Here Be BeastiesAlastair Maw’s small soap box.

Spam is getting worse, so I’m trying out DSPAM. I’ve added it into my vexim set-up and although it’s early days, things are looking promising. I run various accounts with IMAP/POP3. For the POP3 users, there are training aliases to forward incorrectly-classified mail to. For IMAP users, it would be much more convenient to have [...]

I’ve found a mightily useful page explaining the world of Sun JVM options. Absolutely invaluable if you’re trying to squeeze everything out of your poor overloaded appserver.

The upcoming Wicket 1.3 and 2.0 versions intercept their requests using a servlet filter to provide more flexible resource mapping and nicer URLs. Your Wicket pages no longer need to live at foo.com/app/PageName and can instead be rooted properly at foo.com/PageName. This is now working well. I did, however, come up against a small issue, [...]

Java has lately been seriously annoying me in this regard. Why do I have to write getters/setters for beans? Why can’t we just have a property keyword instead that does it automatically? Why does everyone insist on using getters/setters in the first place rather than public fields anyway? What’s the point? Ah, yes, we need [...]

I fixed a Wicket bug today for compressing whitespace in HTML. The wrinkle is that you need to avoid doing that inside <pre> tags, otherwise your code formatting goes all wrong. You should probably just gzip your responses instead, as it’ll be much more efficient than this, but apparently, someone cares enough to raise a [...]