Adam Jordens@littlesquare:~/

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...

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...

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...

In case you missed it Interface21, the company behind the popular Spring Framework, has re-branded itself and will henceforth be known as SpringSource. Same folks with a slightly less mysterious...

Branching and merging has always been one of the development gotchas regardless of the particular source control system. Take a typical scenario where you've found yourself working on a private branch that has forked off of a release branch which was...

More for personal interest than anything else but I've decided to re-write and open-source part of what I worked on for the last hack day. I've called it JDBCSpy and it's available over on Google Code.  It's worth noting that there are a couple of other...

I've been on vacation for the past week or so and took a couple hours to play around with Guice. Guice != Spring Framework. For those that don't know, Guice is a light-weight dependency injection framework. What separates it from a few other frameworks...

I was pretty keen on attending this years OSCON in Portland but it unfortunately didn't fit into the conference budget. It's never really a replacement for attending but a good majority of the presentations this year are now available (as PDFs) here. I...

It's almost been a year since JavaOne... you know the one with Marc Fluery up on stage in a red beret and the rest of the crew (notably Bill Burke) sporting the same goofy hat at one point or another. I bet it's been an interesting ride for Marc and it's...

I spent most of today debugging some performance problems we're having in our application. It's fun stuff, I really enjoy it. Lately it's been a lot of threading work with Swing which is a fairly interesting area to play in. It's amazing what kind of...