James Marshall

Open BlueDragon, JBoss and Eclipse timeout problem (solved!)

I've spent the past couple of evenings setting up a development environment using OpenBD, JBoss and Eclipse following the instructions by Adam Haskell found here. All went well until I tried to start the JBoss app server from within Eclipse. ... Read more

Best book for learning Java?

I've been meaning to learn Java for a while now (actually more like 10 years), but never got past the first chapter of any book I picked up. It's not helped by the fact that Java has so many different ... Read more

Still alive (and kicking)

Apologies for the long hiatus between posts - I've been pretty busy with a couple of projects, but I'm now back with a vengeance (look out for several posts over the next couple of weeks).

Save our ColdFusion installations!

Okay, I'll keep this brief: Our in-house websites run on CFMX 6.1 and were built using Fusebox 4. Our backoffice system is a COBOL legacy application, and over the years the system has grown cumbersome. We have performance issues that ... Read more