Mmm, software

I recently found myself developing (and using) a lot of small tag libraries to make my life easier when it comes to developing my web applic...

A quick note on Java enums : I discovered today that not only can enums have methods (which is exceedingly useful to begin with), but that y...

Recently, I discovered the joy of the PropertyEditorRegistrar interface in the Springframework, for conveniently registering property editor...

I love RSS, I think it's a great way to read the news and generally stay up to date on any sites you read and any (legit) torrents you m...

Yet again, I'm posting because of fucking hibernate. One of the old quirks I had run across was that if you had a setter for a collecti...

As mentioned in the documentation, the Spring Framework uses property editors in two places: 1) When parsing ApplicationContexts from XML co...

I love Linux. Now, at this point, you're probably thinking that I'm just one of these fanboy nerds that loves to sit on a computer ...

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...