Mmm, software

I've sadly discovered that my previous post was lacking some bits of information. For starters, when using tomcat, you should place thi...

This post's going to have to be short because I desperately want to get out of work to go play poker. The short version: I just spent t...

If you're a serious developer / software engineer, then you know how important it is to keep a system you're building as modular as ...

For quite a while I've wanted an easier way of using Jasper Reports in my web applications. My first go around with Jasper Reports invo...

Ok, so only the first two of the title trio have anything to do with each other. The latter's just the sound an air cannon makes and I ...

I have. Really. I'm sitting around researching screen scrapers (because it'll be horribly useful for work, sadly) and while Googli...

If you know me, then you've seen my analogy with two fists to staying on the ball. If not, just know that it's a great analogy. The...

What I'm about to say is neither a new thought nor a new sentiment in the least: Internet Explorer sucks. I don't just say that beca...

There's a ton of things every user should know about Linux / Unix, and I'll be the first to admit that I don't know nearly as mu...

In an attempt to make one of my web applications more user friendly and bulletproof it against silly people at the same time, I've been ...

To give you a little bit of background, I recently upgraded to Firefox 2.0 and I frequently use the hotkeys and search bar. A lot. More th...

I've recently discovered that for the sake of compatibility with various languages and internationalization, that UTF-8 should be used f...

Holy crap, things are just getting more and more busy here at work, but I just had to take a break to blog this so I don't forget about ...

I've been putting off posting to this blog longer and longer, and I really dislike doing that. The subject of today's post is more ...

I've recently discovered the joy that is Spring WebFlow. For those not in the know, it's a Java web component specifically meant fo...

That sounds like a a crazy statement to any normal person not familiar with Java, or at least to my coworkers, as normal as they are. I dis...

In my attempts to make pretty web pages to go along with my web applications, I've been spending numerous hours Googling around, seeing ...

Today is officially my 21st straight day without a day off, though I suppose that technically this counts as a day off because I'm worki...

I suppose you have to have an inital post to kick things off, so that's what my last post was. This post is about the ever useful Displ...

I hate blogs. People who post on them are usually jerks. I guess this makes me a jerk. But I wanted to start this one for my own personal...