Adam Jordens@littlesquare:~/

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...