MacAdie Web Blog

The machine I was using for my firewall died last week. So I went to Best Buy and got a small wireless router and I am now using that for my firewall. I ran ShieldsUP! on all my systems, and so far everything seems to be running as expected. I paid only $70 for this [...]

I started a new job yesterday. So I may not be posting too much new stuff lately. However, I may post some old stuff. My desktop came back from Best Buy. They had to replace the motherboard, and I had to re-install Ubuntu. So I lost all of my files. (I have been making DVDs [...]

In addition to knowing Java, I have decided to start learning other languages. There are a bunch out there, so I decided to stick to languages that run on the JVM. In particular, I will stick to languages that are indigenous to the JVM, like Groovy or Scala, as opposed to languages that have been [...]

For a while I had four systems. One laptop (which is about four years old) and three desktops. I was using one desktop as my main system, and one as a firewall. A week ago, the main desktop stopped working. Sometimes it would boot up and work for about ten minutes and then stop working, [...]

The James Admin Web App is currently on hiatus. I updated the files, but someone tried it and I did not upload the jsp files.  I must have done something wrong in git on my machine. Plus my hard drive is having issues. Based on Google searches of the error messages, I think I just [...]

I made a few changes and cleaned up the James Admin Web App. I also added a few pages on the wiki explaining a bit on how to configure it and use it. I will post an announcement soon the James mailing list. Perhaps I will get some more response. I posted that I planned [...]

I got a couple of responses on the James developer list about my James Admin Web App. One person suggested I change it to work with Maven. I will take some time to do that.

I posted an announcement about the James Admin Web App to the James developer list: I started a project on GitHub that is a web project that people can use to perform some administrative tasks on a James mail server. The URL is http://github.com/emacadie/James-Admin-Web-App It works with the James 2.3 schema. It does not work [...]

We had a Chicago Java Users Group meeting on April 20th. Our speaker was Damodar Chetty, a consultant from Minneapolis. He talked about Tomcat configuration. There was a bit of a problem: We did not have a projector. Every room we have reserved at Loyola has had a projector, so I assumed we would have [...]

I presented last night at Chicago Java Users Group. I went to a big Oracle seminar and talked about the latest news about the Oracle/Sun merger. We also had a presentation by Bjorn Freeman-Benson of New Relic. I have started learning some new technologies. I am still a Java guy, but I am looking into [...]