Adam Jordens@littlesquare:~/

We’ve used FishEye to better understand our source code repositories for some time now.
Cenqua (the Austrailians behind Fisheye) were exhibiting at last years JavaOne. I mentioned that we actually paid for FishEye (they gave the impression that most people eval’d continouslly) and they were quick to explain their new product and offer entry [...]

We’ve started a book club of sorts at work.
Second book on the ticket (I skipped the first) is The Search by John Battelle. Amazon gives it a decent review and I’ve heard of it before but never actually read it. Should be a quick read.
The idea of a company-sponsored book club is interesting.
It sounds [...]

Why do people succeed? Because they’re smart? Or lucky? How about: Neither. Inspired by a chance encounter with a high school student who asked him how to become a success, St. John interviewed more than 500 successful people, then distilled what they told him into eight simple principles.
See Richard’s 4 minute talk at the [...]

Interesting quote from a recent interview w/ bug fixer Brian Harry.

The quote itself is actually attributed to James Gosling but I like and can appreciate what Brian has added to it.

“The place where you find bugs may not be the right place to put a fix in.”

Simple example of this: Damn, I’m getting a [...]

As mentioned previously, we had a little problem at work with a certificate that prompted us to un-sign and re-sign a significant number of jars.
We didn’t have ant available in all production deployments so my co-workers ant macro was unfortunately not appropriate. If you’re in a situation where ant is available, do check it [...]

Funny thing happened at work the other day, turns out the Personal Email Certificate we were using to enable SSL communication between client and server expired.
Not a good thing to have happen when you have customers across North America and Europe that are no longer able to run your application.
Fortunately for us, we were able [...]

We’re looking for a build master to help us improve our existing continous integration process amongst other things. I’ve included the job description below. If you’re interested (The position is in sunny Victoria, BC), contact me at adam-NO-@-SPAM-genologics.com or leave a comment on this post.
Position Profile
GenoLogics is looking for a Build Master to [...]

I’ve spent a bit of time lately working with the Facebook API.
As part of learning the API, I was going to write a utility that would synchronize my Twitter status with my Facebook status. No brainer. Vice-versa would be nice as well but Facebook’s API is primarily read-only.
It really was, the only kicker was Facebook’s [...]