Adam Jordens@littlesquare:~/

Background The company I work for made the decision to OEM a product from a partner, rather than invest valuable development time to build something that has essentially been commoditized. Development resources are at a premium and we consciously...

The team and I have recently kicked off a rather ambitious project.  In an attempt to help accelerate the early development activities, we’ve made a decision to build a series of one-off implementations using the DeveloperForce.com platform...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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 at JavaOne 2008 titled 'Automated Heap Dump Analysis for Developers, Testers, and Support Employees'...

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...