Technophilia

Martin Odersky, Lex Spoon, and Bill Venners have collaborated to venture where everyone has gone before. Yes, I mean the age old story abo...

Goes to show you, that you can teach an old dog new tricks. After years of using Eclipse I stumbled across a feature I am sure has existed...

One of the things I have admired about the Spring framework is its helpful error messages. Yeah, of all the things I could point to, I pic...

After getting all giddy about the ease of running Hudson (java -jar Hudson.war), I ran into rough weather pretty quickly. The main problem...

Setting up my unit tests with reliable fixtures is turning out to be quite a headache. Sparing you arcane application-speak let me use the c...

I have been a longtime user of Bloglines. Sometime last year when Google introduced the Google Reader (GR) I took a looksee and was severely...

I have been attempting to work with JBoss Rules (nee Drools) and have mostly met with frustration. With the acquisition by JBoss, the Drools...

A colleague of mine upon hearing of the Spring experience, said "what a boondoggle". That captured exactly how I felt about it. No...

Maven's multiproject plug-in is a very useful tool on a large project that's been organized into several sub-projects. Using the dep...

I just spent the last three days at my third NoFluffJustStuff conference -- the Research Triangle Software Symposium . My brain is full and...

Web Logic's config.xml is the center of WL universe. This is what WL uses to keep track of all servers, deployments, services etc and is...

How does one get around the usage of Struts tokens when unit testing using StrutsTestCase ? If the action class under tests for duplicate s...

One of things a clusterable application server (for example, Web Logic) does for an application is to broadcast objects placed in the user...

[Updated: See end of posting] Recently, we came across some critical problems with our Jira installation. When we couldn't figure out...

The following is a reminder to those working on implementing checkboxes on their pages. It is essential that you implement the ActionFor...

Craig McClanahan, the creator of Struts and one of the leaders in the JSF 1.0 spec sees a world where JSF is a souped up presentation layer ...

Found an interesting feature matrix comparing various CI tools. Aside: I got to this point from some article referring to Damage Control...

Dion Almaer writes about the growing interest in aspect oriented programming. There are, however, several hurdles to large scale adoption ...

With Nic Wolff's nifty script you can now manage the passwords for all the countless sites that need one without having to remember cou...

You can now get feedback for your CruiseControl builds right on your Windows' system tray. Checkout pragmatic automation for instruct...