Adam Jordens@littlesquare:~/

We've recently gone through a migration from 1.4.2 to 5.0. I haven't really had the opportunity to experiment with aspects much beyond the transaction management aspects provided by the Spring framework. That being said, there were a couple interesting...

Customers with Island Internet may not be able to access their e-mail or any other web-based services provided to them by the company. On Monday, the company's Nanaimo office was locked and no one, including owner and general manager Karen Addison, was...

Joi just sent me a link to a CNET News article about our WoW (World of Warcraft, yes... that mmorpg) guild. Power Lunching with Wizards and Warriors The world of online gaming is interesting in that it attracts a very diverse set of individuals. Not...

My gmail inbox has admitingly gotten a bit out of hand. I've got 1200+ (mostly) unfiltered messages sitting in my inbox. I'd love to start filtering them, and in fact I have, but there doesn't seem to be a mechanism in place to run a newly created...

I blogged a few days ago about an exception that was cropping up when doing a Desktop.open() on OS X. Tonight I hacked out a simple solution. Instead of Desktop.open(file); I do: if (OSUtils.isMacintosh()) { Runtime.getRuntime().exec("open",...

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For some reason chucknorrisfacts.com has been spreading like wildfire throughout the office.  After dealing with some Hibernate lameness today, I thought I'd add a new fact.  If Chuck Norris were to re-write Hibernate, he'd have it done yesterday...