words on sand

from shri at drone-ah.com

25 Mar 2013

Pulling At My Heart Strings

1,109 words, ~4 min read

This the story of a Wood Elf, he woke up in a cart, his memories fuzzy and faded, little knowledge of who he was and …

24 Feb 2013

Getting Started: Emacs & C++ (w/ cmake) (On the fly syntax highlighting)

613 words, ~2 min read

I am a recent convert to emacs. My vast majority of development is in Java EE and I have not found an easy way to get …

31 Jan 2013

WARN - Missing artifact descriptor for XXX

246 words, ~0 min read

Working on an Arquillian test deployment which had some library changes recently, I ran into the following error.

WARN - …
14 Jan 2013

The Death Of a Follower

1,266 words, ~5 min read

Back in 2011, starting from the 11th November, i.e. 11.11.11, I had booked a weeks holiday. I planned to travel a brand …

17 Oct 2012

Getting started on seam-security, picketlink IDM and JPAIdentityStore

443 words, ~1 min read

I love how JBoss 7(.1) has everything working out of the box - not much fiddling with jars or suchlike and with …

12 Jun 2012

Slow it Down

106 words, ~0 min read

So much of my life was spent running,
away from or to something, I did not know.

Outside of life itself was existence, …

20 Apr 2012

Hold on tight

246 words, ~0 min read

Hold on tight,
To everything,
Just hold on tight,
for you don't know when,
when it might all go,
when it might all …

21 Mar 2012

Restricting Linux Logins to Specified Group

122 words, ~0 min read

If you have linux boxes that authenticate over ldap but want logins for specific boxes to be restricted to a particular …

11 Mar 2012

Li(f)e

849 words, ~3 min read

Tis true. Life is a lie. Some people call it maya (yeah - us - as in Indians) and it is ever so true but it is not …

12 Jan 2012

Mercy

1,344 words, ~5 min read

It had been a very long night and we had been travelling for a while. It was a long and arduous journey. We were all …