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How to print out SOAP messages in Axis2

Axis2 has a rather convoluted architecture and getting access to raw SOAP messages flying in and out is difficult, especially if they travel via HTTPS. Fortunately, WasJavaGuy has found an API path to it.

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anything-ack.el released

We are happy to announce that our little scriplet anyhting-ack.el is released. It extends Emacs’ popular Anything package to use Ack search tool and is based on two existing pieces of code: ack.el and anything-grep.el by Philip Jackson and rubykitch , respectively. The scriplet is released underĀ  GNU General Public License.

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List of Postgres tables with their sizes and indexes

It’s a common database administration task, but it’s somehow not that easy with any database I worked with. For Postgres, here are three examples

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“Hidden in Plain Sight” book

Finished a third of the Hidden in Plain Sight book. I thought I read good reviews about it, but I could not find them any more. Anyway, the premise is this: find out what customers want and deliver it. This breakthrough insight is based on a number of corporate anecdotes. I feel cheated out of [...]

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Moving indices to a different partition in the Microsoft SQL Server

Let’s say your database grows big and you need to add additional storage. You can engage in a re-partitioning project using a backup/restore strategy, but the simplest thing to do is to start with moving indices. Here is the script to do that:

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