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 long!!??! Anyhow, among the many gotchas I came across, one was how to deal with using Interfaces with Hi...

One of the many things Mac users are proud of is the fact that we never have to turn our Macs off. Macs are built to run for days, weeks, months and even years (in some instances) on end without ever restarting. And it hardly ever feels bogged down. If my Mac isn’t performing any tasks and if ...

Gah, curse this miserable season. The few moments of sunshine there have been this week have occurred when I have, perforce, had to be indoors. As a consequence I’m grumpy and my bodyclock is still wrecked… and I’ve not been out taking photos. So here’s a group portrait of Ae...

Can anyone help me with a log-in problem after coming out of hibernation on a Dell Latitude D830 running XP Professional SP2? "Welcome to Windows" dialog is shown, but ctl+alt+delete does not bring up the log in dialog. I have to do a hard power down and reboot to get back in to Windows. I...

We’ve had a bit of a Moomin hiatus, but last night the lad chose the next book in the series, Moominland Midwinter. As we began, I remembered again why I fell in love with Tove Jansson and her formidable translators. To set the scene: Moomintroll wakes mid-hibernation, something that has never...

Back in the Age of Aquarius, a popular pattern emerged in the Java world dubbed “the data access object“, which essentially “separates a data resource’s [hip] client interface from its data access mechanisms” meaning that clients to a particular domain object were shiel...

I know many of you in the Adobe world are big time Eclipse users. Flex Builder is in Eclipse, CFEclipse is there too. I must say however, that for doing just straight-up Java development, IntelliJ IDEA blows Eclipse out of the water. It is what an IDE should be. Unobtrusive when it needs to be, yet ...

A Look Inside JBoss Rules | Javalobby - JBoss Rules is the production release of the Drools project, an expert system for declarative programming based around the Rete algorithm. During this talk, Mark Proctor, the lead on JBoss Rules covered the Drools basics, as well as the new features in 4. The ...

I've been a bit busy since leaving St. Paul, so I've not had the time to collect my thoughts on cf.Objective() until today.   My initial thoughts are that it was a better show than last year. The content was, again, top notch.  The food and hotel were great, and the people wer...

If you're going to cf.Objective this week, and want to see something you've NEVER seen ColdFusion do before, come to my session: "Enterprise Class MVC with ColdFusion And Java". You will need to know what the MVC pattern is and nothing more. Jason Delmore's session would be a g...