This post would look into how to tackle and debug issues in scenarios where they only occur in production (or other remote environment) but not in development environment. As anybody who has been in this kind of situation would acknowledge, trying to pinpoint the cause of these kind of “issues” might quickly end up being […]
Running Hippo CMS from Intellij
For a number of years we are doing hippo development using our beloved tool “Intellij”. We can import the project using the pom. Deploying from within Intellij was done using the maven provided jetty integration to run the cms. Then we would run the site in another tomcat or as well from maven with jetty. […]
Make Intellij IDEA behave properly in linux docks
One of my pet peeves when working on Linux has always been that java applications do not work well with popular docks like Docky and Cairo dock. When you add a Java application as a launcher to the dock and use it to launch the application it will still create another icon in the dock, […]
Encoding problems with properties files and IntelliJ
The Java platform has fantastic support for many character encodings. So it is a bit odd when you find out that regular properties files, read through the Properties class only supports the ISO-8859-1 encoding. Contrast this with the increasing custom to use UTF-8 as default encoding for all files in a project (as configured through […]
Using ehcache monitor
In my previous blog post serving a heavy load rss feed with spring 3 and ehcache I showed a solution for rss and caching using ehcache. After posting, Alex Miller commented about using a new product from ehcache called ehcache monitor. As curious as I am I decided to have a look. In this blog […]