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Stop Maven Complaining about javax/jms/jms/1.1/jms-1.1.jar; cannot read zip file

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My build was breaking due to Maven complaining about not being able to read jms-1.1.jar, as if it was corrupt after having been downloaded.

Deleting it from my local repository and letting it re-download fixed it a couple of times, but for what it’s worth I eventually stopped it from behaving like this by changing my log4j dependency from version 1.2.15 to 1.2.14.

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February 25th, 2010 at 8:40 pm

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Fix Redeployment of Webapps to Tomcat in Windows

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I came across an annoying bug today where I was able to deploy a webapp to Tomcat once, but subsequent redeployments resulted in an exception when attempting to write to the server.
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December 16th, 2008 at 10:10 pm

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Fix Your Broken flickrRSS WordPress Plugin

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A few days ago I noticed my flickrRSS WordPress plugin had inexplicably stopped working, and was not loading any of my images. Is your problem the same as mine? I’m running WordPress 2.6.2 and flickrRSS Version 4. Here’s how I fixed it…
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October 22nd, 2008 at 8:19 pm

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Posting flickr Images to phpBB3 using HTML and Custom BBCode

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Due to the fact that phpBB3 doesn’t let you post html, posting images from flickr on phpBB3 looks like a bit of a hash-up involving [IMG] and [URL] tags. I searched for ages for a Custom BBCode that allowed you to post the HTML provided by flickr on the “All Sizes” page in a custom tag, but found nothing. Thankfully, one of my friends knocked one together – so here’s how to use flickr’s HTML in a custom phpBB3 BBCode tag and get nice output. Read the rest of this entry »

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October 9th, 2008 at 2:37 am

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