Category Archives: Programming

Wicket, Tomcat, Debian: Sometimes a little security goes way too far

Was up until 3am last night banging my head against another frustrating go-nowhere issue deploying Wicket on Debian Etch’s default Tomcat5.5. Apparently the latest version (5.5.20-2etch1) has additional security headaches … Continue reading

End the Wicket PermGen issue

Update: This doesn’t seem to have completely fixed the problem, although perhaps I’m reloading the context to often for the garbage collector to keep up. I’ll keep you posted. Anyhoo, … Continue reading

Training Junk Mail filter using Apple Mail and GMail IMAP Connector

Like most people, I get literally thousands of spam messages a month. I never see them, of course, because they’re filtered out by Gmail’s incredible spam filtering system. This is … Continue reading

Jackrabbit, Wicket, Tomcat, Maven2… hell.

What follows is lessons learned migrating to the potentially magnificent Maven2 for dependency management. Put <scope>provided</scope> on Tomcat shared resources in your pom.xml If you deploy jars as a shared … Continue reading

Virtualising Magnolia CMS

In a sharp left-turn for the danwalmsley.com ouvre, what follows is instructions for virtualising Magnolia CMS. Magnolia is an open-source Content Management system available in both community and enterprise versions, … Continue reading