A while ago, I wrote an “article”:http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2003/08/08/rss.html on RSS and the Java “Informa API”:http://informa.sourceforge.net/ for O’Reilly’s “java.net”:http://java.net site. This morning, my Google blog search called up an odd search result – it seems as though a certain Dr. Charlie Peng had copied the article wholesale for his BlogSpot blog, ‘IT Architect’. It looks like a [...]
Categories: Java, Writing
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- August 18, 2006 – 1:34 pm
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- By sam
I’ve been struggling with configuring a password protected Resin-deployed JMX application on windows recently. This is being blogged in the hope that Google will pick this up and make the process much simpler for someone later on.
Categories: Java
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- June 29, 2006 – 11:10 pm
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- By sam
When connecting to a database from Java, it’s very handy to tag your connections. When tracking down performance issues and monitoring at a database levels, being able to seperate out your program’s connections (which could come from a variety of machines). Most database drivers allow you to specify a program name when creating your connection.
With [...]
Categories: Java
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- May 9, 2006 – 9:07 pm
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- By sam
Some more code excerpts from Squiggle 2
Categories: Java
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- April 24, 2006 – 8:46 pm
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- By sam
[java]
Table person = new Table(“person”);
return select(person.star()).
from(person).
orderBy(person.column(“name”));
[/java]
[java]
Table person = new Table(“person”);
Column age = person.column(“age”);
return select(person.star()).
[...]
Categories: Java
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- April 2, 2006 – 9:09 pm
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- By sam
Yes, I know what you’re thinking – “So soon after the announcement of the “March meeting(magpiebrain – London RC3 March Meetup)”:http://www.magpiebrain.com/archives/2006/02/25/london20_rc3? Has Sam started getting organised?”. Well, kind of – actually I heard from Harry Pot “Simon W(Simon Willison’s Weblog)”:http://simon.incutio.com/ that one of the Django devs, “Adrian Holovaty(Adrian Holovaty’s Weblog)”:http://www.holovaty.com/, was going to be in [...]
Categories: Django, Java, London 2.0 Meet-Ups, Ruby, Web Design
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- February 25, 2006 – 11:54 am
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- By sam
Just a quick note after a long absence (no doubt a flood of posts will now follow, preceding another too long gap). Anyway, “London 2.0rc2(London 2.0rc1 on Upcoming.org)”:http://upcoming.org/event/47958/ is on for this Tuesday. Once again it’ll be combining the Python meetup, and will be open to all Ruby, Django, Rails, Python, RSS, Catalyst, web.py, TurboGears, [...]
Categories: Django, Java, Ruby
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- January 5, 2006 – 9:23 am
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- By sam
*We need a snappier name…
As the calendar gets a little crowded in December, myself, Simon and Jez have decided to combine the Java, Django/Rails and Python nights together in one big bash at the Old Bank Of England, on the 12th of December, from 7pm onwards. As normal there is no particular agenda, although people [...]
Categories: Django, Java, Ruby
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- November 21, 2005 – 5:47 pm
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- By sam
A recent post by Cedric in response to an article by Michael Feathers (danger, community navel gazing alert! Obviously this blog is above such things) casts doubt on the necessity of unit tests.
Michael’s rules on what a unit test is seem overly draconian to some (not being able to touch the filesystem for example [...]
Categories: Java
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- September 18, 2005 – 12:46 pm
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- By sam
It’s been a while since I’ve had to unleash the angry kitten, but it seems that the OpenAdaptor developers have rather inadvisably irked me, to the extent that I’ve withheld the kitten’s food for two days now, to make the ensuing carnage all the more…well, carnagy.
To start with, I like the concept and some of [...]
Categories: Java
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- August 1, 2005 – 11:04 pm
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- By sam