Mmm, software

I'm somewhat embarrassed to admit this, but I've just discovered Linux ACLs, which are apparently in every kernel 2.6+, and has plug...

They're oh so useful for encapsulating small bits of reusable logic, but, here's the kicker : when they're compiled, only one in...

OK, so once again in my (seemingly never-ending) struggle with Hibernate, I have stuff to report that's mainly being posted here for my ...

Today I had the chance to build a new project right from scratch for a quick and dirty app that needs to be spat out right quick. I figured...

This probably sounds pretty off-topic for a tech blog, but it's not that far off. Recently I had to populate our database with ISO data...

I think that one of the things people realize when they start a new job (I haven't) is that the way things are done currently are done t...

I recently stumbled across a glowing review of the Wicket framework that made me want to research it and try it out. The author's main...

A while ago at our company, a request was made to me to create a separate instance of one of our webapplications for a select group of custo...

Excel has this annoying quirk of propagating unwanted hyperlinks in the background of spreadsheets, and in our organization, it gets to the ...

Lately I've started to get back into research mode in the hopes of making my development cycles shorter, especially since the end of a l...

No, it's not batch processing that takes place in the springtime (although that does happen at our company). It's actually a new su...

If you're using m2eclipse (which I've found to be quite useful), you should be aware that it doesn't always check the settings....

I've learned the hard why today why logs are uberuseful (once again) and that RSSH is a pain to debug if you're having trouble with ...

God f*ck*ng dammit, I'm so freaking tired of fucking Hibernate's shitty ass documentation wasting my time: In the event that you eve...

For the longest time during my developer's journey of discovery while learning how to build web applications, I've come across refer...

For the longest time, I've had my head up my ass: I've been content to build my projects with ant and the (very few) ant targets I...

Frequently I find that there are dozens of technologies I want to learn, but really just don't have the time. As a list to myself (and ...

I've recently been trying to read more and more developer blogs in the hopes of improving myself as a developer. One of the blogs I cam...

This post is really just a mental note to myself: the difference between links and forms is that links do not submit form variables. (Duh!) ...

I was recently assigned a task whereby I had to obtain data from the website of one of our commercial services, but the website is completel...