I just received a business case document that is in Final Draft. Either my client is very confident I will not find fault in this document, or... Hmmm.

If you are also frustrated by the fact that by default, Parallels will only write the RAM image to disk at 20MB/s even on a fast internal drive, then fear not.

Go to Virtual Machine > Configure > Hardware > Boot Order and add this to the Bootflags:

vm.mem_flush_limit=0
vm.mem_anonymous=1

Recently I had to make my JBoss Seam web application support both English and Georgian. Naturally their character set is not to be found in ASCII, so I had to rely on JBoss Seam and Java's support for UTF-8.

Just performing the normal steps did not work for me though. I needed to convert my messages resource bundle to ASCII - using either the mentioned native2ascii tool which is part of the JDK, or in my case, Changing this in IntelliJ Idea:

I developed a very well oiled JBoss Seam application, which has been working great. However my client today told me they could not save anything. Curious, I investigated.

It seems like none of my conversation states are being remembered. Needless to say, in a Seam application this wreaks havoc.

By applying simple deductive reasoning, I tracked the problem down to this recent addition:

As I promised a while ago, here are some photos of our first and second snow falls this season.