Several months ago, the programming team I am on decided to try out pair programming. The title of this paper is not a judgment of how I feel about pair programming at all, but rather an observation on one of the potential pitfalls of it.
Overall, I’m inclined to think that there can be great benefit […]

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With all the buzz about iTunes not working properly on Windows Vista, I was worried when I decided to upgrade over the weekend. I found some instructions from Apple that recommended I deauthorize all of my accounts and uninstall iTunes prior to installing Vista, which I followed.
The actual Vista upgrade was somewhat harrowing - my […]

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Despite using Eclipse for several years now, I’ve only recently started to use a really cool feature - templates. It may seem a bit silly at first, but it has been a very useful feature for us. Why?
- Saves a small amount of typing - it adds up though
- It helps cut down typos or […]

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Ah, what a fun weekend.. I’m working on a few projects using Seam right now, and I wanted a way to deploy them out onto an actual server so that other people could look at them. Normally, you’d have a dedicated server for running Java apps, but those are kinda pricey, especially for while you […]

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I have to admit, I procrastinated over getting more familiar with Seam. Partially because I’ve had a bunch of other stuff on my plate, but mostly because of its close ties with EJB3. After giving EJB3 a fair shake, I realized it was actually ok. Over the Christmas break, I started looking into Seam more […]

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With JPA (Java Persistence API) gaining more and more traction, a good book on how to best use the Hibernate implementation has been sorely needed - fortunately, Java Persistence with Hibernate is that book. Pro EJB 3: Java Persistence API is a great general JPA reference, and has indeed come in handy for many questions […]

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For all the good that the internet accomplishes, I’m still astounded by the sheer amount of negative stuff on it too. I am constantly helping friends and family get rid of viruses, spyware, and adware. Even worse than that, many folks are having passwords stolen, computers and servers hacked, and other security-related problems. Indeed, safely […]

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This is the first of a two part series showing how easy it is to expose and consume web services using the Spring Framework and XFire. In this part, we’ll be going through exposing the web services. This assumes you are using the following:
- Maven 2 (for dependencies)
- Spring 2.0 (although, it should work fine […]

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