Dazed & Confused

Havn’t tested this myself, but it seems incredibly easy and adds that little extra to your layout. Check out CurvyCorners.

Alright, new theme. The old one got a bit boring and messy. I’ve put up the k2 theme, which seems to be easy enough to customize. I’ll be adding my own flavour later on.

Alright, this is a technology blog, and I try not to be political, my friends get to hear that stuff.
But I have to say I feel incredibly lucky to be living in Norway. The Sunday Times has an article about the problem with Norways wealth and calls it the Saudi Arabia of the [...]

Looking into Fitnesse. There’s some good advice on usage here.

Dean Wampler explains here.
I have no faith in using tools for drawing and generating code. It sounds nice, I just don’t think it’s a good solution for most systems. A friend of mine has been working with MDA for a while, and he claims it works ok for boilerplate basic webapplications with a few forms [...]

I have always been quite impressed with the Spring framework and its code. It’s not always the easiest thing to navigate (very deep hierarchies and some fairly advanced java concepts), but it’s always consistent, documented and well written. The deep hierarchies can be a pain to follow, but it is also what makes Spring extensible [...]

We’re doing Scrum these days, and as I have little experience with the whole process so far I’m always looking for stuff to read up on. Martin Fowler has a good article about patterns for good stand up meetings here.

Johannes Brodwall has a good article over at java.net on implementing lazy loading. Of course most ORM tools implement this already, and you would probably use them instead. But the article gives good background for the mechanisms present in current ORM solutions. And as Johannes points out; sometimes you might just have to implement some [...]

Adobe has finally released a beta of Lightroom for Windows. I’ll have to check it out when I get back home. My current workflow leaves much to be desired so I’m hoping this Lightroom will be a big step up.

Need to add some security to your Spring applications? The check this out!
“Acegi Security is a powerful, flexible security solution for enterprise software, with a particular emphasis on applications that use Spring. Using Acegi Security provides your applications with comprehensive authentication, authorization, instance-based access control, channel security and human user detection capabilities.” – acegisecurity.org