Wednesday, April 16, 2008
I have to admit, I was very impressed with Ryan Breidenbach’s Spring JavaConfig talk tonight at the Spring Dallas User Group. I don’t hide the fact that I’m a big fan of xml configuration, and very much against annotation-driven config. However, I don’t think I have a problem with doing my bean wiring in Java. [...]
I have volunteered to give a talk on Java FX. Why? Hmm… Let me explain…
There is this great new Java user group that started here in Dallas back in January 2008. You can read the background on the group via these email announcements…
Sidenote:
Derek, if you’re listening, it sure would be nice [...]
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Who likes Spring MVC out there? Are you using annotation-driven Spring MVC with the 2.5 features? To me all the @RequestMapping annotations just make controller code harder to read. Call me crazy, but I’m out on annotations for doing my Spring configuration. I greatly prefer configuring my beans in common xml [...]
Thursday, January 17, 2008
I’m looking for a notepad replacement for my new Vista laptop. I’ve used them all. I’m wondering what others like and why. Please provide feedback.
The notepad replacements I’ve used are:
notepad++
notepad2
metapad
I’m normally very opinionated about things. The fact that I haven’t picked one simple text editor and “claimed” it [...]
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
ONE BILLION DOLLARS (obviously, that must be read in a Dr. Evil voice)…. Sun just paid $1,000,000,000 for MySQL. WTF!?!? Did Sun not realize that MySQL is a free friggin’ product???? The top-level execs at Sun should be fired immediately! Paying one Billion Dollars for something you will give away [...]
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Nope, you aren’t getting one here. I’ve argued Ant over Maven dozens of times in my life. Most recently, last night. But, I’m not gonna start the argument again.
That said, my friend Pete has a post on his blog trying to pull me offsides again. He was the cause, last [...]
I’m considering buying an iPhone. To those of you out there that have one…. are you happy with it? What do you like about it? What do you dislike? Do you use a case with your iPhone or do you just stick it in your pocket (supposedly the thing can’t be scratched)?
Most importantly, is there [...]
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Monday, December 10, 2007
I’ll be heading to The Spring Experience tomorrow morning. I’m very excited for many reasons. One that can’t be understated, is the weather and location of TSE, Hollywood, Florida! It’s cold and wet here in Dallas this week (30s - 50s, with rain all week).
Attending this year’s TSE will make me 3 [...]
Thursday, November 15, 2007
If you saw my post yesterday, you saw that my Ubuntu running laptop was in bad shape. My swap file was jacked-up. With the help from a friend and the Ubuntu forums I’m all fixed. Thanks…
The problem appears to be a bug in the Ubuntu upgrade process. My /etc/fstab file got [...]
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
I’m afraid I jacked-up my swap space. Here is the output from a top:
top - 16:48:20 up 3:08, 3 users, load average: 0.24, 0.44, 0.69
Tasks: 131 total, 2 running, 129 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 9.6%us, 2.6%sy, 2.8%ni, 82.9%id, 1.8%wa, [...]