Archive for February, 2010

Terminal Heroes 8: Memory usage scripts

Posted by Ktoso under coding, terminal heroes (No Respond)

I have a low-memory VPS running online and thus always have to worry about what uses how much memory… Of course top and my favorite htop are very good tools to check this, but sometimes I just want to get a super simple report if I’m overusing memory or not yet. The bellow scripts (most [...]

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Interesting talk with Sun Microsystems’ Director of Web Technologies Tim Bray

Posted by Ktoso under coding (No Respond)

I just stumbbled uppon an very interesting talk with Sun Microsystems’ Director of Web Technologies Tim Bra, abour the future of the Java Platform. They also mention stuff about REST/SOAP, SOA, Grails/Grails/Django etc. Is’s interesting to see how “bigshots” view these technologies. Tkat said, if you have 30min to spare, or just want to play [...]

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Kill only Tomcat

Posted by Ktoso under coding, java (No Respond)

There is sometimes the need to kill some JVM, I usually use “killall java” and that works fine as long as that’s in fact what I want – kill ALL. But let’s say i just want to kill Tomcat and not my IDE? The below method works quite well in such an situation: [ktoso@homunculus ~]$ [...]

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JavaCamp #2

Posted by Ktoso under coding, java (2 Responds)

Yup, it’s time for another JavaCamp “review”. This time I was able to attend the whole thing, and didn’t miss the pizza – well, I just got one slice since we were so busy talking about Google’s Android with other programmers… ;-) The agenda was shorter than last time, but it still “had it’s moments”: [...]

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MySQLIntegra: dbfiller & wiki

Posted by Ktoso under coding, null (No Respond)

I passed all my exams at my first attempt and should have now some time to relax, right? Well something like that, I’m actually doing quite a lot these days. We’re on the roll with MySQL Integra. Our server “Kopiec” is somewhat online (running CentOS off course) – we’re able to start/stop if thanks to [...]

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