JBoss Client Jars for Messaging
- 04Nov2010

Prior to JBoss 5, the jboss-all-client.jar was pretty much all you needed. However, the JBoss 5 Getting Started Guide states the following: The client/jbossall-client.jar library that used to bundle the majority of jboss client libraries, is now referencing them instead through the Class-Path manifest entry. This allows swapping included libraries (e.g. jboss-javaee.jar) without having to [...]

rsh hates nohup
- 04Aug2010

rsh has issues with nohup. Yes, I know rsh is evil. It wasn’t my decision.

Torquebox and Cygwin: Take I
- 09Jun2010

Torquebox and Cygwin don’t work as nicely together as one might hope. That said, here are a couple of findings: In order to deploy, you need to set the $JBOSS_HOME with the Windows path.  You can do this via export JBOSS_PATH=`cygpath -w PATH_TO_JBOSS`. Additionally, the JRUBY_HOME needs to be a windows path as well.   Otherwise [...]

Rails & JRuby in a Jar
- 02Mar2010

This is a discussion of what I needed to do to put rails and JRuby together in a single jar.

Fractal Terrain Generation
- 01Sep2009

I’ve been working on a wargaming library/framework off and on for over a year; along the way I’ve encountered a number of interesting problems to solve. This blog entry details one of them, fractal terrain generation.

Quick thought on programming and distractions
- 31Aug2009

“The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.” – Buddha Too often it’s easy to spend hours days weeks far too long reading blogs and wilfing doing research.  Looking for that perfect tool.  Looking for a wonderful library.  Looking for a new technique.  Looking, looking, looking.  Almost like Hans Guck-in-die-Luft, [...]