Mmm, software

It's been a while since I've written a blog post, and I figured this was a good topic to write about. For the most part, I don'...

Subversion is a great tool, but unfortunately it has to store metadata somewhere, and like all other code repository tools, it stores them i...

An idea for resolving the logging issues in Tomcat just occurred to me. I should probably be putting the logging jars in the individual lib...

Ok, so after Eclipse Europa (3.3) has been out for quite some time, I decided to give it a try. I was shocked to discover a lot of the chan...

As my application has been growing more and more in functionality, it has also been growing in its memory footprint. To that end, I've ...

Ok, so after Googling around and hours of patient command line testing (yeah, I know, it's horrible, you don't have to tell me) I ma...

Ok, I let my obsessions get the better of me and I couldn't drop it : I kept searching the interwebs until I had found a solution for my...

I didn't even notice it until today that it's the one year anniversary of this blog. Actually, the anniversary was two days ago, but...

My recent foray into developing Maven plugins has led me to a horrible discovery : the Maven developers ... suck. They're just not prof...

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...