Jakub Korab

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  • Blogger compatible permalinks in WordPress

    A couple of folks have asked me how I got my old Blogger permalinks to work on the new blog. It’s super simple. Under Options -> Permalinks in the admin console, add the following custom structure “/%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%.html”. You can then set up the little Blogger redirect/DNS cheat method I described in the last post and […]

  • This blog is moving!

    New Year, New Home! This blog is now moving onto a new domain – www.jakubkorab.net If you RSS me, please update your feed to point to here. See you on the other side!

  • Why does a PC have to take 2 minutes to start up?

    Technology review published an article on a technology that will get new PC’s booting to a useable state in a few seconds as opposed to the couple of minutes that it currently takes – albeit with an operating system parallel to Windows. http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/20072/?a=f This has been a real pain for me, as I am in […]

  • Sequence diagram voodoo?

    Every once in a while I forget how to do something in UML. InformIT have a great guide on the use of the notation just for this purpose. Nice. http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=360441&seqNum=5&rl=1

  • Dublin Java Pub Quiz Today

    If you are in Dublin and trying to work out what to do with yourself on a cold winter evening, why not come down to the pub for a few beers and a bit of friendly competition? http://www.dubjug.org/events/jug/2008/quiz

  • Sometimes it is easy to forget

    I have been meaning to post lately on everything from an insight that I had into systems architecture when looking at the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, to why JRuby is barking up the wrong tree. But I have been otherwise occupied 🙁 So here’s what I term a Moment: Stay tuned.

  • Unit testing with JAXB

    I hit a snag when unit testing some code that makes use of JAXB generated objects. JAXB does not generate setters for collections 😛 This means that you cannot do the following: Parent parent = new Parent(); List<Child> children = new ArrayList<Child>(); children.add(new Child()); parent.setChildren(children); // there’s no setter method! Instead, the following will do […]

  • Message Driven POJOs in Spring

    Andy Piper wrote an excellent blog post(http://dev2dev.bea.com/blog/andypiper/archive/2006/07/spring_20_and_m_1.html) about using Spring for the equivalent of EJB Message DrivenBeans. Worth checking out if you're looking at dropping EJB from yourSpring app entirely.

  • When work goes live

    It’s great to see when your work finally gets up and running and people start using it. I’ve been doing some work on http://www.milkround.ie, a graduate recruitment website, for a little while now and the first draft version went up and had the kinks ironed out before Christmas. Now back from holidays, it’s good to […]

  • Virus scanning file uploads

    Out of a strange twist of fate, I have found myself working on two separate pieces of work that share virus scanning of uploaded files within a web application as a requirement. The gist of the use case is: – the user uploads a file– the system scans it– if a virus is detected, the […]