I had just had a bit of an "oh shit" moment! So thought I'd blog how I got out of it. Parallels is the company that produces Plesk. On the whole it's a pretty good bit of server software which helps to manage a single machine that supports many virtu… more »

CentOS 5.5 is dependant on Python 2.4. Everything will break if you change it, so we must install a newer version of Python in a different place. Surprisingly my 1&1 CentOS didn't come with gcc installed so I had to install it myself. yum -y i… more »

I have just spent the last 2 days looking for why my Spring container (under Tomcat) was getting ClassNotFoundException and NoClassDefFoundError during start up. There is so much mis-leading stuff in the Internet. I had 2 projects in Eclipse: the cor… more »

Working in I.T. means that I have several email addresses or more specifically I receive email sent to me on several email addresses. When Acme Corporation asks me to build their network I create the email address acme@mydomain.com for them to use. E… more »

I've kind of got used to Ed Wilson's chaotic style of presenting. He must be clever to achieve such a position inside Microsoft, but each of his presentations looks and feels as though he has done no preparation what so ever. It really comes over as off the cuff with all the problems associated with that. Here we are in part 4; in real time this is the fourth consecutive day he has presented and again it really feels like he hasn't bothered with his practice run. more »