If anyone’s interested, here’s a clue as to what I’m working on in 2010:

For several years now, Neal Gafter (Microsoft) and Joshua Block (Google), have made a habit of presenting various incarnations of this technical session, focused on what they call “Java Puzzlers.” Java Puzzlers are nothing more than short Java programs with curious behavior. It is a somewhat interactive session, with each puzzler’s code listing followed by [...]

Alex Miller’s Twitter background inspired me to generate a Wordle from my feed. How fitting that “Code” is more prominent than anything.

I didn’t have one this year, but Expedia did. Check it out!

So as I’m sitting here thumbing through my InfoQ feed on Google Reader, I come across the following posting: Software Craftsmanship Manifesto: A Call to Arms. It seems that a group of “programming patriots” has struck again (see the Manifesto for Agile Software Development - circa 2001), complete with a “founding document” look and feel. [...]

I’m currently working on a Grails application with a requirement for uploading product images, which are subsequently resized into thumbnails of various sizes for different shopping screens. Since it took a bit of doing to get this done, I thought I’d post my solution here in case anyone could benefit from it.
First, to set the [...]

Here’s little man Grant himself smiling for the camera!

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 [...]

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 [...]

Well, after a short hiatus of getting back to “real” work, I’m going to attempt to squeeze in another Spring Experience 2007 entry. This particular session was my first of Friday morning. I’ve always enjoyed Keith Donald as a speaker, having first heard him at TheServerSide.com’s Java In Action conference in 2005, and again during [...]