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Continue reading →: Importing a public SSL certificate into a JVM
You are trying to connect your pretty application to an external HTTPS endpoint and getting an odd out of blue exception like below: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target That’s happening because, when connecting via HTTPS, the public SSL certificate from the…
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Continue reading →: SQL Server script to replicate all data from a remote database to a local database
This file contains hidden or bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters. Learn more about bidirectional Unicode characters Show hidden characters /* Replicates all data from the remote database to…
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Continue reading →: Redirect Tomcat console messages to file
Despite the fact that offical Tomcat’s Wiki says: System.out and System.err are both redirected to CATALINA_BASE/logs/catalina.out when using Tomcat’s startup scripts (bin/startup.sh/.bat or bin/catalina.sh/.bat). Any code that writes to System.out or System.err will end up writing to that file. (link) For some reason that scape from my understanding, this is…
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Continue reading →: Irrationality at the service of rationality in decision-makingThe shared decision, or group decision, is one of the fundamental stones of modern western civilization, democracy itself is based on this concept. But how far do groups make the best decision? How much of the expected goal – as a group decision – is obtained from a project approval…
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Continue reading →: Coding SVN hook in JavaIn the How IT of today we create a SVN pre-commit’ hook coded in Java language 🙂 Why we need this From small teams to really big teams counting more than 100 heads, the source control is almost mandatory. Apache Subversion (SVN) is one of most popular solution for software…
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