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...

It was driving me nuts when I got my MacBook that I could not use the tab button to navigate across a form. Let alone forms, on a browser p...

Version 4 of the popular JUnit test framework has been available for use for quite some time (In fact, it is up to version 4.5). However, ...

I spent half a day cursing and spewing bile at JavaScript when after all was said and done, it was doing the right thing. The ignominy of i...

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...

The RailsConf has been getting a lot of press. So methinks let's see what the hullabaloo is all about. Q: What are the sessions going ...

I often find myself relying on the wisdom of crowds to guide my purchasing decision. How so? I go check out the customer reviews at Amazon ....

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...

I have been using Null Soft's product and frankly, I just don't get the NSI scripting language. It just seems too arcane and doesn...

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...