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This article gives a step by step set of instructions to set up Eclipse to run a Jetty application container using Jersey RESTful annotations and talk to a MySQL database. You would have thought that with all these technologies being really popular ther… 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 »

Ever come across the situation where you need to search for sets of values in a (MySQL) database? SQL along the lines of: SELECT col1, col2 FROM table1 WHERE (col3 = 5 and col4 = 6) or (col3 = 10 and col4 = 12) or (col3 = 15 and col4 = 3) more »

Creating a MySQL user that can only access a particular database instance, is a bit tricky to do from the MySql command line. Fortunately, the people at Plesk have added it into the appliance administration software. Previous incantations of the Plesk… more »

I am officially a SnowHead now. I went on my first Skiing trip with them to Xscape‎, in Milton Keynes which is an indoor real snow dome. SnowHeads is an internet club of skiers who meet up and go skiing together. SnowHeads organises events in th… more »