Ruby On Rails
So last night I finally took the plunge into the world of Ruby on Rails. While I have yet to start writing any code, I did get MySQL, Ruby, and Rails installed. Now I am looking for a good editor for...
View ArticleRuby On Rails
So, I have been playing around with Rails for a few weeks now and I must say that this is probably the happiest I have ever been. Writing simple clean code that just makes sense and works is awesome!...
View ArticleRails Training
So here is a quick post. I am sitting in a training facility here in SF taking a 4 day Rails training course from Marakana lead by Brandon Keepers. Today is day 1 and so far so good. The class is small...
View ArticleRails Training Cont.
So the Rails training that I was in went really well. I think that for anyone who is considering getting into the world of Rails would benefit from a class like this one. However, if you have been...
View ArticleBeen a long time
So its been nearly a year since my last post. I have dealt with Rails, loved it, hated it, and have pretty much moved on. Easy to write an application in no time at all. More stable than some of the...
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New Ride
So here it is. My new ride. IRO Mark V single speed with risers. Pretty sweet. Love this thing. Smooth ride and light. I rode this bad boy to work all last week and enjoyed every minute of it.Since...
View ArticlejQuery + JSON == bliss
So I have had the need to work with some more javascript, dhtml and ajax user interactions and have found the the amazing library jQuery. I know this isn't new and tons of people are using it, but I...
View ArticleExternalization
So I am working on a project at work using Java 6, Spring ( DI and MVC ), ehcache, SOAP(Axis), ibatis, and some other cool stuff. But that is the core of it. Anyways. Early on some decisions were made...
View ArticleTip of the Day! || /etc/hosts is your friend
From time to time I find myself having to deal with tracking down the root cause of a bug in production. While this doesn't happen often, it is something that all of us have to deal with. Today I found...
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"If company culture was checked into CVS, I would be the first to commit." -- what.else October 2008
View ArticleKill your database!
Share the heap! For free! Across the farm! Yes!I am going to put something together over the next couple of weeks that will increase performance, scalability and decrease downtime!And no I do not work...
View ArticleKill your database! Pt. 2
Friend of mine beat me to it... check out the post Kill Your Database with Terracotta over at Will Code 4 Beer.It is an interesting article challenging the idea that we need a database to begin with....
View ArticleSpring, Filters and Configuration easier than you think.
So I needed to add a filter for some cool stuff in my application.First off I needed to get my filter to play nicely with Spring, so I needed to do the following in my...
View ArticleSpring, JMS, Topics, Queues, Templating...
I recently had the opportunity to write some software at work that needed the ability to use JMS Message Broker to send asynchronous messages around my cluster and to perform data lookup and...
View ArticleEclipse, Shared Heap, and You ( and that guy over there )
So I have been thinking about how to incorporate Terracotta into the applications that I work on at my job for a while and so far we have come up with some good ideas as to how to leverage the...
View ArticleWatch it burn
So I find myself in a new position at work. One that allows me really drive the direction of the product. Which is really cool; I am super stoked on it. I love Rhapsody and I know that I can help make...
View Articlethere's never a reason not to party
So I find myself on this week day afternoon counting down the hours until I can go home. There is nothing for me to do, as I have given notice at my current place of employment and am just counting...
View ArticleRSS - XML == jsonSS
I recently attended The Server Side Symposium in Las Vegas and attended a couple of sessions with Scott Davis from Thirst Head. He had a couple of great sessions on Groovy and JSON. I must say that...
View ArticleSuper Easy Password Generator!
Real quick here. I needed to generate a random string for auto generated passwords. So I was thinking that I was going to have to write some stupid block of code to randomly select characters out of an...
View ArticleSrsly?!
For the love of god. Why do websites use my geo-location to determine the language to display the site in?!My browser user agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US)LOOK!! It...
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