Adam Jordens@littlesquare:~/

I've been using the latest del.icio.us plugin for awhile with Firefox 2.x and have been quite impressed. Although my experiences have been largely positive I did have to start with a new account b/c my previous one suffered from poor tag choices (and...

I had a few days off from work over the holidays and decided to do a bit of an investigation into Gavin King's new web framework, Seam. My recent background has predominantly been in the J2EE space (Spring + Hibernate 3.0/3.2) but fronted with a thick...

A year or so back I experimented with TiddlyWiki but didn't really get beyond that. I've since taken it up again as an attempt to become better organized. We use Confluence at work and I've experiemented with having a personal space where I can record...

I just caught an announcement that Compass 0.9 was released. Not knowing what Compass actually was, I ventured over to the OpenSympony site. Compass is a first class open source Java Search Engine Framework, enabling the power of Search Engine semantics...

I blogged a few days ago about an exception that was cropping up when doing a Desktop.open() on OS X. Tonight I hacked out a simple solution. Instead of Desktop.open(file); I do: if (OSUtils.isMacintosh()) { Runtime.getRuntime().exec("open",...

Refactoring tools are fantastic. I am an IDEA fan, and I think their refactoring support is second to none. However, as great as it all seems, I think that refactoring tools can be overrated compared to other important factors. For example, I was...

I'm in Seattle for the week at an ISB proteomics training course. I'm having a hard enough time just keeping up to date reading my blogroll so I won't be posting much this week. What I do write about the course will reside over at myProteome. Staying...

The folks at SourceLabs have released Swik, the free and open database of Open Source projects that anyone can edit. It's sort of a SourceForge/Freshmeat meets Delicious meets [enter your search engine here]. It has a wiki aspect for allow users to...

Well, I haven't quite kicked my desire to play more with ruby so I'm planning a little side project using the Odeum bindings. It's too late to start tonight but I'll try to crank something out tomorrow after work. Ruby/Odeum is a binding to the...

Well tonight I finished hacking together my first attempt at a Ruby on Rails-based application. Basically what I built was a clone of the *wars (ala kittenwars) site where you put images head to head and allow the viewer to vote. Not to be shy about...