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Generating a List of Blogger Post Titles

12 Aug 2016
I wanted to create a Blogger page containing a list of all the posts in this blog. I was not able to find a pre-built widget to do this.

Set Up CentOS 7 on VMWare

31 Jul 2016
Overview on setting up networking and a GUI.

JSF and EE6 managed beans and scopes

27 Dec 2015
Cheat sheet for JSF and EE6 managed beans and scopes.

PhantomJS Binary for Selenium - Build Notes

29 Oct 2015
Configuring a headless browser on Linux using PhantomJS, to support Selenium testing.

Informatica PowerCenter Installation and Configuration

18 Oct 2015
Commands to help build an Informatica PowerCenter environment, after completing a fresh software installation on a new Linux server.

Largest Files and Directories in a Linux Filesystem

18 Oct 2015
A script to find the largest files and directories on a linux file system.

Notes on SSH Configuration on Linux

06 Aug 2015
If you want to use ssh to connect to another server, using an authorized key instead of a password…

Counting Lines in Text Files

04 Sep 2014
When the only thing you want is the overall line count grand total…

Ivy Settings for Ant

24 May 2014
Ivy settings for Ant

PowerCenter XML - Problem using Booleans

23 Dec 2013
I had an xs:boolean data type which remained unresponsive to 0, 1, false, true, ‘false’, ’true’ values.  In other words, the transformation was not evaluating these values correctly (or at all) in my XML parser transformation.