I am a big fan of music, and I like to listen to all my music wherever I am and whatever I do (specially when coding).

All my medias are stored on a NAS drive that features a little embedded linux distribution as operating system. One of the service is called iTunes media sharing (mt-daapd is the real name of the daemon).

It is really a cool feature as I can listen media stored on my NAS from whatever device on my LAN. The magic behind is called Bonjour which is a protocol that allows device to register themselves on the network and being discovered by others.

My problem is I want to be able to listen to my home music at work, and Bonjour service does not go out of my LAN. The additional thing is I want to listen to my music using iTunes (I am fond of Bowtie) on my MacBook Pro.

In Glassfish v2, you can easily set log levels using the admin console by going into Application Server > Logging > Log Levels. There you can add custom filter and change levels only by using the console.

In the new stable release of Glassfish, this option has disappeared, you can edit levels but there is no easy way to add custom filters. The trick is to alter manually the logging.properties file located in <yourdomain>/config directory. For example, if you want to filter out logs from Sun's Portlet Container, you have to set the following in the logging.properties file :

debug.com.sun.portlet.portletcontainer.impl.level=FINEST

Please notice the .level at the end of the fully qualified name of the class hierarchy to filter. After adding the new entry, you will be able to alter level via the admin console of Glassfish, or even simpler, simply edit the file : the changes are taken on the fly (in certain conditions, you might need to restart the server) !

Hope it'll help...

With our modern version control systems, we could assume we know for every single release we make the exact source code revision that corresponds. But, in the hurry of a bug found by your dear clients (or your product owner),  you can't find the corresponding tag in your VCS, it will make the whole patch process really difficult. You will have to find the exact revision, extract it and debug to patch (or backport an existing patch).

I will explain a little trick to make the find the revision thing a lot easier (I am assuming you're using maven to build your projects) : maven-buildnumber-plugin

Hey there, as some of you may know, I am a frequent reader (less frequent writer) on modaco's forum. Specially in the Acer Liquid's section (good device so far with an unbelieveable community). I found a thread talking about the lack of a task switching widget (http://bit.ly/cMYqDt) and so I did my best to do such a thing.

If you want to go straight to the download part, scan the following QRCode with your device, else go to the read more part.

Heya all,

I am trying to revive this blog from a long period of sleep. Let's start today with a little Java trick I made to have a working TinyMCE implementation using Wicket (tested over 1.4.9 and 1.4.13 in my case but I think it should work for any 1.4.x at least, please report successful attempts under other releases).

For newcomers, TinyMCE is a really powerful WYSIWYG editor written entirely in Javascript, it features plugin and theme ability in order to be THE editor to use in your projects. Apache Wicket is a really powerful web framework based on Java EE specs (I think I'll talk a lot about Wicket in here...).

An implementation of TinyMCE for Wicket exists, it'll be the first result you get when you ask your old pal G***** a hand. But, this implementation is a bit tricky to find (outdated links everywhere) and not feature complete (or not fully complete), as I explain in the read more part...