History of the World in 6 Glasses My buddy Will Iverson had recommended this book to me a while back and I really enjoyed reading it. Each chapter goes best with your favorite drink, ideally the one that the chapter is talking about :) ...
Inventing on Principle Saw this talk which was forwarded on STS .. simple brilliant! Make sure you watch till the end- it's not all about programming. http://vimeo.com/365...
OneJar To Rule them all I've been working on a command line java app at work which is part of a cron based batch process which updates some data between systems. Using maven, spring and mybatis means that I had the framework up and running within a couple of hours to pull data ...
Snowmageddon it - Day 2 Looks like a couple more inches fell last night. We're upto almost a foot now methinks. Here's a couple of snapshots. Time to stay indoors, drink hot drinks and prep for that major software release tomorrow :)
Snowmageddon it! Day 1 of the snowmageddon. Around 8" so far outside with more expected tomorrow. Supposed to be as bad as '96 - I remember snow drifts as tall as the house back then when we lived further up north :) This is what the yard looks like so far. Let's see ...
Continuous Delivery We practice Continous Delivery at Dynacron. That's the main reason why we've been able to push out a lot of new functionality for the last few months at a major local healthcare customer at a steady clip via a fairly automated deployment process which ...
TeamCity Eclipse plug-in and remote runs We've been using TeamCity at work for a while now and it's working out as well as Hudson, etc. It has some really nifty integration features available via an eclipse plugin ( netbeans, idea, etc are also supported I believe). Love the remote run ...
back to the regularly scheduled programming … boy the last few months have been a blur! baby + work == no time for other things. It's been a very busy & productive year so far. Gonna try to find the time to post random things on here. Speaking of which, read a really cool book recently - Rogue ...
Excellent article on memory leaks Read an excellent article on memory leaks in Java. Yes Toto, Javacanhave memory leaks even though it hasGC. http://blog.dynatrac...
Jython, SSH etc etc I am doing some automation stuff these days. This involves remotely interacting with servers viaSSH. Ideally I would like to automate some of the processes so I was looking around for ways of doing that withPythonor Java. First I looked into Python which ...
Change mysql root password fyi, in case you need to change the root password for your mysql database ( such as when you get a dump of test data for example): http://www.cyberciti...
Widgetbox I have to make a special mention of this neat little tool calledWidgetbox. It lets you easily create redistributable widgets for lots of custom sites like facebook, igoogle, etc apart from plain old HTML/flash widgets. I am leveraging it to send folks who ...