Category Archives: Technical stuff

caucho’s got a facelift

You may, or may not know that I’m still a Resin user. Hence, every now and then I hit the Caucho site for documentation, mailing list archives, etc. Well today I decided to do just that; it had been at … Continue reading

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JSR 303… 2 years later

Back in ’06, I wrote about JSR 303, which aims to bring Bean Validation to the JDK. Well to be specific, it defines a meta-data model and API for JavaBean validation. The spec. draft aslo states that it will not … Continue reading

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constrained resize

OK, I have a JFrame whose dimensions had to be constrained on resize. Basically, it has to grow equally in width and height (think Checkerboard). In order to do that, I had to override the JFrame’s setBounds. However, I had … Continue reading

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IDEA hidden features…

If you are a long time user of IntelliJ IDEA, you already know why it’s great. If you are not, I’ll tell you the IDE just makes things easier. Aside from the community, and large number of quality plugins, it … Continue reading

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webwork2 and unchecked checkboxes…

your average Web-MVC framework does many things. It may simplify your life with some basic type-conversion. It may allow you to directly map an object’s method as a Web Action. However, even the best may gloss over an issue… at … Continue reading

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certified in spring…

Spring has definitely made my life easier. Not just on all of my side projects, but at work too. At this moment, I have all our domain objects and services wired and working via Spring-2.5. Mostly JPA, two JDBC Daos. … Continue reading

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bad developer…

I’m not sure if I’ve worked with this guy before, but I get the feeling he’s talking about me. I personally like doing items 1-10. Just kidding… or am I?

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resin-3.1 performance

Not too long ago I wondered (aloud), what the heck happened to Resin-3.0 performance. I found that after upgrading from resin-3.0.19 to resin-3.0.23, and deploying the expanded war, startup time went from 90 to 117 seconds. OK, so I was … Continue reading

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for the new year…

OK, so it’s not exactly a new year’s resolution, but close enough (I don’t make those, they’re useless). Here are a few things I want to learn and or finish in the new year. Finish my 2D, Sprite-scrolling, adventure game … Continue reading

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technology bubble…

On the Kimchy blog, I just saw this great youtube video on the current technology bubble. Poignant and funny – watch it.

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