Dazed & Confused

JavaLobby has a good article on how to ease reading objects in the Eclipse debugger.

So it’s finally been published. I was wondering how they were planning on including all those names, but they’ve done an excellent job. PDF here.

Google suggests has gotten a great deal of attention lately. It really is a good product, but it is also a technically advanced product because it dynamically updates the results as you type (remember, this is a webpage). A dissection of the code can be found here.

There’s a wiki page and a recent blog on the dev. blog.
I ended up using captcha.

JavaWorld has a basic hands on tutorial for deploying applications with Apache Geronimo here.

Alright, I know it’s usual to prepare for christmas this time of year, but not for me. I’m looking forward to summer. Going to the Quart festival this summer. Tickets are ready, Green Day and Foo Fighters are playing, and t-shirts are in draft mode. Now listening to the new Green Day [...]

Excellent, I’ll might have to dive into this book.
Via Blaine Kendall.

No programmer can live without these skills.

Logging has been one of those things we havn’t tended to properly with our current project. I don’t use it much during development as I’m a debugger fan, but it will be increasingly important as we hit production, and need to diagnose errors after they occur. So I had to sit down and figure out [...]

Ah, this is beautiful. I’ve introduced captcha for comments. The spammers were driving me insane. I found this blog pointing me to a WordPress plugin. A little bit of hacking and voila it was up. Now I actually know that I have a valid comment when I get mail notification. Sweet.
Now I only [...]