Date
| Document |
Change Type |
Category |
Notes |
27-08-2010
| |
New |
SAN |
NetApp architecture discussing Hardware, software, SAN terminology, NetApp terminology |
27-08-2010
| |
New |
SAN |
Short Introduction to NetApp |
22-07-2010
| |
New |
Unix |
AIX Logical Volume Manager cheat sheet |
21-07-2010
| |
update |
Unix |
Obtained a IBM 9114-275 so updated my Unix cheat sheet guide with common AIX commands |
15-07-2010
| |
New |
Unix |
Working on some DL380 servers needed to know how to re-enable failed disks, etc |
05-07-2010
| |
update |
Unix |
Added Debian to my Unix command cheat sheet guide |
13-04-2010
| |
New |
MaxDB |
diagnostic files locations, X_CONS and Xinstinfo |
13-04-2010
| |
New |
MaxDB |
Indexes, optimizer, caches and analysis tools (database analyzer, resource and command monitor, EXPLAIN statement) |
10-04-2010
| |
New |
MaxDB |
Installation, Configuration, Backups, Recovery, snapshots and consistency checks |
24-03-2010
| |
New |
MaxDB |
Short section on the interaction between SAP and MaxDB |
23-03-2010
| |
New |
Oracle |
A quick and dirty Oracle RAC cheat sheet |
23-03-2010
| |
New |
Oracle |
Adding and removing nodes from a RAC cluster |
20-03-2010
| |
New |
Oracle |
Performance issues, node eviction, debugging CRS and GRD, general troubleshooting |
18-03-2010
| |
New |
Oracle |
Introduction, Ping, Past Images (PIs), Cache Fusion I and II, cache fusion in operation |
17-03-2010
| |
New |
Oracle |
cache coherency, resources and enqueues, GES, Global locks, Messaging and GCS |
10-03-2010
| |
New |
Oracle |
Workload partitioning, wait events, enqueues, AWR and cluster interconnect are all discussed |
04-03-2010
| |
New |
Oracle |
Details on backup basics, instance recovery, crash recovery and cache fusion |
26-02-2010
| |
New |
Oracle |
Basic administration of Instances, nodes, CRS, OCR, services |
18-02-2010
| |
New |
Oracle |
RAC Installation using ISCSI and Oracle Enterprise Linux |
18-02-2010
| |
New |
Oracle |
RAC architecture, introduction, components, clusterware, kernel components and procceses |
12-02-2010
| |
New |
Solaris |
A quick and dirty cheat sheet on Solaris ZFS |
11-02-2010
| |
New |
Oracle |
This is a introduction about HA, Clustering and the original RAC - Oracle Parallel Server |
09-02-2010
| |
update |
Unix |
I have create a simple LVM cheat sheet to compliment my other LVM task sheet |
06-02-2010
| |
New |
MaxDB |
I cover a lot of material here, architecture, livecache, parameters, users, dba tools |
06-02-2010
| |
New |
MaxDB |
An introduction to the SAP MaxDB database |
21-01-2010
| |
Updated |
Cluster |
I have combined the 3.1 and 3.2 version common tasks into one document |
20-01-2010
| |
Updated |
Cluster |
I have updated my existing Sun Cluster cheat sheet to contain both versions 3.1 and 3.2 |
10-01-2010
| |
New |
Cluster |
How to setup a Sun Cluster 3.2 on a laptop using VMWare |
10-01-2010
| |
New |
Cluster |
Introduction to Sun Cluster 3.2 |
10-09-2009
| |
New |
EJB 3 |
Identification, SOAP message, WSDL, JAX-WS |
08-09-2009
| |
New |
EJB 3 |
I discuss a number of topics relating to migrating EJB 2 to EJB 3 |
02-09-2009
| |
New |
EJB 3 |
Entity Locking, JDBC layer, Database operations, Querying, Caching, Component performance, Clustering |
22-08-2009
| |
New |
EJB 3 |
Design Patterns (Presentation, Persistence and Application), Session beans and helper classes |
14-08-2009
| |
New |
EJB 3 |
Application Packaging, Class Loading, Deployment descriptors v Annotations |
12-08-2009
| |
New |
EJB 3 |
Query API, JPQL, Native SQL queries |
05-08-2009
