Farewell CFDJ: My Last Year on the Editorial Board in Review
Although this is a topic which has gotten much coverage, to the point of beating a dead horse, I felt obligated to comment on it as someone who served on the Editorial Board of the ColdFusion...
View ArticleJava 6 for Developers on MacOS X: SoyLatte Reaches 1.0
For those many of you (including myself) who have been waiting almost a year now for Java 6 to be properly supported on the Mac, the wait is over if you're a developer-- Landon Fuller has released...
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News Flash: Apple Finally Released Java 6 for MacOS X!
UPDATE: I was up too late, and didn't notice that it's update 6 for Java, not Java 6. This is just another update for Java 5... *sigh* I've been up pretty late doing a little work and tying-up some...
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Maven: Including Axis2 Artifacts into EAR’s
I'm going to skip over a rant about how much Axis2 sucks in order to pass a tip on how to include Axis2 artifacts (AAR's, MAR's, etc) into an EAR file using the Maven plugin to package EAR files,...
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Getting Behind Python: Sun Hires Python & Jython Developers
As both a fan and user of the great technologies Python, and the Sun JVM (primarily via Java), I was very happy to come across this eWeek article which says that Sun announced the hiring of two key...
View ArticleA Regular Expression To Proxy Basic ColdFusion Requests
(Note: I'm cleaning up some old drafts which have been sitting around for awhile.) A couple of years ago while setting-up a new J2EE server cluster using the Implementing Multitier Hardware Load...
View ArticleUsing Spring and Hibernate With JPA And Entity Interfaces
I'm currently setting up a new Hibernate project and finally getting around to trying out JPA annotations instead of using any Hibernate configuration or mapping files-- what the hell took me so...
View ArticleThe Most Efficent Way to Increment A Map Value in Java
Finding myself in a situation of needing to increment values in a map in Java, I was curious to see what the most efficient way to do so. Said piece of code will be looped over thousands of times and I...
View ArticleRunning Jetty 7 on Port 80 With Maven
I think Jetty is one of the best kept secrets in the Java world, in particular for getting a quick container up and running with full integration with Maven for local testing of Java based web...
View ArticleCFAkismet Has Moved to GitHub
This is just a quick note to mention that one of the first open source projects that I wrote, CFAkismet, the ColdFusion based Akismet client, has finally moved to GitHub. Read more about it’s new...
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