http://erngui.com/blog Mostly programming, but also my other hobbies: science, fitness, languages, travel... Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:43:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Some months ago, I was reading an article on the barbell press (pdf) by Mark Rippetoe, where he says: Vasily Alexeyev, the “Big Russian” weightlifter from the 1970s and the strongest presser in history, was not merely a fat man. This made me google for Vasily Alexeyev and I came to this ... http://erngui.com/blog/2009/01/18/vasily-alexeyev-using-kettlebell/ OK, here's my plan to achieve my New Year's Resolution: Technical progression. I know how to slam dunk and seem to remember being able to do it  on a 285cm rim. I my recollection is correct, this means I need to increase my jump by 20cm. My progression will be: touch ... http://erngui.com/blog/2008/12/29/2009-slam-dunk-how-ill-do-it/ I used to play basketball a lot when I was around 18. Now I play about once a year. But I still work out. They say it's good to have a goal for your work-outs, so here's mine: I want to be able to slam dunk on a 120''/305cm basketball ... http://erngui.com/blog/2008/12/28/new-years-resolution/ Lately I’m using Active Directory a lot to access user accounts. From groovy or java you can access it using javax.naming.directory.InitialDirContext. A handy little tool is Sysinternal's Active Directory Explorer. http://erngui.com/blog/2008/11/19/active-directory-explorer/ Just trying to get my old website generation scripts (developed on Windows) to work on Leopard. Had to install the RedCloth gem. Couldn't use the latest version due to some missing support to compile the native version so used rubygems to install an older version (3.0.4) that's pure ruby. After ... http://erngui.com/blog/2008/11/17/ruby-on-leopard/ Another useful post by Tim Hawkins. Next time I'll have to try this one. http://erngui.com/blog/2008/11/02/grails-on-leopard/ This nice post by Tim Hawkins explains it all. http://erngui.com/blog/2008/10/25/installing-groovy-on-a-mac-with-leopard/ Oracle FAQ: Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) and JSQL or the (supposedly) improved version. I found that for local scripting the OCI driver is more reliable than the Thin one. In particular when used with replicated databases with load balancing. http://erngui.com/blog/2008/10/22/oracle-jdbc-faq/ You'll need this reference for the user-specific configuration of Maven and if you're looking into moving your local maven repository, you need this blog entry. http://erngui.com/blog/2008/10/20/maven-tips/ CodeProject Daily News - Oriented toward general computing news, but also goes into programming news, space exploration, computer games and anything else that might interest us computer geeks. They do the legwork for you reading loads of different computing magazines and sending you the most relevant links for the day. ... http://erngui.com/blog/2008/03/19/ten-free-blogsnewsletters-every-programmer-should-read/