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I just spent a large portion of the morning attempting to get openAM working in my environment only to be blocked at every pass due to a Null Pointer Exception. Aparently the issue stems from OpenSSOLogger. So some guy. On a forum. Had the same issue and fixed it for me. https://bugster.forgerock.org/jira/browse/OPENAM-587 YAY!  Read More →

Anyone who has used the jQueryUI Theme Roller Bookmarklet in the past was in for a hell of a surprise when they upgraded to the latest version of firefox. Seems there is a browser check in the bookmarklet code that prevented our favorite little tool from starting. But have no fear motor babies! Yours truely here has the solution to all your theming woes! The first step to getting this bad boy up and running again is to simply host the damn thing yourself. If you got you a website that you can access,... more

I don’t know why, but I find myself having to do this a lot. I checkout some code from SVN but the developer who set up the repository doesn’t use eclipse. He’s smart and just deploys his code to a general Tomcat instance and doesn’t have to worry about all that extra IDE hoopla. I’m dumb. I have problems setting up my Tomcat servers and so I let Eclipse handle deployments and things for me. Plus I can’t code Java for shit and when I need to I rely very heavily... more

When attempting to add a new tomcat server in Eclipse after having previously deleted it from the workspace, I am presented with the following error: Unable to select a server of the specific type. The solution is as follows: In order to solve the problem you need to close eclipse go to ~/workspace/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.runtime/.settings remove the files org.eclipse.wst.server.core.prefs and org.eclipse.jst.server.tomcat.core.prefs solve the problem with the permissions of the policy... more

Below is a link to a little coding challenge presented to me by a recruiter. These are always fun to do as they force me outside of my Backbase bubble.  Read More →

This was a fun one to identify… I have a use case where I need to add an “un-managed” gadget to my portal instance. For those of you not in “the know” an un-managed gadget is one that exists within the confines of you pages “script tag”, but outside of the portal itself. It will still only appear when the associated tab is selected, however the placement of the gadget is not confined to it’s respective container. The little bug here is that the gadget... more

Last week I almost lost my laptop. Well, the physical laptop was at all times safe, however I crashed my hard drive to the point where it was unable to boot to the OS. Truth be told the fault for this was entirely my own. The endeavor began with my quest to upgrade the installed memory on the system from the factory provided 4 Gigs, to a much more beefy 8 Gigs. This upgrade was necessitated through my need to run not one, but various virtual machines at the same time. During the installation of said... more

Portal is a fun beast. I mean for all it’s awesomeness, there are still a few seemingly simple tasks that can prove a tad….”interesting” to accomplish. This morning I was greeted to an email request from a client asking how one would go about applying a custom icon to the “chrome” of a portal gadget. As it stands, our gadgets are equipped with several interactive icons for controlling it’s state (minimize, maximize, refresh, close, edit preferences, and... more

OK everyone, I am now adding stuff to the blog that extends outside of the boring technical snoozefest you’re used to. Something close to my heart, music!  There’s nothing better than coming across a new tune, looking up the artists history, and finding a world of new stuff to listen to. This week I’m introducing 6 songs that have acquired heavy rotation in iTunes. Mr. Hudson & The Library OK I don’t know much about these guys. I came across Mr. Hudson while listening... more

Issue: Getting Tomcat 6 to run on JRE 1.6 Solution: Google-ing this issue brings up a whole host of tedious and complex threads that go in depth about why this doesn’t usually work. Me, I don’t really care WHY it doesn’t work, but rather how I can get my machine to make it work. The solution is to locate the file: msvcr71.dll some posts have this file labeled as msvcr711.dll whatever, either should be fine. This file is located in you java 1.6 installation. C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin or... more