How £75 billion of quantitative easing may result in the government bailing out the banks for an additional £960 billion.

With the government going on a reckless course of quantitative easing will this eventually be inflationary? The answer is clearly yes as our government do not have the backbone to reduce the money supply again when the economy improves. Through fractional reserve banking the government will be pumping £2.4 trillion into the economy for lending. If 40% of that credit goes bad then the government may end up bailing out the banks for an additional £960 billion.

That would make the total debt for each working person in the UK of £32,500 on top of the current national debt of £36,500!

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05.03.2009 01:32 - Posted by doahh - Comments: 0 - Economics & politics

Struts 2.0.11 datetimepicker while using a hyphen as the date separator

I had a problem submitting the Struts 2.0.11 <s:datetimepicker ... /> tag to my action when I used hyphens as the display format separator. Luckily the answer is simply to use / instead.

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04.03.2009 11:25 - Posted by doahh - Comments: 0 - Java

Adding an SSL certificate to your java keystore in Linux

I found it difficult to get specific information on how to do this so I have detailed what worked for me. I was doing this in order to get Jasigs Central Authentication Server integrated with Tomcat. The error I was trying to solve was:

javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target

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03.03.2009 10:13 - Posted by doahh - Comments: 0 - Java

Loading a Spring configuration file programitically

I was using the Java Plugin Framework that helped provide plugin functionality for my web application. The plugins needed to be Spring enabled so they could leverage the web applications code base but as they were only loaded at runtime the applicationContext.xml of the plugin had to be loaded programitically.

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02.03.2009 11:44 - Posted by doahh - Comments: 3 - Java

Using the Java Plugin Framework in a web application

The Java Plugin Framework (JPF) is an excellent framework for developing plugin for either a desktop application or web application using Java. The problem is that there is no support and the plugin no longer seems to be in development. The only other alternative is OSGI which for many projects will just be too complicated.

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27.02.2009 07:23 - Posted by doahh - Comments: 1 - Java

Getting the stack trace from an exception in Java

Getting the StackTrace from an Java Exception wasn't as easy as I had hoped. It needed a couple of extra steps that I hadn't anticipated.

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26.02.2009 10:02 - Posted by doahh - Comments: 0 - Java

Struts 2 and SSL switching (part 2)

Setting up the Struts2 SSL switching plugin (part 2) for automatic SSL re-direction.

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25.02.2009 12:00 - Posted by doahh - Comments: 0 - Java

Struts 2 and SSL switching (part 1)

Adding SSL switching support to Struts2 using the SSL Switching plugin.

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24.02.2009 02:26 - Posted by doahh - Comments: 1 - Java

Permgen errors in Tomcat when using Hibernate.

If you are getting permgen errors every time you redeploy your application to Tomcat then you can at least get it good enough to work with by switching it to use the JRockit implementation.

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23.02.2009 03:42 - Posted by doahh - Comments: 0 - Java

Slumdog Millionaire paying peanuts to slum kid actors

The film Slumdog Millionaire was a good film but maybe the ethics of how the child actors were paid is a little more than questionable. $3,000 would have seemed like a fortune to them but for a film that has made $140 million, it seems like small reward to me.

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22.02.2009 06:35 - Posted by doahh - Comments: 0 - General

Hypocritical government u-turn on protectionism

Within a two week period the government has gone on television and stated two opposite policies on protectionism. They also stated one policy about British jobs for British people while setting up a new cross-party parliamentary group to look into off-shoring British I.T. projects to India.

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22.02.2009 01:43 - Posted by doahh - Comments: 0 - Economics & politics

Simple Struts 2 and hibernate integration

A simple example of setting up hibernate to work alongside Struts2.

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22.02.2009 01:11 - Posted by doahh - Comments: 0 - Java

UK Chancellors new powers to print money in secret

The Chancellor's new powers to allow him to offer bank aid in secrecy comes into force today. Yet more legislation from our government in an attempt to control its people and obfuscate the knowledge base that would allow them to make free and independent decisions in a supposedly free market.

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21.02.2009 11:04 - Posted by doahh - Comments: 0 - Economics & politics

Struts 2 form with validation and XHTML CSS layout (part 3)

This is the third and final part of how to create an XHTML layout with CSS styling using Struts2 as the framework.

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21.02.2009 08:53 - Posted by doahh - Comments: 0 - Java

Struts 2 form with validation and XHTML CSS layout (part 2)

This follows on from yesterdays post and shows how to ceate a Struts2 form using only CSS and HTML.

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20.02.2009 01:11 - Posted by doahh - Comments: 0 - Java