Today I supposed to pull latest code  from perforce source control system and set up the project in eclipse and test it whether it is working or not. I finished setting up the project and published the all projects to eclipse tomcat directory, while starting the tomcat I was getting below error
Server Tomcat v5.5 Server [...]

I am getting this socket connection error in my java web application, which was working very well for long time. I did see this behaviour when I ran huge batch of database insertions/updates. Below is the java stacktrace of this error.

I was trying to install mysql in centOS, which is rpm based Linux operating system like redhat, fedora etc. And I wanted to find out if it already installed or not.

Many times I forget the Linux command which is used to see the centOS linux operating system version. So, decided to write down it here on my blog and refer back when i forget. I hope it may also help others!

Since from two months I have been working on developing python application to automate the web importer task for our web application, and after completing import job an email needs to be sent to support team with the importer status.