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Load Balancing Tomcat on Leopard with mod_jk

May 28, 2008 – 2:24 pm

I’ve just had to setup a test system that load balances a site running on Tomcat across multiple computers. My test bed is 3 mac minis, one working as the ‘head’ running Apache, and the other two in the ‘farm’ handling the load. It was a less than painless exercise, so I thought I’d write [...]

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Release Day

April 30, 2008 – 6:13 pm

I can finally share what I’ve been working on since I joined SpringSource. I won’t try to explain it in detail, because half of you will glaze over immediately, but basically it’s an application platform that allows convenient deployment of OSGi Java apps using Spring software. See, I told you. For those of you who’ve [...]

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1 Wikipedia, 2 Wikipedias…

April 28, 2008 – 8:48 am

I’ve seen this linked a few times, and finally got time to read it. What an awesome article – there’s nothing in there that I couldn’t have thought up, but I didn’t and this guy did: I was having dinner with a group of friends about a month ago, and one of them was talking [...]

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Google Calendar

April 25, 2008 – 8:36 pm

This might be well-known, but it was new to me when I stumbled on it. If you click on a date in the calendar on the left of the page and drag to the left or right the main display adjusts to show the number of days you’ve highlighted. Similarly moving up or down shows [...]

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Evernote

April 8, 2008 – 9:10 pm

I’ve been using a newish (at least for the latest beta) note taking and crap collecting app called Evernote recently. Among its cool features are a decent Mac client (or a Windows one if you must), syncing to an online client, OCR for pictures you insert, various mobile clients, and publishing of any items you [...]

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