Les Hazlewood
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This is an old post. I have long since moved on to Maven as described here
The JSecurity team had a recent discussion on whether or not to use Maven 2 or Ant+Ivy moving forward. At the end of the day, I didn’t really care that much about which system we used, but [...]
Groovy is by far my favorite scripting language, since it leverages and integrates with all the Java stuff I use (applications, tools, server software, etc). It is just as expressive and powerful as Ruby, Python, etc., but feels a little simpler or cleaner, depending on the comparison.
Here are two fantastic resources in the ‘Cookbook’ [...]
This post outlines how to re-create a subversion repository after a total failure or loss (disk overwritten, disk crash, accidentally deleted, etc) when you have no repository backups and only developers’ working copies. If you’ve lost your SVN server and have no backups of your repository, and you don’t want to do manual per-file copying [...]
So I was at work today, hammering away on the keyboard, when out of nowhere, as if coming through faint elevator speakers off in the distance, I heard Hiki’s first song on her latest Ultra Blue album, entitled “This is Love”.
I thought to myself, “Man, am I hearing things? What the hell? I [...]
Ok, I’m about to divulge to the world one of my little programming gems – something I’ve used on every single project for almost the last 4 years now. It is very easily translated to any other OO language as well, especially C# for the .NET/Hibernate.NET folks.
I haven’t been keeping it secret or anything, [...]
So, I just finished reading this blog post about Spring configuration advocating static getInstance() methods in some places in your code to reduce the amount of Spring xml config. Since I posted a reply on that blog, and the author would probably be inclined to moderate my entry and delete it because I directly [...]
Have you ever wanted to use caching in your Spring/Hibernate application beyond just supporting Hibernate’s 2nd-level cache?
If you know what a Hibernate 2nd-level cache is, you really know how huge its performance benefits are. Wouldn’t it be useful to utilize caching for other things in your application? Even if you don’t explicitly use a [...]
ThinWire is an amazing Rich Internet Application (RIA) framework that caters to Java developers. The concept is extremely similar to other frameworks out there such as the Google Web Toolkit (GWT), ZK, Echo2, wingS, Flex and some others. Lets just say that most people who use ThinWire and these [...]
After installing Intellij IDEA Selena (EAP release) Mac OS X .dmg, I found that I couldn’t edit the vm memory heap options like I used to on Linux. I inspected the /Applications/Selena-7027.app/bin/idea.sh file and saw that it looks for a file in that same directory called idea.vmoptions.
So, I created the file, added my vm [...]
When you install an application for the first time, many times you want ‘bootstrap’ data to exist before the application is used for the very first time. Here’s a simple but easy technique to get bootstrap data inserted into your application upon first startup.
Prior to the following approach, I used to have ‘default.data’ and [...]
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