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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(Note: This article is a bunch of high-level thoughts and tips I’ve come up with over the last little while. For more in-depth and comprehensive Hibernate information, I highly recommend Java Persistence with Hibernate)
A little over a year ago, I joined the project in part to add some Hibernate expertise. Since then, we have been […]

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I think I’ve gotten the art of deploying a rails app on a DreamHost down, and a few friends have asked for a quick tutorial, so here it is. Once you learn how to do it, you can get a new app up and running in 5 minutes or less.
This assumes you know how to […]

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I use Java almost 100% of the time in my day job. I think it is perfectly suited for what we do and love working with it. I also do work on the side and am really struggling to use Java for that stuff.
I actually think that with some really cool developments made over the […]

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Agile has been a popular software development methodology for some time now. I think Agile methodologies typically work quite well for most projects and see this as a generally good thing. That said, how Agile is implemented makes more of a difference than the simple decision to use it.
Unfortunately, I’ve seen Agile implemented poorly more […]

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I do JEE development for my day job, but lately have been doing a lot of Ruby on Rails development on the side for some financial websites I’ve been building. I’ve used PHP in the past for these, and see Rails as a better alternative.
One minor issue with Ruby on Rails is that it still […]

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It seems like once a month or so, someone comes out with an article about the ‘real’ problem with JSF, how JSF is dead in the water, or how bad it is. I think uninformed articles like these are the biggest problem with JSF right now - go to a JEE forum and read JSF […]

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I’ve spent the last 10 years doing web development and little else. This year, I’ve vowed to get more experience outside of web development. After hearing some of the cool stuff happening in the mobile space, I decided I’d like to do some mobile programming. There are tons of cool applications for this that I […]

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