Author Archives: Jay

Getting ‘er done?

In the past months, I’ve dropped the amount of side-projects I do apart from my 40hr. This weekend however, I decided to put some real effort into a project I’ve been waving off for about 6+ months. So, Saturday morning … Continue reading

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Wikipedia, you’re the greatest…

So I was bored at the workplace, and decided to lookup the definition of boredom on wikipedia.org. It was pretty insightful. Then I thought to myself, Wikipedia is arguably the greatest Web 2.0 application ever invented. I’m sure some would … Continue reading

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People are simply people…

So I finally watched the film, Blood Diamond. Outstanding performances by Djimon Hounsou and Leo Decaprio. While watching this film, I heard a variation on an idea that I’ve debated and struggled with for years. It came during a brief … Continue reading

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Programmer Personality Test

I took Doolwind’s Programmer Personality Test, and got a DHSB. It was explained it as follows: You’re a Doer. You are very quick at getting tasks done. You believe the outcome is the most important part of a task and … Continue reading

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Getting the right manifest classpath

If you use Apache’s Ant to create archives (jars or wars), you most likely include a manifest(.mf). Well in the past when I’ve needed to note the dependencies on other jars, I’ve would have to come up with some rubbish … Continue reading

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Resin, what happened?

I’ve been a loyal Resin user for about 3 years now. For a time, it was one of the fastest servlet containers. Well, I have an web-app, made up of 3 wars. It uses a number of open-source, 3rd party … Continue reading

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Re-attachment

If you use Hibernate and Spring, but no JTA or Seam, and you have to subscribe to the session-per-request-with-detached-objects model, you may have run into the following situation: having to reattaching detached objects to the current open Hibernate session. Even … Continue reading

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just like a mini-mall…

I saw this months ago, and sent it in an email to a few people. When I last checked it had 960,020 views. It’s basically the best commercial ever! Well, I saw a reference to it on SNL last night, … Continue reading

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Echoes

Some guy (Jason) takes digital pictures of stuff (Rochester, NY). Vote for his work here. Note: You’ll have to sign up.

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Cash to Kermit

Johnny Cash’s last video before he and his wife passed on was to the song Hurt. It was excellent. Here’s a rendition of that video with Kermit the Frog. Enjoy.

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