Monthly Archives: August 2009
Wicket in action and confusion
For a recent project lead, we decided to create a mock-up of the application, so the prospective Customer would be able to see that we understand their needs. As I’m not very good at interactive HTML mock-ups I decided to … Read more
Creating for a bot for MafiaWars
I started playing MafiaWars on my last job, where I had time to spare. As it has happened in the past with me playing on a mud, when the game got repetitive I start writing tools to speed things up.When … Read more
Starting VirtualBox on boot
After setting up VirtalBox based virtualization on our server, I needed a way to have it automatically started and stopped whenever the host is restarted. Also it would be for the better if the system was not simply started and … Read more
Starting DB2 instances on boot
After migrating our hosted application to a virtual server I realized, that as usual the system is a “maintenance free” Linux, meaning we set it up as it were and left it running for ages without touching it. On the … Read more
Migrating from physical to virtual server with pain and tears
We host the server for a legacy application in our office. Since it’s more like a favor than a real assignment we don’t care much about the server. However we had a few network issues lately, so we decided to … Read more