Archive for the ‘java’ Category

try not to hardcode log4j configurations

Sunday, September 2nd, 2007

Around work, I've seen applications where there are several log4j configurations checked in along side each other(dev, test, prod).  Often, the only differences are location of where the log files go.  A better solution would not require, .war files to be re-built in order to only change log file destinations.  Log4J will interpret variables given to ...

Example of the crap people try to sell for windows

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

WebDrivehttp://www.southrivertech.com/purchase/wdpricing.htmlFor 59.95, you too can have a copy of "webdrive" that allows you to map drive letters to sftp(ftp over ssh).That kind of stuff has been built into linux for years. sftp is one of the many kio slaves built into konqueror.I can't believe people pay for this kind ...

Gimp vs Photoshop

Monday, May 14th, 2007

Can photoshop to this.Anyway, thought that was kind of funny.

Racing games cause bad/risky drivers

Monday, March 19th, 2007

according to this cnn article.video games can influence the behavior of some players. I am not saying the reports are wrong, just curious if the people doing these reports ever take a step back and think. Perhaps some people interested in play racing games are already "spicey" drivers ...

Anyone using dual widescreen dvi monitors shared with a kvm switch?

Monday, January 15th, 2007

Trying to decided between a single 24/26 inch monitor or two 20/22 inch wide screen monitors. However, which every solution I choose. I would like to be able to toggle it between 2 computers.  Also, 2 22 inch monitors can be found cheaper than many 24 inch monitors ...

beagle-helper must die

Thursday, December 28th, 2006

Beagle helper keeps spawning behind the scenes and taking up 100%cpu cycle on my ubuntu box.  re:http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1660226Last night someone cut the wires to our deer again.  Thinking I would catch them this time with our wireless camera, I was duped, beagle may have something to do with it. There are ...

Wicket, whatever happened to separation of concerns?

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

Webwork/Struts 2.0 has still has a nice pojo feel to it. Actions don't look specific to running in a webapp. The Java code is concerned with a buisness process, not a bunch of code to entertain the UIStripes has no separation of view destinations. e.gactions end with....return new ...

Tapestry 5 getting a little better.

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

http://howardlewisship.com/screencasts/tap5-classreload-oct2006/tap5-classreload-oct2006.htmlIt gets the simple web.xml (with just the listener. Aka webwork 2.2),  dynamic class reloading (aka workwork 2.2), and templates closer to velocity.  Good stuff, just a year behind many other frameworks.

Can Stripes do this?

Thursday, September 14th, 2006

This is a continuation of the previous blog entry in response to Tims blog about the lack of value in having a layer between actions and their results. Without writing more java code, have a generic action that can be re-used all over the place?http://sutternow.com/space/Can+Stripes+do+this%3FIn ...

Not sold on Stripes.

Wednesday, September 13th, 2006

The actions look pretty much like webwork which is good. However, it appears like a step backwords. On the surface you may be able to get your feet wet a little quicker. However, without the configuration in place actions are tied to their view output. 1:1 ...