Waterfall 2006 : International Conference on Sequential Development

One of our customers (a mac user) has recently reported an issue that appears to stem from somewhere in execution trace of a JDIC/native Desktop call. The issue we’re having is exactly similar to this thread in the JDIC forum which unfortunately hasn’t been answered. Our code is doing the following: try { Desktop.open(localFile); } ...

But I cheated. Work has been extremely busy the past few months and I haven’t had much time to anything, let alone read blogs. I’ve steadily watched my unread count rise to 1000,2000,3000,4000 and finally 5k unread posts.  I’ve periodically knocked it back a bit but haven’t been able to put a substantial dent into ...

What do you do when (heaven forbid) you have an over abundance of wildlife in a state? Why, you lower the legal hunting age! I guess all the 12 year olds in Wisconsin had younger brothers with itch trigger fingers that just couldn’t wait to get out into the woods. Well they now can, the ...

Finally got around to migrating from 1.5 to 2.0. No major hurdles, and the upgrade process was fairly seemless. I’m toying around with a different theme for the time being but may go back to the Kubrick-derivative I was using back in 1.5.x.  Came across a nifty DHTML flickr badge that you see situated in ...

I blogged a month or so back about failing in an attempt to buy a La-Z boy recliner and a new television. Well things changed a few weeks back with a fortunate call from the local La-Z dealer saying that they found a chair similar to what I was looking at earlier and I wouldn’t ...

Saw this on Slashdot originally, but the Washington Post is reporting that its taking Microsoft 25% longer (now ~135 days) to get critical patches out the door. This number falls to ~45 (from 71 days in 2003 and 55 days in 2004) when dealing with fully disclosed issues. The company also seems to have done ...

This has been written about by others but I’m going to comment on it as I did run into it tonight. I’ll start by saying that I sit on the fence with regards to the use of autoboxing in java5. Normally I think it’s alright but I did run into a situation this evening where ...

As I commented in an earlier post, we’ve been transitioning our legacy EJB-based system to a new platform built largely on Spring and leverging hibernate for persistence. The technology has worked well, I’ve seen improvements by way of code reduction and ease of implementation in certain areas. Instead of 500 remote methods exposed via 30-odd ...