Category Archives: Technical stuff

leading by example…

I tend admire people who do more walking than talking. In essence, they lead by example. Listening to the Java Posse, I learned of a Landon Fuller. Winner of their Java Posse Award. Landon is a high school drop-put, who … Continue reading

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DroidDraw…

I was reading a Coder CPF_ post about a new beta Android applet: DroidDraw. I gave it a whirl, and it’s not bad.

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agile gets it…

Agreed, Agile development only leads to complaining. 😉

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android says, “hello world”…

The Android SDK has been released. Based on the youtube demos, API and architecture, it seems this may be my alternative to J2ME. One of my major concerns with the openness of Android, was security. On this platform, what is … Continue reading

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Trolling with Java Web Frameworks

Nice Trolling with Java Web Frameworks post on Fred Daoud’s Weblog. It takes a moment to get into, but by the end you should be laughing quite a bit.

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good article(s)…

Eoin Woods (an enterprise architect for UBS Investment Bank) wrote a solid 2-part article basically describing how to avoid some common architectural pitfalls. Here’s Part 1 and Part 2. Worth reading.

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searching hibernate…

Hibernate Search (Search) is well-documented, with a clean and easy to use API. The first line in its architectural overview states that it “…consists of an indexing and an index search engine. Both are backed by Apache Lucene.” It’s really … Continue reading

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natural progression…

OK, for the most part, if your application (commercial or otherwise) has a small, let’s say trivial amount of data. Simply retrieving as few hundred records and displaying them shouldn’t be too IO intensive. but with natural progression, some trivial … Continue reading

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you want acegi on that wall, you need acegi on that wall…

Just a little under 2 years ago, I became more aware of security as an important part of implementing a complete system. I know that many simply rely on the role based ACL-paradigm of the Sun Servlet spec. they’re using. … Continue reading

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Toolman 0.2

So I was looking for something related to JavaScript in the WebWork documentation. That’s not really important. Somehow, a section on some of the opensource JavaScript technologies caught my attention: Tool-man examples. I’ve been wondering how I would add drag … Continue reading

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