| |
New |
EJB 3 |
EntityManager introduction, entity lifecycle, entitymanager instances, managing persistence operations, lifecycle listeners, best practices |
24-07-2009
| |
New |
EJB 3 |
Impedance mismatch, Mapping objects, mapping entities, secondary tables, primary keys, mapping entities relationships, mapping inheritance |
17-07-2009
| |
New |
EJB 3 |
Domain Models, Entity Relationships, Entity Annotations |
09-07-2009
| |
New |
EJB 3 |
EJB Transactions, Container-Managed and Bean-Managed Transactions, EJB Security |
02-07-2009
| |
New |
EJB 3 |
EJB Internals, Dependency Injection and JNDI, Interceptors, Timer Services |
24-06-2009
| |
New |
EJB 3 |
Messaging concepts, JMS, MDB annotations, lifecycle and best practices |
18-06-2009
| |
New |
EJB 3 |
Session bean anatomy, lifecycles, stateless, stateful, differences between stateless and stateful, performance impact |
11-06-2009
| |
New |
EJB 3 |
Basic introduction into EJB 3 with code examples of the three types of beans: Session, MDB and Entity |
06-06-2009
| |
New |
JSP |
Basic Patterns and an introduction to Struts 1 |
05-06-2009
| |
New |
EJB 3 |
EJB Overview, EJB Types, Inside EJBs, Unit Testing |
05-06-2009
| |
New |
EJB 3 |
Discuss EJB (Session, MDBs and Entities), Persistence, Transactions, Security, etc |
24-05-2009
| |
New |
JSP |
Filters, Request Filters, Response filters/wrappers |
23-05-2009
| |
New |
JSP |
Authentication, Authorization, Data Confidentiality and Integrity |
22-05-2009
| |
New |
JSP |
Deployment, WAR files, Welcome and Error pages, Mime Mapping |
20-05-2009
| |
New |
JBoss |
Running Multiple Instances, Unwanted Services, JSP Compilation |
19-05-2009
| |
New |
JBoss |
Hardware, JVM and JBoss tuning |
17-05-2009
| |
New |
JSP |
Tag Files, Simple Tags, Classic Tags, Body Tags, Tag working together, Simple and Classic Key Differences |
15-05-2009
| |
New |
JSP |
Discuss the JSP Standard Tag Library, (if, forEach, choose, remove, set, import, url, catch, etc), customer tags library |
13-05-2009
| |
New |
JBoss |
HTTP load balancing, HTTP session replication, cluster session EJBs, clustering entities, clustering JNDI |
12-05-2009
| |
New |
JBoss |
Clustering technology, load balancing, setting up a cluster, JBoss cluster architecture and JBoss cache. |
07-05-2009
| |
New |
JBoss |
Developing Web Services, Bottom-up/Top-down approaches, JBoss Annotations, Securing Web Services, Encrypting a SOAP Message |
04-05-2009
| |
New |
JSP |
Bean Attributes, Standard Actions, Expression Language (EL), EL Functions, JSP Include |
30-04-2009
| |
New |
JBoss |
JMS, Message-Driven Bean (MDB), Message-Driven POJO, JBoss Messaging |
28-04-2009
| |
New |
JBoss |
Session beans, Hibernate, EJB configuration, EJB Containers, Entity Persistence, JMX Service Objects, Transport Protocol, Securing EJB and EJB Comms |
21-04-2009
| |
New |
JBoss |
Authentication, Authorization and Encrypted Communications |
19-04-2009
| |
New |
JSP |
JSP variables, declaration, expressions, comments, Introduction to Expression Language (EL) and Actions |
17-04-2009
| |
New |
JBoss |
Deployment Descriptor files, Key files and directories, virtual hosts, HTTP and AJP Connectors, Valves |
15-04-2009
| |
New |
JBoss |
JBoss SX framework, Secure Communications, SSL-aware security domains, login modules |
13-04-2009
| |
New |
JBoss |
Understanding deployment, application packages, deployers, classloading, deploying miscellaneous applications, deploying a hibernate archive |
05-04-2009
| |
New |
JBoss |
Installation, Directory Structure, Server Configurations, Boot Sequence, Logging, System Properties |
