Posted by:
Craig Walls
on 02/08/2010
In case you've not heard or don't follow me on Twitter, I'm pleased to announce that my fourth DZone Refcard, one covering Spring Web Flow, was released today. You can also read a short interview that I did with James Sugrue.
In case you're wondering...yep, I'm still working on Spring in Action 3. In fact, I'm now writing the Spring Web Flow chapter...so I get a chance to expand on what's in the Refcard. It's a lot of fun writing Refcards, but it's incredibly difficult to cram so much... more »
Posted by:
Robert Fischer
on 02/05/2010
When encountering a bug in an open source project, most Java people seem unwilling to either fix it themselves or pay the maintainer to fix it—they’d rather abandon the project or kludge their software painfully and repetitively. WTF?
CommentsFebruary 5, 2010, Hamlet D'Arcy wrote: In the past my problem has been that my organization would not let me rely on a personal or nightly build of a project. So when you need a workaround by the end of the week, waiting 2 months for the next... more »
Posted by:
Brian Goetz
on 02/05/2010
I extended zTunes to handle VOB video files, and was able to push some tracks from DVD (ripped using DVDShrink) through zTunes to iTunes. Pretty nice, but I had to manually edit the ripped file names since ripping from DVD doesn’t include any metadata. Can anyone recommend a better way to rip from DVD to VOB, where one can more easily edit the track names before the rip so that the files get created with reasonable names?
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Posted by:
Robert Fischer
on 02/02/2010
From the Official Google Enterprise Blog:
Many other companies have already stopped supporting older browsers like Internet Explorer 6.0 as well as browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers. We’re also going to begin phasing out our support, starting with Google Docs and Google Sites. As a result you may find that from March 1 key functionality within these products — as well as new Docs and Sites features — won’t work properly in older browsers.
w00t! Die,... more »
Posted by:
Andrew Glover
on 02/02/2010
The easyb team is pleased to announce the posting of a hip introductory video that demonstrates both specifications and stories in action. In this 8 and 1/2 minute video, you’ll learn that easyb enables you to express human readable expectations that verify any Java application (or to be more precise, anything running on the JVM) and that you express those expectations in Groovy.
If you think easyb concisely expresses expectations (i.e. features or requirements) in a... more »
Posted by:
Brian Gilstrap
on 02/02/2010
I was giving a talk about RESTful services using JAX-RS and Jersey recently and was asked why I had used Mark Volkmann's WAX for generating HTML and XML. The person asking the question pointed out that Jersey has integration with JAXB.There were two answers to that question. One answer is that I am leery of anything which automatically converts my Java objects into a serialized format (bitten by Java's object serialization in the past). Incompatible object changes can be difficult or... more »
Posted by:
Nathaniel Schutta
on 01/31/2010
Freedom (TM) is Daniel Suarez’s followup to one of my favorite books of 2009 – Daemon. Required reading for last year’s Hackers B and B, Daemon is a geek friendly book that includes a main character using a perfectly realistic SQL attack to hack into a computer (there’s no “this is UNIX” moment from Jurassic Park here.) Suarez is to geek what Tom Clancy is to military: dead on details abound. I tore through Daemon and I hotly awaited the conclusion of... more »
Posted by:
Brian Goetz
on 01/31/2010
This is a nice little book about the history of mathematics and the 350-year quest for the proof to Fermat’s Last Theorem. It was written by the fellow who wrote the BBC / Nova TV special on Andrew Wiles, but includes a lot more information than a one-hour show could. It does a nice job at hitting many of the high points of mathematical development from Pythagoras to modern day, including the “discovery” of zero, then negative numbers, then imaginary numbers,... more »
Posted by:
Brian Goetz
on 01/31/2010
We’ve recently gone on an “energy efficiency” rampage at the house, replacing bulbs with CFLs, identifying devices that are unnecessarily left on all the time, wrestling with Windows to stay asleep during periods of inactivity, etc. We also recently just installed a “continuous” or “on demand” hot water heater, replacing the 50G direct-vent tank heater we had (it was getting to the end of its lifetime and it was easier to replace it... more »
Posted by:
Robert Fischer
on 01/31/2010
Thanks to Alicia Weller. It started a minor clean-up of the previous theme and (like most software projects) evolved into something much more interesting and exciting. There’s now a big area for features (e.g. open source projects), a space for “Classic Enfranchised Mind” posts, and an excerpt (instead of full-text) based front page. We’ve also shifted to the asynchronous Google Analytics tracking, which helps speed up load times.
