Monthly Archives: July 2010

JDK 6 update 21 kind of breaks Eclipse on Windows

If you recently upgraded to JDK 6 update 21 on Windows and are noticing lots of Eclipse problems, I probably know why (and can show you how to fix it). First, some background. The HotSpot VM (Sun’s implementation) has a concept known as the Permanent Generation, or PermGen for short. Its main purpose is to [...]

And that’s why you keep WordPress up to date

So, less than a week after I passed my security certification exam, my blog got hacked because I hadn’t updated WordPress in a while. Oops. I decided to move my blog to a host that will make updating my copy of WordPress a little easier (DreamHost, if you are wondering), but all of my old [...]