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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 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 [...]

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‘ (multimedia recording).

The Eclipse Memory Analyzer is a fast and feature-rich Java heap analyzer [...]

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 [...]

Today was our first hack day of 2008. I’ve been helping coordinate these events for the past year and a half and they’ve proven to be a solid source of inspiration and motivation for all participants.
Unfortunately for me, today was more or less a day of false starts. Like always, I had a number of [...]

So I’ve been working off and on over the past 6 months on a little side project, JDBCSpy. I’ve mentioned it previously so this post is just a little update.
It’s far from my day job and really just serves as a bit of an outlet. You’re free to argue about whether it’s a creative outlet [...]

A Google of One

It’s just another phase in the continued commoditization of infrastructure. It started a decade or two ago with the OS and has been followed in quick succession by the web and J2EE stacks.
While not free, cloud computing offerings by the likes of Amazon.com have definitely opened the realm of possibility to the [...]

I admitedly don’t have a lot of experience with the various AOP frameworks that have gained popularity over the past few years.
I happened to be looking at Javassist a couple weeks back and noticed that they were in the process of developing a lightweight AOP framework on top of it called GluonJ. It’s still in [...]

A friend just pointed out a post over on Wired Science that talks a bit more about Google’s (previously) announced plans to begin providing infrastructure to enable scientists to more easily share and collaborate on large volumes of data.
It’ll be interesting to see where this goes. Giving scientists access to large volumes of data is [...]

The other night I sat down and spent some time playing around with Hadoop.
What follows here is based on my brief understanding of the project and one nights worth of experience
Hadoop is an Apache Lucene project that provides an open-source implementation of MapReduce. MapReduce is a programming model emphasizing parallel processing that has [...]