Archive for the 'About' Category

Skipping maven tests

This is just a short message for all you out there that want to suppress testing with maven. Heres how to do it:

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$ mvn package -Dmaven.test.skip=true

Have fun with your additionally won spare time ;).

Take care of your images

You might have heard of the double post issue, which causes form data to be sent a second time to the server. This can be resolved by a HTTP redirect after the post has been processed. Today another problem occured to me, one that reminded me of that issue. Continue reading ‘Take care of your images’

Configuring JBoss with SSL

Sometimes you need a self signed certificate to use SSL with your JBoss installation. This is a small how-to that tells you the essential steps to do that. Continue reading ‘Configuring JBoss with SSL’

Evaluation with untyped languages

When using JavaScript or PHP you need to keep in mind that these aren’t typed languages. Typed languages give us a lot of restrictions whilest keeping us from doing stupid things. Untyped languages do not have those restrictions so they leave us with a lot of freedom. Do we need this kind of freedom? Continue reading ‘Evaluation with untyped languages’

Using mencoder to encode movies

This article wants to cover some basic and advanced encoding using mencoder as the encoding engine. Basically all media MPlayer can read is suitable for this howto. Continue reading ‘Using mencoder to encode movies’