Cooked Matambre for Memorial Day BBQ

Lisa got a new gas grill and I've been able to try a couple of new recipes on the grill; one being a Matambre roll.

I recommend Steven Raichlen's book, "How to Grill," which has a good recipe that's easy to follow.

Gas grilling with the amount of irradiated heat coming from the burner caused the meat to cook faster than expected so when we were finally ready to serve it was good but could have been a little moister.

SSH > read from remote host < > operation timed out

I have a MacBook Pro and I connect to a lot of Linux Enterprise machines throughout the day from the terminal window.

Unfortunately, I was getting hung SSH sessions after going to lunch where the session would have to quit on its own to give me the terminal prompt again.

As in a majority of my research forays I had to do some Google searches and found I needed to update my /etc/ssh_config and /etc/sshd_config files on my client and server machines.

Adding these lines to my ssh_config on my client side Mac in /etc/ssh_config >


Host *
ServerAliveInterval 240

AND on the server side in /etc/ssh/sshd_config, enabling >

ClientAliveInterval 240

seemed to work.

I made sure to restart my sshd server too with the command /etc/init.d/sshd restart.

Haven't had session timeouts in the last day...

One Simple Trick!

I really dislike the one simple trick ads that have been online for the last few years.

I really wish they would go away, but I can see their appeal. I've certainly been sucked in by wondering what the one simple trick would be for some of those remedies they are selling.

Basil wilted from cold getting down to 36 degrees overnight

I left my basil and Italian parsley out overnight on my front porch. The early morning temperature according to the NCAR foothills lab weather site got down to 37 degrees.

I didn't do my due diligence with researching basil cold tolerance so the leaves wilted :) I brought it in late morning and will keep it in the house for the next few days.

According to one site, as long as the basil didn't freeze it should come back but I might have to trim some of the stems and leaves that might necrophy.

Update: After 8 hours the leaves did come back so it didn't take too long

Here are the photo of the basil plant after it was taken inside:

Here is a photo of the plant after 8 hours inside:

Jira Administration - custom fields

We use JIRA here at work. 

For logging bugs we have users fill out a form for a defect and then submit.

To edit those forms we need Administrative privileges and when you get to the form in question there are fields and custom fields.

Some fields just update the Field label and you actually need to click on the left side on Custom fields for some fields that use pulldown menus (e.g. versions for a product).

Maybe less than intuitive but for some JIRA form edits you need to look at the custom fields screen.

Believe half of what you read and three-fourths of what you see

Great adage my 9th grade teacher taught us.

Amazing how we can forget something like this. Wonder how many people applied this when they were investing with Bernie Madoff.

Resolving runtime JUnit issues when Eclipse builds your JUnit project flawlessly

Currently I'm writing automation using JUnit to test REST endpoints.

I'm using Eclipse Iridium with Perforce and Maven as plugins. Eclipse builds my automation project just fine and I can also build successfully on the command line too using Maven (e.g. mvn -Dmaven.test.skip=true clean install).

When I launched my JUnit class I was getting a method not found error. After some exploring through Google I found a very handy Java method call to resolve my runtime dependencies and see what JAR file Java and/or Maven were using.

The method I used was:

System.out.println(Base64.class.getProtectionDomain().getCodeSource().getLocation());

The link to the original article is here.

It seemed under my .m2 directory a prior version of apache commons was being used during runtime (1.2 versus 1.5).

As a temporary stopgap measure I copied the 1.5 JAR file into the 1.2 Maven repository and I got my runtime working.