hereticles

hereticles

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Hi, and welcome. I’ve been writing here since 2007 - a cross-section of my life and my interests. The most recent thread is kraya , a company I built and ran for 15 years.

There are also posts about triangle , a game I am building on zig .

You can also find poems and short stories if that’s what you’re into.

06 Nov 2011

PostgreSQL performing huge updates

571 words, ~2 min read

PostgreSQL is a pretty powerful database server and will work with almost any settings thrown at it. It is really good …

06 Nov 2011

Using CXF Interceptors to do some magic around your web service calls [1105]

315 words, ~1 min read

We use JBossWS CXF for a heavily utilised enterprise system. It links into spring to pick up and execute beans. We have …

05 Nov 2011

JBossWS CXF - POJO vs Stateless [1104]

400 words, ~1 min read

Cleaning up a bunch of code to reduce object instantiations got me thinking about the webservice layer. We are using …

03 Nov 2011

Gnome Desktop Inaccessible After Screensaver Kicks in [1103]

217 words, ~0 min read

Yesterday, I mentioned a problem that I've been having with GNOME 3 on Ubuntu 11.10.

Essentially what happens is that …

02 Nov 2011

Saving your workspace window configuration in Linux [1102]

626 words, ~2 min read

I am usually working on a good half a dozen things at any given time and this means that I usually have a good ten or …

02 Nov 2011

Tracking progress of an update statement

190 words, ~0 min read

Sometimes there is a need to execute a long running update statement. This update statement might be modifying millions …

13 Oct 2011

A Life Lived

354 words, ~1 min read

I remember a time,
Not that long ago,
To be driven by misery,
by sorrow and pain.

Walking a world covered in snow,
A …

14 Jul 2011

Boundless

81 words, ~0 min read

Swimming around gently,
for what seemed like an eternity,
in what was but a moment,
in her big brown eyes.

Time, with …

14 Jul 2011

Thoughts

103 words, ~0 min read

The thoughts that fill us daily
Are the stone, the rocks
The pavement, the roads.

These roads we pave,
Sometimes with …

14 Jul 2011

Words

129 words, ~0 min read

There was once a time,
when words flowed,
like a river, yearning for the sea.
simple words conveyed great meaning.

Words …