Mmm, software

Many times in the past I've tried to get our foreign MySQL server to properly store and handle unicode character sets. Despite the fact...

God damn, I'm getting so fucking tired of Hibernate and its quirks. Here's a new one regarding Criteria queries : When you create a...

Spring AOP is breaking my heart. Spring overall is a great framework and I love working with it. The idea of using aspects to interweave c...

...do it. You just might find a page with me ... pointing at Google on my screen. Today I was messing around with some of the CSS styling i...

I've come to really admire the way the open source community has been versioning their products over the last couple years, especially i...

I rarely (if ever) use switch statements, mainly because if their use is required, generally a very poor design decision has been made. But...

Eclipse has always been a very useful platform, with tons of little developer driven quirks that make the programmer's job so muche easi...

Yet more hibernate fun facts that I wish I'd had before I started any projects : Hibernate has the ability to persist instances of java....

If you're into the software scene, then you most likely know that some of the big buzz terms in the last few years have been RAD (Rapid ...

I received a pleasant surprise in my inbox today (which doesn't happen often), and that surprise was an email from the Spring Batch team...

Today at the company where I work, our remotely hosted server went down suddenly. Nobody know why, and then the shit started to hit the fan...

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 ...