Last night the Spring Dallas User Group was lucky enough to convince Keith Donald to fly up and talk to us about the Spring Web products (Spring MVC, Spring Web Flow, Spring JavaScript, and Spring Faces). A large chunk of Keith’s talk was on annotation-based Spring MVC along with the Spring JavaScript product. Both looked [...]
I wanted to title this “The only smart thing DHH has ever said”, but that wouldn’t be fair. I just normally tune out when I see/read his rants about the greatness about Ruby/Rails. However, a recent post of his caught my eyes and sucked me in. DHH makes the claim that it’s better to hire [...]
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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 if [...]
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 files that are easy [...]
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 bothers me. [...]
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 for free! Good luck making [...]
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 night over a few [...]
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 [...]
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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 for 3! [...]