Today I started looking for a way to learn more about Oracle Databases. I want to this because my database knowledge is limited and that’s one of my weak points when applying for a job. Problem is that I don’t know where to start. I found several tutorials, but they all seem very advanced and …

After having some problems with my previous tomcat installation, I decided to upgrade it to Tomcat 4.1.29. The whole upgrade went without any problem and all webapps are running smoothly again. If you want to integrate Tomcat and Apache on Redhat, like I did, I can recommend this howto from Mike Millson

Tried to install Roller, but it didn’t work. An exception occurs when the webapp is loaded: Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class org.roller.presentation.RollerContext java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.lucene.index.IndexWriter. (IndexWriter.java:143) I’m going to leave it for now and integrate Movable Type with a Struts webapp, so I can put everything (like the rss aggregation …

Now that I have my own tomcat engine running I’m sure I should be able to run Roller, a Java and J2EE based weblogging program. I will try to get the webapp running, evaluate the application and when it’s running fine I will try to integrate it in Wouter.Net.

I started to rebuild this site using Struts, because I am planning to extend the possibility to syndicate other rss feeds. I see it as my own blogrolling system where I can see the topics on each blog and even read the content of the topics. And when that system will be running I could …