Adam Jordens@littlesquare:~/

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 [...]

Summer is here.
Things have been pretty busy for the past month or so and as such I’ve decided to take a quick jaunt to Kelowna. Family and friends there so it’s a good opportunity to relax and unwind.
Although it looks like the west coast rain we got this week is going to be following me [...]

Being a long weekend, I had a couple hours yesterday to mess around with my Maven build in the hopes of integrating Groovy and ridding myself of a lot of Hibernate boilerplate (you know, all the annoying getters/setters).
I’m currently working on a Seam-based prototype and Groovy is certainly applicable to aspects other than Hibernate but [...]

For the past couple of days I’ve been attending the caBIG Annual Meeting (it’s the 5th such meeting and by all accounts the most well attended).
About caBIG

caBIG™ stands for the cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid™. caBIG™ is an information network enabling all constituencies in the cancer community – researchers, physicians, and patients – to share data [...]

We recently finished migrating our product from Java5 to Java6. The software migration itself went quite smoothly with only a couple unanticipated problems.
However we do have a number of developers on MacBook Pro’s (myself included) that began having problems with other Java-based applications after making Java6 their default JVM.
One such problem was with the popular [...]

For the past couple of weeks I’ve been doing a bit of early development work with Seam, it’s been fun but not without annoyance.
The project is green field which in one respect is quite nice because of the freedom it presents with regards to technology and architecture choices, but on the flip side you’ve actually [...]

I’m been sufficiently busy at work since getting back from San Francisco and haven’t had much opportunity to blog.
As part of the JavaOne experience, I’ve taken another look at Twitter and have been using it as a quasi micro-publishing platform. It’s somewhat entertaining and the barrier to tweet is sufficiently lower.
@ajordens
Nothing too exciting and I [...]

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