Archive for March, 2008

The case of the failing ant copy filterset

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

I wanted to set a couple of Windows environment variables from Ant. The environment key-value pairs are stored on the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment key in the registry. As a starting point I used the registry editor to export all keys. I called the file environment.reg.template and modified it to look ...

Making a demo login with restful_authentication

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

In order for someone to give The Project (Min Packning) a try it was required to register an account and provide a valid e-mail address. This is an obstacle, so I wanted to add a way for people to try the service without registering. It was actually very easy. I ...

ThoughtWorks Anthology revealed

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

I previously wrote about my curiosity about The ThoughtWorks Anthology. The book now have it's own web page: ThoughtWorks Anthology.

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Saturday, March 1st, 2008

My web server examines the the referer to deny deep linking to images on my sites, so I get log messages about that. When I browsed the logs today a few of those log lines caught my eye. They looked like this: client denied by server configuration: /directory/image, referer: junomsg://028985E8/ (I replaced ...