Logging Conversation Demarcation In Seam
One way to see where your conversations start and end is to use the Seam event model to observe the conversation start and ends. Just add this bean into your project and it will automatically log when you start and end conversations.
Continue Reading...Notes On Choosing A Web Framework
I’m looking at starting a new project and once again find myself choosing between frameworks. Having spent some time evaluating different ones I wrote up some notes to share and get some feedback that might alter my thoughts or opinions. Here’s the criteria I’m using to choose a framework in no particular order.
Continue Reading...Glass Button Tutorial – In Java
Create glass effect buttons using nothing but Java code and JTexGen, a procedural texture library for Java. First create a new project in your favorite IDE and add the JTextGen jar file, or create a new maven project and add the JTexgen dependency if you installed it from the source distribution into your local repository.
Continue Reading...New Blog Theme
Yes, I’ve done some decorating around here, well, actually I got the interior designers in as I didn’t write this theme. I have retired my own custom theme as I felt it wasn’t making the most of the features that WordPress has to offer such as widgets and plugins. This Carrington Framework Overview gives you […]
Continue Reading...Hosting Changes
I’ve recently changed hosting providers which so far has been a royal pain in the backside. My old provider EasyCGI were fine when I started a year ago. Last fall, they underwent some changes in their platform and since then, their service has been patchy. I’m not alone this opinion as plenty of their users […]
Continue Reading...John Hughes Dead at 59
Wow, makes you feel old when the people that you grew up on start making headlines this way. He wrote, directed and produced a number of movies that define my generation by never forgetting his adolescent experiences that are common to all of us and putting them on celluloid. He set many of his movies […]
Continue Reading...About Me
FYI, I just updated my about page with my (mostly antique computing related) biography. You can find it here </shameless promotion>
Continue Reading...JTexGen – Procedural Texture Library Released
Download Here I have finally found the time to finally release my library for creating procedural textures called JTexGen under the LGPL license. It is a framework for rendering and viewing procedural textures which you can then use as images, backgrounds and textures for modelling. Because the textures are procedural, you can ramp up the […]
Continue Reading...Seam vs Spring Web Flow – vs Wicket
In the fifth part of this four part series, I decided to give a non-conversational framework a try and implemented the same application with Wicket which is a semi-stateless framework. (update : If you have already read the previous version only chapter 5 is new and has the Wicket example and final comparison.) Enjoy, HTML […]
Continue Reading...Get your childhood geek on
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