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• Fixing EhCache / Tomcat memory leak warnings.
  We were receiving messages such as this: The web application [/services] appears to have started a thread named [net.sf.ehcache.Cach...
• Adding a custom test phase to Grails 2.3
  Here's a snippit showing how to add a custom test phase and to exclude other phases, this code is pretty raw but should help you in figuring things out. The way that test phases are created has changed alot since grails 1.3 and the grails documentation ...
• ASUS P5K-E Wifi with ATI 5870 Triple Screen hackintosh
  Guide Version: 1 – 17/April/2011 Hardware Mobo: ASUS P5K-E Wifi/AP (Network: Marvel 88E8056 Gigabit, Vendor: 0×11ab, Device: 0×4364, SS Vendor: 0×1043, SS: 0×81f8) CPU: Intel E8200 OCZ 2×2GB RAM OCZ2P8002G (Slots ...
• 34 Pin IDC to 25 Pin Female D-Sub floppy drive pin mapping for Magic Super Griffin
  I cracked open my Magic Super Griffin today after finding an old external floppy drive (FDD) that I wanted to hook up to it. I was expecting to have to look at chip pinouts and signals to figure out which pins were which on the 25-pin connector but to my ...
• No-Fuss Tomcat 5.5 installation on OSX 10.5 (December 2009)
  After a bit of googling on the topic I couldn't find a decent guide of how to install Tomcat 5.5 on OSX. Here's how I did it. Download the apache-tomcat-5.5.28...
• Creating GMock expectations for methods that have a closure as a parameter
  If like me you want to test as much of your grails/groovy application as possible then at some point you'll need to create a unit test for a method that accepts a closure as an argument. GMock has the ability to use a 'match' closure to check to see if ...
• ATI and Dell 2709W displayport/eyefinity problems and solutions
  So, a while back I got a Power Color 4850 card with a displayport port and connected it up to my Dell 2709W monitor and it didn't work right. 'Stupid new technology' I thought. The symptoms of it's failure to work were: 1) no display during bootup 2) ...
• Displayport port
  Whoever thought of calling a new technology used to connect displays to devices 'displayport' needs to be given a dunce hat, be chained up somewhere in public so we that can all go and laugh at him and call him an idiot. Why? Well, I've got a 'dvi' ...
• Grails 1.1.1 URL mapping and reverse mapping example
  As there's not many examples of Grails 1.1.1 URL Mappings and examples of using them from within GSP files I thought I'd share this one with everyone.Read more...Tags : grails, groovy, mapping, reverse, url
• Hosting/Deploying Ruby On Rails apps on Windows
  So recently I've been getting on board the Ruby On Rails bandwagon. Well, not so much the Rails wagon but definately the Ruby wagon, anyway, I digress. If like me you've heard great things about Ruby on Rails and then tried it and ended up with some neat ...