Thoughts on Star Wars and Jedi
So I saw Rogue One last week, and I found it to be quite interesting. It wasn’t my favorite movie, but it was a good lead in to A New Hope. Once I got back home, I had to look … Continue reading
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Jenkins in the Cloud
At work, we use Jenkins to automatically build our software. We use it to build both Java and C++ programs. Since it’s useful to have a continuous integration server setup to build and test software, I figured that I would document … Continue reading
SVN Commit Problems – Update
An update to my previous problem with checking into SVN. I had the same problem just now: I SSH’d into the server to try and figure out the problem. I then stumbled across this post on the SVN mailing list. … Continue reading
SVN Checkout By Date Problems
Have you ever had to checkout an SVN revision by the date and gotten an error like the following? (This is often the case with Jenkins, see this issue for some more details) Why Jenkins checks out revisions by date … Continue reading
Endianess in Computers
The other month, I was working on some code where I had to be concerned about the endianess of the data. I came across this article from IBM which greatly cleared up some things(I got to the article at least … Continue reading
Libraries and Dependencies
Have you ever used a library in a project, only to find that it depends on other libraries, only to depend on other libraries? I’m willing to bet that you have. Fortunately, there exist tools in the world to help … Continue reading
Debug Qt on remote device
Have you ever had to debug a Qt program running on a different computer? There are a few special things that you must do in Qt Creator in order to properly get all of the debug information out from the … Continue reading
Sequel Escalation
I’d like to take a moment to talk to you today about sequel escalation. In general, this is when the next movie in a series has an even worse bad guy than the previous one. (This is not limited to … Continue reading
About Script Kiddies
I don’t know anything about hacking. It’s true. I know the basic theory behind some of the attacks, but in-depth knowledge is beyond me. I went to school for almost five years to learn how to program, and I can’t … Continue reading
Setup Tomcat 8 on Debian 8 on port 80
Alright, that’s a confusing title. Anyway, the point of this is to show you how to setup Tomcat 8 on Debian 8 (Jessie), and to have it bind to port 80. This uses just the default packages from Debian, so … Continue reading