Linking to native code in Java is always a hassle. JNI isn’t exactly nice, and there are some oddities around classloaders and native libraries which are annoying if you run into them. One thing I wasn’t aware of was exactly how hard it is to load a library it isn’t already in the ...

State Supreme Court to hear challenges to Prop. 8: The state Supreme Court plunged back into the same-sex marriage wars today, agreeing to decide the legality of a ballot measure that repealed the right of gay and lesbian couples to wed in California. At the urging of both sponsors and opponents of ...

James White    Here is a clip from the Monday debate where I gave strong evidence of the inconsistency of Shabir Ally in his constant dependence upon the most radical, left-wing "Christian" scholarship for all of his assertions regarding the New Testament. He does not adopt the same s...

On fait parfois de ces découvertes...Je me baladais tranquillement dans les rayons de la Fnac, en train de baver sur les pochettes de DVD et, à la manière de Breton, de flâner en quête de la perle rare, celle qui avait été placée là pour m...

I really like Victor David Hanson. Here are two gems from a recent post of his musings: 1) There has to be an end to these serial bailouts—financial, the insurance companies, now cars, next cities and states, and soon mortgage holders (we will de facto punish those who struggle to pay their mortga...

In AJAX based applications its common that user might end up breaking your AJAX calls by clicking on numerous places in very short interval of time. Let us assume there is a page where there are several of hyperlinks which make WebService calls and do some stuffs on callback. If user clicks on five ...

it has been about 4 months sense we, Power Circus,  have played here in Portland, yes, we are still around.we were just busy traveling & so forth... Show in Portland Nov 23rd! SUNDAY   NOVEMBER 23rd   9pm SIKHARA 'ANDUNI' CD Release Tour Portland node info, music and vid...

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I needed an attribute to decorate methods/controllers to protect them from being accessed by users that are not logged in.  If I were using a .net provider for authentication I could use the [Authorize] attribute that is provided in the MVC framework.  However, in this case I chose to create my ow...

I needed an attribute to decorate methods/controllers to protect them from being accessed by users that are not logged in.  If I were using a .net provider for authentication I could use the [Authorize] attribute that is provided in the MVC framework.  However, in this case I chose to create my ow...