Bill Schneider, Software Architect

Connecting MicroStrategy 8.x Web SDK to a MicroStrategy 9.x Intelligence Server (iServer) doesn't work.  That in itself isn't a sur...

Sleep mode was grayed out on new Dell laptop (Latitude E6420) on Windows 7. The fix was to disable the legacy VGA driver, which came up wi...

I was getting mysterious, intermittent proxy errors using Apache mod_proxy to talk to an older version of Glassfish (2.x). It turned out th...

I've had success using JSF 2.0 with JPA on Glassfish 3.0.1, without using Spring or EJB for managing middle-tier services or DAOs. (I a...

Another unhelpful WebSphere error, this time with an assist from Oracle. This happened to me when I configured my JDBC data source with t...

Got this error when trying to upgrade from WebSphere Portal 6.0 to 7.0. com.ibm.portal.puma.SchemaViolationException: EJPSG0053E: Puma req...

Chrome and Firefox both return an offset from 1900 for date.getYear() instead of a four-digit year (pre-Y2K, a two-digit year). So new Date...

I just noticed that some browsers, like IE9 and Chrome, don't preserve insertion order of keys when iterating with a for-in loop ["...

I recently learned about commons-logging's classloader behavior the hard way when moving applications that use log4j from Tomcat to WebL...

I've begun to question the wisdom of standards for websites that require support for older browsers like Netscape 4. Backwards compatibi...

I must have bad luck with my home wireless network. I had a D-Link DI-514 wireless router, which worked great until I got a new IBM Thinkp...

displaytag is an easy-to-use JSP tag library for printing out HTML data tables with sorting and paging. But, there's a catch. In an ente...

I've had to set up a USB stick with Linux recently. It's fairly easy if you know the right magic. Here are some links to useful ...

One of Hibernate's most under-appreciated features is its ability to persist private fields. This feature is useful for avoiding what M...

Someone at work was running a big delete (100k rows) and it was taking forever, as if it were hung. We couldn't figure out what was goi...

I was getting this "Bad system call" message from PostgreSQL 7.4.x on cygwin. It was working earlier, and I thought I had done ev...

Today I was looking into the performance of a PostgreSQL query with a "... where exists (select 1 from ...)" subquery: select foo...

Scenario: Your team developed a custom application for Client A. The application is generally useful, so it gets re-sold to Client B. ...