Rocket Surgery

I was thinking of trying out another MMORPG, so when a friend told me she played Vanguard Saga of Heroes, I decided to try it out.

Don’t.

It’s terrible.  It’s buggy–seriously buggy.  Weird graphical artifacts all over the screen buggy.  Sound stuck in loops like a broken record buggy.  Miserable frame rate, and the graphics aren’t that great — heck, the new graphics in Runescape are nearly as good.

I never should have played World of Warcraft.  Once you get tired of that, there’s nowhere to go!!!

In my last post I talked about getting involved with the Hudson project. In this post I will describe the steps I took to set up my build environment.

1. Get JDK 6.0 (Hudson cannot be built using 5.0 or earlier) and install it.
2. Get Subversion and install it.

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Here is a powerpoint presentation I once did for a joint conference of the Hampton Roads Oracle User Group and Greater Richmond Oracle User Group.  The presentation goes over how you can use DBCP to add connection pooling to your application, and how to hook up your application to use JDBC connection pools provided by your application server via JNDI.

Also available is a partial Eclipse project with sample code - but it is truly partial. To execute the code, you’ll need to add in client jars for your app server and set up a database to work with.