Mr N

During Spring development I got this exception, but there was almost no reference to what caused it. So after a lot of searching I found out the cause and thought I'd blog it for others struggling with the same problem. more »

This article talks about how you can use Visual Studio and Clearcase in combination in order to provide more effective team integration and operation. Visual Studio has 2 important features that facilitate this: The ability to split the configur… 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 »

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 »

Sorting, grouping, and formatting output There is no difference between running PowerShell commands on the command line or running them in a script, so it's more like a Unix shell. PowerShell cmdlets have a 2 part name: a verb followed by a noun. For… more »