Commentary on useful and not-so-useful software, architecture, and interesting technical details
QueryForm: a Swing-based Java tool for editing database tables. For those times when you just don’t want to write a CRUD interface or use raw SQL. DbVisualizer’s “Update where” and “Insert into” functionality is OK for one or two rows, but this tool lets you edit many rows almost painlessly. powered by performancing firefox
DbVisualizer: essential tool. I practically live in it. I have it open all day every day. I use it for ad-hoc reporting, quick updates, and to build up, debug and validate the queries I put into my software. It will connect to anything that has a JDBC driver. One of the features I’ve used is … [Read more…]
My editor of choice, when not using an IDE like NetBeans:jEdit – Programmer’s Text Editor
Here’s a tool I really like, for editing XML files, especially ones that have useful “human readable” representations, like XHTML: XMLmind XML Editor
The group I’m in here at a major telecommunications provider has a nice little setup of HP’s OpenView and Remedy’s Action Request System. OpenView listens for and seeks out problems with various internal and customer-owned systems. When something serious occurs, it uses some 3rd party integration software (RemedySPI) to create a trouble ticket in Remedy. … [Read more…]
Sometimes a vendor supplies a command-line utility for performing some function that we want to use from within our scripts and programs.
There are some unwritten (at least as far as I can find) rules about how to write one of these utilities so it can be used properly.
Some vendors get this right. Others, not so much…
Who needs GMail? You’ve got your own CPU and Disk space, use it.
ZOE lets you read and search your email…
Let’s say you wanted to run two completely separate instances of Apache’s web server. (I.e. not just multiple virtual hosts listening on different ports, but actual separate httpd processes.) All you’d have to do is create a new httpd.conf (in a separate directory, or with a different name in the same directory as the current … [Read more…]