04-04-2009
| |
New |
JSP |
Sessions, Cookies, URL Rewriting, HttpSession milestones, Listeners |
03-04-2009
| |
New |
JBoss |
An introduction to JBoss application server, the architecture, JMX, MBeans, Microcontainer |
30-03-2009
| |
New |
Tomcat |
Best practices, tomcat error messages, JVM tuning and Tomcat tuning |
29-03-2009
| |
New |
JSP |
Discuss ServletContext, Init parameters, attributes, SingleThreadModel |
26-03-2009
| |
New |
Tomcat |
Performance testing Tomcat using JMeter |
26-03-2009
| |
New |
Tomcat |
Discussing logging within Tomcat using log4j and JULI |
25-03-2009
| |
New |
Tomcat |
Tomcat Clustering, In-Memory, File-based and JDBC-based persistent managers |
22-03-2009
| |
New |
Tomcat |
Monitoring and Managing Tomcat with JMX also discuss MBeans and how to use Manager JMX proxy and JConsole. |
21-03-2009
| |
New |
JSP |
Servlets Life Cycle, HTTP Methods, Request and Response Objects |
21-03-2009
| |
New |
JSP |
A mini tutorial on MVC (Model View Controller) |
19-03-2009
| |
New |
Tomcat |
Virtual Hosts (IP-Based and Named-Based) and discussing tuning and security within virtual hosts. |
18-03-2009
| |
New |
Tomcat |
Tomcat security (securing JVM, Policy files, Realms, SSL, DefaultServlet, restricting hosts) |
17-03-2009
| |
New |
Tomcat |
Tomcat and JDBC connectivity |
14-03-2009
| |
New |
JSP |
Containers, URL mapping, MVC introduction and how JEE fits into this |
13-03-2009
| |
New |
JSP |
HTML, URL, CGI, Java Servlets and JSPs are discussed |
13-03-2009
| |
New |
Tomcat |
Tomcat and Apache interaction (AJP Connector, Tomcat Workers, SSL and Load Balancing) |
12-03-2009
| |
New |
Tomcat |
I discuss the HTTP Connectors and touch on performance Tuning the Connectors |
10-03-2009
| |
New |
Tomcat |
Java and Tomcats class loaders |
09-03-2009
| |
New |
Tomcat |
Using Tomcat's Administration Manager and how to use HTTP commands to manage Tomcat |
05-03-2009
| |
New |
Tomcat |
I discuss the Web application directory structure and describe how the web.xml file is configured |
03-03-2009
| |
New |
Tomcat |
I discuss some of the advanced features of Tomcat access logs, single sign-on, request filtering, persistent session management, JDBC, JNDI, JavaMail and Lifecycle listeners |
26-02-2009
| |
New |
Tomcat |
I explain what the main files in Tomcat do server.xml, context.xml, web.xml, tomcat-users.xml, catalina.properties and catalina.policy |
25-02-2009
| |
New |
Tomcat |
I explain how Tomcat works |
25-02-2009
| |
New |
Tomcat |
How to install the JVM and Tomcat, I also explain the APR, directory structure and troubleshooting tips |
25-02-2009
| |
new |
Tomcat |
A brief introduction to Tomcat Web applications |
25-02-2009
| |
New |
Tomcat |
A brief introduction to Tomcat |
18-02-2009
| |
New |
Tomcat |
A new guide on Tomcat/Apache 6 |
18-02-2009
| |
New |
JBoss |
A new guide on JBoss AS 5 |
18-02-2009
| |
New |
JSP |
A new guide on JSP, Servlets and Java Web Services |
22-12-2008
| |
New |
Exim |
Quick and dirty cheat sheet for Exim |
18-12-2008
| |
New |
Exim |
Step by step guide on how to decrypt the runtime configuration file. |
10-12-2008
| |
New |
Exim |
Log files, log formats, Exim utilities, Hints database |
10-12-2008
| |
New |
Exim |
using Exim's commandline option (testing, debugging, queue runner, daemon, etc) |
09-12-2008
| |
New |
Exim |
Touching on the smaller subjects in exim - security, privileged users, timestamps, pool space, SMTP banners |
04-12-2008
| |
New |
Exim |
Discussing how Exim's lists work (Domain, Hosts and Address) |
