for Enterprise Java development up to this point. This is an excellent book for just that. It explains in a reasonable amount of detail what stableful and stateless session beans, message driven beans and entity beans are. After a number of chapters describing how to use session beans and a further chapter on message driven beans a large amount of the book is turned over to entity beans and the Java Persistence API. As a user of Hibernate I found going over a very similar API somewhat tedious in places, but I am sure this would not be the case for a novice ORM user. I also think Hibernate does it better. I found the general style of the book, although chatty, quite easy to read. Although the authors mention many of the areas where Spring has similar or even better functionality it is clear, as you would expect...

Ever since the company I work for changed to a Fortinet VPN I have been looking for a Linux client that will work with Ubuntu. Today I found one: forticlientsslvpn_linux_4.0.2010.tar.gz Install and use instructions can be found here .

If you want to reference one (master) Nexus repository from another (slave) Nexus repository this is what you have to do: Add 2 proxy repositories to the slave Nexus, one configured for releases and one configured for snapshots. Set the remote url in both to: http://<master>:<port>/nexus/content/groups/public Then add the releases proxy to the public group and the snapshots repository to the snapshots group. Thank you to Damian Bradicich of the nexus-users group for these instructions.