Busy Times
Things have been very busy recently as Fall/Autumn usually is. October is the month of Birthdays, Halloween, visiting relatives and plenty of leaf clearing. November was the same except it had Thanksgiving and a bad cold and a trip to the Emergency Room thrown in for good measure. Also, I’ve been trying to complete my […]
Continue Reading...Recursive Media
Wonder if they will make a video game out of the new Max Payne movie?
Continue Reading...Java Standards Redux – Spring Licensing Fallout
In this post I talked about how the Java standards are important to ensuring java has a long and fruitful life. This post references Spring as an example but was written before the fallout from the Spring licensing issues. This fallout tends to back up the argument that standards are important, although since there were […]
Continue Reading...Codeless Ajax Ordered and Paginated Tables in Seam
(Update : fixed some of the missing images) One common code pattern that we find ourselves writing time and again is the ability to display tables which are paginated and sortable. Ideally, this is something we should try and be able to re-use throughout our application. Current Situation Let’s start by looking at where we […]
Continue Reading...Using Session Scoped Entities Locally in Seam
One of the problems faced by Seam users is the disconnect between the session scoped entity instances and using them in more local scopes. A good example is a session scoped User instance that is loaded when the user logs in and is outjected into the session scope. This user instance is available for the […]
Continue Reading...Why Java should focus on the standards
(Note : This post was written before the fallout over the Spring licensing issues which does reflect on the content of the post. However, I didn’t want to get drawn into that issue too much and dilute the point of this article. I have added some additional thoughts here) In general, there are advantages to […]
Continue Reading...Pixar graphics papers
A great source of computer graphics papers can be found here from the experts at Pixar, the folks behind great movies such as FInding Nemo, Cars, and the recent WALL?E. For those that don’t know, Pixar is also responsible for creating the 3D software PhotoRealistic Renderman (PRMan) that is used to create their movies as […]
Continue Reading...The Economics of Pizza
Like most people I enjoy Pizza, especially when I order in rather than making my own, and like most people I consult the stack of coupons that arrive in the mail daily. Personally, I live in an area where there are no really good pizza places to capture my loyalty, so price becomes the deciding […]
Continue Reading...European experiment could destroy planet
Which planet? Earth that is. In Europe there is an ongoing court bid to halt turning on CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. The collider is the worlds largest particle accelerator running underground at the Franco-Swiss border in Geneva with a circumference of 17 miles. The concern is that when used, the collider will generate black holes […]
Continue Reading...Is Spring between the devil and the EJB?
Reading this post on Javalobby prompted me to go and dust off a post I wrote a while ago but hadn?t published regarding Spring and the revitalized EJB standard. At the time I was fired up by this post by Rod Johnson which seemed to be a large helping of FUD and insults. Nonsense such […]
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