03-12-2008
| |
New |
Exim |
String operations, text substitution, conditional expansion, lookup expansion, extracting fields, testing string substitution |
02-12-2008
| |
New |
Exim |
Short introduction into Exim's lookup methods (lsearch, partial-lsearch) |
02-12-2008
| |
New |
Exim |
Discussing submission mode, header lines, Rewriting addresses |
01-12-2008
| |
New |
Exim |
How Exim verifies addresses |
01-12-2008
| |
New |
Exim |
Explaining how Exim's ACLs work |
26-11-2008
| |
New |
Exim |
Discussing messages checks locally and remotely and rate controls. |
24-11-2008
| |
New |
Exim |
Delivery errors, remote, local and the retry rules. |
23-11-2008
| |
New |
Exim |
Explain the processes that Exim uses, daemon, reception, queue runner and the delivery processes |
20-11-2008
| |
New |
Exim |
Discussing user, system and .forward file filters |
19-11-2008
| |
New |
Exim |
Discussing the transport types and options |
18-11-2008
| |
New |
Exim |
Discuss the generic transport options available to exim |
14-11-2008
| |
New |
Website |
This a complete copy of my website that you can download and browse offline, it was suggested to me by a regular visitor to my website. It can be handy if you don't have access to the internet when trying to resolve a problem i.e customers site. I will try and keep this updated monthly. |
14-11-2008
| |
New |
Exim |
Discussing the router types and options |
13-11-2008
| |
New |
Java |
Bit Manipulation using bitwise AND, inclusive OR and exclusive OR , one's complement and the bit shifting |
13-11-2008
| |
New |
Java |
Vector, Stack, Dictionary, Hashtable, Properties, Random Classes |
11-11-2008
| |
New |
Exim |
Discuss the generic router options available to exim |
11-11-2008
| |
New |
Java |
Introduction to Remote Method Invocation |
10-11-2008
| |
New |
Exim |
A guide on how to configure and administer the Exim SMTP mail server, this will be updated over the coming weeks |
07-11-2008
| |
New |
Java |
Linked Lists, stacks, queues and trees |
06-11-2008
| |
New |
Java |
A start on Java networking, I hope to expand on this in the very near future |
05-11-2008
| |
New |
Java |
A simple guide on how to use images, audio and video in Java, I hope to extend on this further with the Game programming documentation I will be writing |
04-11-2008
| |
New |
Solaris |
I have had to upgrade a number of Solaris hard disks from 18GB to 146GB, here is my solution |
29-10-2008
| |
New |
Oracle |
Oracle 11g - regexp_count, regexp_instr, regexp_like, regexp_replace, regexp_substr |
29-10-2008
| |
New |
Oracle |
Short introduction into SQL (DDL, DML, DQL and DCL) |
28-10-2008
| |
New |
Oracle |
basics, getters and setters, static member methods, comparing objects, inheritance and polymorphism |
28-10-2008
| |
New |
Oracle |
Using C and Java Libraries |
27-10-2008
| |
New |
Oracle |
dbms_pipes, dbms_alerts |
26-10-2008
| |
New |
Oracle |
Dynamic SQL - NDS, DBMS_SQL Package |
26-10-2008
| |
New |
Perl |
The Perl debugger |
26-10-2008
| |
New |
Perl |
Require function, $#<array>, Alternative delimiters, Back quotes |
24-10-2008
| |
New |
Perl |
A start on OOP in Perl |
23-10-2008
| |
Update |
Oracle |
Complete makeover, now have DML, DDL, Compound, Instead-of, System trigger sections. |
20-10-2008
| |
New |
Oracle |
CLOB, NCLOB, BLOB and BFILES |
17-10-2008
| |
New |
Perl |
Referencing scalars, arrays, hashes and subroutines. |
16-10-2008
| |
Update |
Oracle |
complete makeover for this subject plus added some 11g stuff (new set operators) |
10-10-2008
| |
New |
Perl |
