So far, the weather was really nice here in central CA, but even so, winter is coming and with it the daylight leaves earlier. Maybe the little monkey to the left can give you a suggestion, what to do with those longer evenings;-) Find a good book, a warm blanket, and have fun;-) — Marco
We manage a couple of Bugzilla installations. For some stacks, the Bugzilla admins manage many or even all products, but they still don’t have shell access to the backend servers. In order to make the live for those people a bit easier, I added a simple SQL edit form to the Administration page for those… Read More »
I just played a bit with the GlassFish gem for JRuby. But I realized that there was a new version for GF out there but the gem was not updated. A short search @ google did not show anything, and I had the build environment setup already. My Gem is here;-) So here are the… Read More »
OK, so it’s swim season again for the Tracy Tritons. And we are going to host a big meet with 700+ swimmers age 4 to 18 years plus their families. Our biggest concern is to make sure, everybody has updated information so that the meet can flow smoothly without much waiting for swimmers or volunteers.… Read More »
OK, we saw some ‘Too many connections‘ errors related to MySQL in various log files for the netbeans.org infrastructure. The easiest way to fix that, would be to increase the max_connections setting and be done with it. But that brought a bigger problem back to light. We don’t really have a good understanding of what… Read More »
When I was a kid, there was a joke: “How many [politically in-correct Northern Germans] do you need to change a light bulb? – Five – One stands on the table and four turn the table to screw the bulb out and back in.” One Sunday I played “How many screws do you have to… Read More »
OK, so we have two kids and they are now grown somewhat and attending the Tracy Learning Center in eight’ and sixth grade. So every March for the last couple of years, there is the big regional Science Olympiad. This year, it was last Saturday, March the 6th. But the big competition is only the… Read More »
Hello, I decided to move my blog from blogs.sun.com to my own hosting setup. All the posts below are migrated. I looked at them and tried to fix all the images and links. But there might still be some dangling ends. But most of the stuff is rather old anyhow. I hope I’ll find some… Read More »