Using the console on Windows I tell you a secret: I’m a Windows user. I don’t use OSX, I don’t use Linux, I use Windows. And I tell you something more: I like it 😉 Usually I develop Java or JavaScript applications which perfectly run under Windows, Linux, OSX or what so ever. So developing under Windows is no problem […]
Gradle’s bootRun and Window’s command length limit Sometimes Gradle’s bootRun and Window’s command length limit are two opponents. If you use bootRun to start your Spring Boot app from Gradle all class path dependencies will be added to the start command. Gradle will run something like this in the end: 1 java -jar MyApp.jar -classpath xx.jar,yy.jar,zz.jar,... That’s fine and will work for a really long time. But […]
VirtualBox crashes with STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND As I’m a passionate Windows user (sorry…), I often use VirtualBox (with Vagrant) to pull up a Linux box to use Docker or some other “Linux-only” stuff. Usually, this works really fine, but today my VirtualBox crashed with a STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND error: One of those mystic error where everything worked like a charm yesterday at 6 […]
Mount Windows folder to Boot2Docker VM I just stumbled over a post on Stackoverflow (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30864466/whats-the-best-way-to-share-files-from-windows-to-boot2docker-vm) with the question how to mount a Windows folder to a Boot2Docker VM. Although the steps are a little bit confusing, in the end it is not difficult to do. Boot2Docker Boot2Docker is a simple VM to run Docker. The VM will run on VirtualBox and […]
A Windows SSO (for Java on client and server) A couple of months ago I worked on a single sign-on (SSO) for a Windows client and server made in Java. The scenario was the following: A client made with Java running on Windows A server made with Java running on Windows Both where logged-in to the same domain (an Active Directory LDAP) The question […]
Cloud vendors with Windows The cloud is build on Linux – that is my own humbling opinion. But is it really? To answer this question for myself, I took a look at a bunch of cloud vendors to see what they got under the hood. Here is what I found. But note that the list is neither complete nor […]
When your Acer Aspire 5560G doesn’t shutdown anymore Last year I bought an Acer Aspire 5560G as my second laptop (yes, sometimes two are better than one). A half year later, I was working pretty much with this laptop and decided to upgrade it with a SSD drive. So I bought a brand new Samsung SSD 840 PRO with 256 GB. I was […]
