I’ve been developing a bunch of small Grails apps lately, and I end up deploying them to my production box fairly frequently. This is kind of annoying because the upload speed on my home internet connection is terrible - it sometimes takes 7 or 8 minutes to upload a new WAR and during that time, […]

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I’ve been playing around with Grails and a bit of GWT lately, and it sure is a lot of fun. I’ve made some applications that use Grails, GWT, and GoogleMaps (see: Find A Wii Fit), and thought I’d write a quick tutorial on how to do it - it can be a little tricky.
This application […]

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Ah, the smell of a fresh codebase.
I’m certain most software developers who have been around for any amount of time have had to work on “The Project”. This project has probably been going for years, has had a fair amount of turnover on the development team, and has had a handful of architects (with their […]

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With the skyrocketing cost of fuel and the increasing impact of fuel costs on American workers, I have to ask - Why aren’t more people telecommuting? My comments are specifically for IT-related jobs, since that is where my experience is, but I believe a fairly large number of other jobs could be done via telecommuting […]

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2008 is shaping up to be a great year for mobile development. Google released its Android platform late last year, and Apple has released an early version of its SDK for the iPhone just a few days ago. I’m not a full-time mobile developer, so I figure I’ll eventually have to settle on one […]

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Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of instability and memory issues in Eclipse (Europa) with WTP, both in my own use, from co-workers, and on IRC. Today, a friend sent me this link which appears to show the cause for at least some of these issues. It appears the latest release used:
–launcher.XXMaxPermSize256m
in the eclipse.ini to […]

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Having finally got Hibernate Tools working with a project I’m working on, I was pretty excited - the HQL console and auto-complete features are going to save us tons of time, specifically, time spent re-deploying the web application as we debug JPQL queries. Time spent redeploying an application is wasted time and can sometimes eat […]

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One tricky thing I’ve seen people have trouble with (and at one point had some trouble with myself..) is the way events fired by listeners are processed in JSF - specifically, how exceptions are handled. The symptom is easy to see - exceptions are being thrown in methods called by these listeners, but aren’t being […]

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