We stuck with the same header:... more »
Posted by:
Robert Fischer
on 01/27/2010
If you’ve got a smart phone, would you mind hitting http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog with it and letting me know how it looks? I’ve installed a plugin to add mobile support to WordPress, and I’d like feedback.
CommentsJanuary 27, 2010, Cody Brimhall wrote: Looks great from my iPhone!January 27, 2010, Nathan L. Walls wrote: I just checked Mobile Safari and it looks good. Actions for showing/hiding post summary from the index page works. Good default view per post.January... more »
Posted by:
Matthew McCullough
on 01/27/2010
Open Source Debugging in Norway
My Open Source Debugging talk that I gave at JavaZone, Oslo, Norway last September is online and can be watched in Flash format or downloaded as an M4V file. If you were not able to catch this talk at either this venue, or any of the many NoFluffJustStuff.com stops that I gave this talk at last year, give it a try and let me know what you think of it.
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Posted by:
Andrew Glover
on 01/27/2010
SDTimes recently published an article entitled “Five changes for application development in 2010” in which they reference a newly released Forrester report. This report attempts to delineate five changes regarding how development will be conducted in 2010 (and beyond) based upon the less than ideal economic climate we’re currently living in. In fact, the authors of the Forrester report use the term “lean and mean” to describe the focus going forward, which... more »
Posted by:
Matthew McCullough
on 01/25/2010
Finder Comments Lost
When restoring from a backup, depending on the Mac-specific intelligence of your backup solution, or when copying files written by a 10.4 Mac, your Spotlight (Finder) Comments stored in the .DS_Store files might not survive the round trip. You’ll first notice this by the fact that your comments field or column is completely empty for files you know you previously tagged or made comments on.
Leopard, Snow Leopard Comment Storage
Tiger and previous editions... more »
Posted by:
Keith Donald
on 01/25/2010
In my last entry, I walked you through several enhancements in Spring 3 for web application development. A number of you expressed interest in a follow-up entry focused on Ajax remoting. Spring 3 provides a lot in this area to take advantage of. Read on, and I'll walk you through it.
Spring and [...]
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Posted by:
Scott Leberknight
on 01/24/2010
I just bought Keynote Remote for my iPhone. It is very simple, has the option to display presenter notes, and is absurdly simple to link to Keynote and start controlling presentations. What was a little more involved was that I wanted to use it regardless of whether there is a wireless network around or not. Since Keynote Remote requires a wi-fi connection here's what I'm doing to get around this little annoyance. Basically all you need to do is set up an ad-hoc wireless network with your... more »
Posted by:
Pratik Patel
on 01/24/2010
Ok, I'm documenting this for those that hit this same problem. Is it taking a LONG time to run some Java app, making it seemingly hang? This happens when running Ubuntu or any flavour of Linux in VMware or Virtual Box. I d/l a pre-made image of Ubuntu Server 9.10 from http://www.thoughtpolice.co.uk/vmware/, put JDK 1.6_18 on it, and went on with installing some app servers and other stuff for setting up a Hudson SWARM.I attempt to start some Java procs, and they took a long... more »
Posted by:
Venkat Subramaniam
on 01/24/2010
2010 is going to be busy for conference and use group speaking.
I'm excited the following conferences and user groups have invited me to speak in
2010.
Conferences:
USville (Several US locations)
Click on image for dates near you
NFJS is 10 years old now! I started on the NFJS tour fairly early and it's been absolute
fun. The attendees on this... more »
Posted by:
Nathaniel Schutta
on 01/22/2010
The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals has been on my reading list for quite some time now and over the holidays I finally got around to ordering it – as my first foray into the world of the Kindle. Yes, my dad came through in a big way and allowed me to join the likes of Neal Ford, Stu Halloway and Scott Davis…but back to Pollan’s book. Omnivore’s Dilemma starts with a simple question: where does our food come from? Pollan follows a humble... more »
Posted by:
Craig Walls
on 01/21/2010
Now that we're a few weeks into 2010, my speaking calendar is starting to take shape. Already in just the first quarter I think I have more dates set than I did in all of 2009.
If you follow this blog, you know me and you know that I like to yammer on about Spring and OSGi. So it should be no surprise that it is those topics that I'll be talking most about again this year. But I'll be throwing in some other stuff as well.
In case you're interested in attending one of the places... more »
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