System Function, Working with sockets, Unix V IPC Operations |
10-10-2008
| |
New |
Perl |
File and Directory access commands (pipes, chdir, seek and tell, chmod, chown, etc) |
10-10-2008
| |
New |
Perl |
How to read from files and write to files |
09-10-2008
| |
New |
Java |
A start on the Java Layout Managers (basic only, Advanced to follow) |
09-10-2008
| |
New |
Java |
Introduction to basic Java Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) |
09-10-2008
| |
Update |
Oracle |
updated alot of the cursor stuff |
07-10-2008
| |
New |
Java |
How to use Java Graphics and the Java2D API |
07-10-2008
| |
Update |
Oracle |
Updated the symbol and function selection, added quoting alternative, also corrected some typo's |
05-10-2008
| n/a |
Update |
WebSite |
Added a favicon to my website |
05-10-2008
| |
New |
Perl |
Introduction into Perl's associative arrays |
04-10-2008
| |
New |
Perl |
Manipulating arrays, lists and associative arrays |
02-10-2008
| |
New |
Java |
Open, read, writing and closing files - sequential and random access |
28-09-2008
| |
New |
Perl |
chop, chomp, scalar, oct, hex and Pack |
27-09-2008
| |
New |
Perl |
Eval, fork, system, die, warn exit, etc functions |
23-09-2008
| |
New |
Java |
Thread States, synchronizing, Thread Interaction |
18-09-2008
| |
New |
Java |
Inner Classes, Method-Local inner classes, Anonymous classes, Static Nested classes |
18-09-2008
| |
New |
Java |
toString(), overriding equals() and hashCode(), Collections, Garbage collector |
16-09-2008
| |
New |
Java |
String and StringBuffer class, Math Class, Wrapper Class and Equals. |
15-09-2008
| |
New |
Java |
Introduction into Java Object-Oriented Programming |
14-09-2008
| |
New |
Perl |
Using write and printf perl functions |
14-09-2008
| |
New |
Perl |
Beginning guide to Perl lists and arrays |
12-09-2008
| |
New |
Perl |
Defining, invoking, References, Return values, etc |
12-09-2008
| |
New |
Perl |
Single-line conditional statements, looping and goto statement |
10-09-2008
| |
New |
Java |
Exception handling and Assertions |
10-09-2008
| |
New |
Java |
If, if-else, while, loops, etc |
09-09-2008
| |
New |
Java |
Fundamentals of Operators and Assignment |
07-09-2008
| |
New |
Perl |
Pattern-Matching, special characters, pattern-matching options |
06-09-2008
| |
Update |
Perl |
Added Escape Sequences, Perl Operators, Precedence Order |
06-09-2008
| |
New |
Perl |
Finishing off the Perl Operators |
05-09-2008
| |
New |
Perl |
Introduction of scalar values - integer, floating-point, character, etc |
04-09-2008
| |
New |
Java |
Declarations and Modifiers, Declaration Rules, Interface Implementation |
03-09-2008
| |
New |
Java |
Keywords, data types, Variables, Arrays |
01-09-2008
| |
Amendment |
Oracle |
Having just restored and recovered a database, I have changed my notes as I had some many errors, goes show don't believe all that you read. |
01-09-2008
| |
New |
Java |
Introduction to Java Application and Applet Programming |
30-08-2008
| |
New |
Perl |
Scalar Variables, Arithmetic Operators, Conditional Loops |
30-08-2008
| |
New |
Perl |
Obtaining and Running a perl program |
30-08-2008
| |
New |
Perl |
Needed my own Perl guide (will be adding to this on a weekly basis) |
29-08-2008
| |
New |
Solaris |
Finally created my own ODS web page (just the basics) |
28-08-2008
| |
New |
Oracle |
Startup/Shutdown commands, operation modes, obtaining basic oracle information |
26-08-2008
| |
New |
Java |
A Start on documenting the Java programming course I have recently completed |
26-08-2008
| |
Amendment |
Oracle |
typo's |
