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A lot of relational tables need created and update timestamps columns. I prefer having them for all tables with no exception. However, most of applications I am working on are running MySQL. MySQL has minor limitation on timestamps. Unfortunately you can create only one time stamp column that has DEFAULT NOW() value. Read more to see how to avoid this limitation. (continue reading…)

If you are familiar to run Apache Tomcat as Windows service, you can install it with the ant task. build.xml file sample under the cut line. (continue reading…)