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 have to wait before the spammers catch up. 😉
I know it’s been in the works for a little while, but now it’s finally released for the preview version of TopLink. Donald Smith has a post here. We won’t be needing JTA support in our current project, but it’s good to know that we’ll be able to leverage Spring and TopLink in projects that need 2PC transactions from now on.
Graham Hamilton the lead architect of J2SE follows up his last interview with a new one here. He talks about making the development of the Java platform more open and how they strive to preserve the simplicity of the language while still adding power for the developers. I definitely think they are on the right track here.