We’re taking most of our team to the St. Louis, Missouri, edition of the No Fluff Just Stuff 2008 tour. This will be my first actual NFJS event. I attended the Spring Experience in 2007, which was put on by the NFJS guys, so I expect this event in St. Louis to be great. Since [...]

So yesterday I was attempting to debug an issue in a batch processing module within one of our applications. In short, an assertion was failing deep within Hibernate as it attempted to flush the session. Using a combination of various log statements, I had isolated the problem down to a particular record that the batch [...]

Grails, by far my favorite of the JVM dynamic language frameworks, was released this morning, with a snazzy, new, “Web 2.0 style” website to boot. Congratulations Graeme and company on all of your hard work!

I came across a link today that would allow you to post “pretty” code in any HTML page. I’ve had plenty of problems (as have others) posting well-formatted source code to my Blogger-based blog. I’ve wanted to correct this problem for some time, and this project appears to be a decent solution. Here’s an example:
function [...]

I got an awesome email today…
We are happy to announce that the video/audio streaming from TSE 2007 will be available online the week of February 11th for you. You will have the opportunity to see/hear the TSE 2007 presentations you were not able to make at TSE 2007 due to all of the great [...]