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RefCardz!

Thu, 17 May 2012 20:50:00 GMT

Free reference cards on technologies in case you're interested - enjoy :)

http://refcardz.dzone.com/

Some useful free books

Wed, 16 May 2012 23:14:42 GMT

Some free resources for source control & build management tools that I use regularly:

Git http://progit.org/
SVN http://svnbook.red-bean.com/
CVS ( for posterity :) http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/

I'll be posting other resources here too.

Spring injection with @Resource, @Autowired and @Inject

Fri, 04 May 2012 18:29:00 GMT

I've always wondered what the differences were and someone has gone through a TDD explanation - nice! :)

http://blogs.sourceallies.com/2011/08/spring-injection-with-resource-and-autowired/

Incidently, using the @Resource + mappedName attribute is a nice shortcut to map to JNDI properties.

http://radio-weblogs.com/0135826/2006/04/06.html#a198

Eclipse Word Wrap plugin

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:52:00 GMT

yay - word wrap in eclipse editors! :)

http://ahtik.com/blog/projects/eclipse-word-wrap/

Python

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 20:24:00 GMT

Someone recently asked me for some advice on resources for Python so I thought I'd write up a list :)

http://www.python.org/ - the obvious source
http://www.jython.org/ - python implemented on top of the JVM giving you the best of both worlds
http://www.diveintopython.net/ - an excellent free book for programmers who know other languages already

And here's what I use to write code in python:

good ol http://www.vim.org/ and the command line :)
http://pydev.org/ - eclipse based
IDLE which comes in the download
http://www.activestate.com/komodo-ide

happy python'ing =)

Nifty Toys for Windows

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 18:41:00 GMT

A couple of freeware or cheap high productivity tools if you're stuck in windows =)

Launchy - launch any application with a keystroke
BBLean - replace the boring shell with a port of blackbox from *nix
Lookout - fast search in outlook
Servant Salamander - powerful 2 pane file manager
Winmerge - merge and diff tool
Kitty - replacement for putty
Vim or Textpad for basic file editing

There's probably others that I use which I can't remember off the top of my head but these are my favorites.

Boys and their Toys

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 19:57:00 GMT

mmmmmmmm ...

http://store.cstick.com/

there's a motorcycle show happening up north this weekend too:

http://www.euromoto2012.com/

CSI Java Edition – Locating & Terminating Memory Leaks

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 09:24:00 GMT

We discovered an intersting bug in JAX-WS at work the other day so I blogged about it over at our company's blog. It makes for some fun stuff at work sometimes rather than the mundane day-to-day stuff :)

History of the World in 6 Glasses

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:02:00 GMT

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 :)

http://tomstandage.wordpress.com/books/a-history-of-the-world-in-six-glasses/

Inventing on Principle

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 07:59:00 GMT

Saw this talk which was forwarded on STS .. simply brilliant! Make sure you watch till the end- it's not all about programming.

http://vimeo.com/36579366

OneJar To Rule them all

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:49:00 GMT

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 from backend DBs and output a file with some data.

Then I ran into a problem when I wanted to package it all up as a jar file which could be run directly from the command line via cron. The tricky part is in packaging up all the jars that are included as part of spring, mybatis, etc. and be able to run them in a way that they are all available on the classpath without munging each other.

Well, OneJar to the rescue! Everything packaged up all nice and neat. Just run 'mvn package' to get the jar and then use the usual 'java -jar app.jar' to run it. Works like a charm. Even has a Maven plugin to minimize the work needed to get it up and running.

Sneaky Sound System

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:48:00 GMT

Somedays just feel like ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_8MMDBXh4k

enjoy!

Snowmageddon it - Day 2

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:35:00 GMT

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!

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 08:01:00 GMT

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 how much gets dumped tomorrow. As Def Leppard would say 'Snowmageddon it!'

Continuous Delivery

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 06:53:00 GMT

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 enables deployments anytime.

Dynacron has a free seminar if you're interested in learning more:

http://www.dynacrongroup.com/2012/01/seminar-292012-introduction-to-continuous-delivery/

SOPA + PIPA == DOA?!

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 07:32:00 GMT

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/01/how-pipa-and-sopa-violate-white-house-principles-supporting-free-speech

Here's the facts on them:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/248298/sopa_and_pipa_just_the_facts.html

TeamCity Eclipse plug-in and remote runs

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 22:14:00 GMT

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 functionality!

http://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/features/continuous_integration.html

That's why I love her!

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:12:00 GMT

Happy 2012!

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 08:49:00 GMT

Happy New Year!!!

I hope the new year brings you lots of joy & happiness! 2011 certainly brought us a lovely bundle of joy =)

JavaZone X : The Streaming

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 01:36:00 GMT

awesome geeky video! :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U1_KW6ww7Y