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Good talk from Emmanuel Bernard and Max Ross on the subject over at InfoQ. Both Hibernate Core and Shards are covered, as well as Hibernate Search.
Particularly interesting for me was his overview of the different mechanisms by which you can support multiple customer schemas securely and with decent performance. The product I’m actively working on [...]
I’m happy to say that after a good 3 or 4 years of using Exchange for all our corporate email/calendaring, there is light at the end of the tunnel.
I got an invitation today to join our pilot project on Google Apps for Enterprise. Awesome, right!?
Is it bad than I’m looking forward to the opportunity to [...]
I spent a few hours tonight trying to diagnose a problem we were running into tonight with some web application code.
That was on top of the better part of a day that was spent by another developer digging into the code.
Development ain’t easy, and frameworks for all their glory strive to make the easy stuff [...]
Interesting little article over on InfoQ talking about Alan Cooper’s book About Face.
Few key points:
Design for Intermediates Users
Use Tools that Help Beginners to Become Intermediates
Less is More
Design for the Probable, Provide for the Possible
Eliminate Errors or Confirmation Dialogs
There’s an interesting closing comment discussing the need (or lack there of) for error or confirmation dialogs.
“Cooper [...]
Glenn, if you’re reading this, we’re doing it again.
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About 4 years ago, some friends and I decided to venture down to the neighborhood rib house for some an all-you-can-eat rib spectacle.
It’s taken us awhile (years really, some even had to leave the country) to recover, but this time we’ll be 29 co-workers strong.
The [...]
There is a great article with David Kelley, the founder of Ideo, one of the most important design firms in the world, on the Fast Company site. The article touches a bit about Kelley’s life and his battle with cancer, but the article focuses on Kelley’s idea of “Design Thinking”. Designing experiences rather than objects. [...]
I’ve been knee deep in the Java world for a long time doing a combination of desktop, backend J2EE (spring/hibernate) and most recently Seam-based web application development.
It’s the Christmas break and I’ve taken a bit of time to create an Ubuntu VM with Rails 2.2 installed in it. Rails has come a long ways since [...]
It’s been a busy couple of months. For those that don’t know, my role has shifted slightly from being focused on the technical aspects of an existing product to leading a few seasoned developers in their efforts on an entirely new suite of products. It’s an interesting challenge to do green-field development again, particularly in [...]
I was playing around with ANTLR today and was at bit overwhelmed at both the detail and lack of detail in various documentation and resources I was able to find. Plenty of grammar examples kicking around but some more recent tutorials that used ANTLR v3 would have been helpful.
The problem I’m trying to solve is [...]
I was doing some reading and came across Unitils (1.1 was just released).
Unitils is an open source library aimed at making unit testing easy and maintainable. Unitils builds further on existing libraries like DBUnit and EasyMock and integrates with JUnit and TestNG .
Unitils provides general asserion utilities, support for database testing, support for testing with [...]
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Win7, nice to meet you. I hate to admit it but I’ve been running Vista on a desktop machine at home for the better part of the past 8 months. It has not been ...
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Windows Live Writer isn’t bad Until recently, the bulk of my writing was done on a Mac using Ecto. I was looking for a suitable publishing tool for Windows and was directed towards ...
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Pet Peeve: Don’t email my password to me in plain text You know the drill.
Signup for some random service on the internet
Receive a confirmation email with your account information
or
Forget a password for some random service ...
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Eclipise Memory Analyzer (MAT) I must say the Eclipse Memory Analyzer looks pretty slick. There is some pretty good material over on the developers blog. Lastly, there was a talk on it ...
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Open-source Web-based Code Review Tool: Rietveld Guido van Rossum, of Python fame, has recently released a Django-based application that enables web-based code reviews... Rietveld.
It supports any language and currently can hook into Subversion repositories. You ...
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