In my current project I am developing some Jython based command line tools and had the need for masking passwords entered in the command shell. Python provides the getpass module for this purpose. Unfortunately this module has not been made available for Jython. Here comes a module I wrote to provide this kind of functionality….
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WebSphere Portal 6.1.0.0 does not support installation on a managed node
With WebSphere Portal 5.1 a new deployment option was introduced that allowed the installation of WP onto an existing node managed by a deployment manager. AFAIK the main reason for this new option was to simplify the cluster setup procedure. Both options, installing WP standalone and federating it into a cell afterwards as well as…
[Solved] Blank Pages with WordPress 2.6.x
After upgrading to WordPress 2.6 it occasionally happend that an empty page was displayed in the browser when navigating through the blog or working in the admin area. Refreshing the browser using CTRL+F5 usually helped in that case. Today I upgraded to WordPress 2.6.2 and I was not able to access the plug-ins page of…
Sun JDK5/6 compilers broken when linking overloaded methods with variable arguments
We are currently switching the build system of OVal from custom Ant scripts to Maven 2. During that process we accidentally compiled the project using the Java compiler of the Sun JDK 5 instead of the AspectJ compiler. Surprisingly javac did not complain about the missing aspect class files. Instead it already aborted while compiling…
Making the DD Sitemap Generator Plug-in work with multilingual blogs
To create a bilingual blog with WordPress I am using the Language Switcher Plug-in. This plug-in allows you to put content in more than one language into the post title and content fields by surrounding the localized texts with special tags indicating their language (e.g. “[ lang_en]Hello World[ /lang_en][ lang_de]Hallo Welt[ /lang_de]”). When the posts…
[Solved] WordPress 2.5 One-Click Plug-in Upgrades – Could not create directory
Some days ago I upgraded my WordPress installation to the new 2.5 release. Being a lazy guy I of course wanted to use the new one-click plug-in upgrade feature to update several plug-ins. Trying to one-click update some of the out-dated plug-ins only resulted in the rather meaningless error message “Could not create directory”. So…