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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It has been interesting to see the various reactions to Java 6 not being included with OS X Leopard. Several people on Javalobby advocated boycotting Apple over this. I  don’t think a boycott is in order - in fact, I just bought a brand new iMac, even knowing Java 6 wasn’t on it :) Other […]

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Last week, I sold my iMac in preparation for buying a new 24″ Core 2 Duo model when Leopard came out. Now it is out, sans Java 6. I’ve spent the last few hours looking at what people are saying on places like Javalobby, the JavaPosse Google Group, Apple’s Java mailing lists, etc.. A lot […]

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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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(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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