Archive for February, 2008

On our way to the Gateway Software Symposium

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 [...]

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Set Conditional Breakpoints in IDEA

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 [...]

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Grails 1.0 Released!

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!

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A Javascript Code "Prettifier"

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: [...]

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The Spring Experience 2007 – Videos on the way!

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 [...]

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