Monthly Archives: November 2008

Unblocking Intellij IDEA so it can launch Tomcat configurations

I love IDEA, a great Java IDE. So I was very grateful to Robert F. Beeger for posting a simple explanation for a frustrating problem I’ve had many times: IDEA will not launch Tomcat configurations, complaining that the address (e.g. http://localhost:8080) is in use, when it’s obviously not. The real culprit is Kaspersky Anti-Virus, which [...]

Where’d that geek go?

Just realized I haven’t written anything particularly techy lately. Well, here’s my backlog of study topics and the books I’m working through (more or less in parallel): RESTful Web Services Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3 and EBS) Django Canvas+Processing (JS version from Resig) Maven (yes, Maven) JavaScript (The Good Parts, by Crockford, quite excellent) Struts [...]