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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4 Feb
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: [...]
21 Dec
Web Application Data Access Patterns: Keith Donald
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 [...]
15 Dec
Goodbye Spring Experience 2007!
Well it had to end eventually. As you can see, I’m hopelessly behind on my blog entries, having only made it through my first day of sessions. I’ve still got several more I intend to cover (I probably won’t do the last two as I started blanking out – I think my brain was pretty [...]
12 Oct
Ajax Construction Kit: Building Plug-and-Play Ajax Applications
My first book review for Javalobby was published today!
5 Sep
Please support me in the 2007 Walk to Cure Diabetes
This year, I’ll be taking part in JDRF’s Walk to Cure Diabetes, along with one-half million other walkers across the country, as we try to reach our goal of raising $90 million. Type 1, or juvenile, diabetes, is a devastating disease that affects millions of people – a large and growing percentage of them children. [...]
29 Aug
Welcome to Matt’s Mac Paradise
I’ve been wanting to post a picture of my new work setup for awhile, but I wanted to wait until I finished getting setup over at 160 Shadyac Avenue. Just for fun, I thought I’d go VMWare Fusion crazy and boot up every virtual machine I’ve got – you’re actually looking at 7 OS’s booted [...]
27 Jul
STJUDE-SRM 1.0 Released
From http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=719803: On July 27, 2007, STJUDE-SRM 1.0 was released. STJUDE-SRM is a laboratory management system designed to support shared resource facility (or core lab) activities. It was designed and developed by the Hartwell Center for Bioinformatics and Biotechnology at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Shared resources supported include DNA synthesis, Peptide synthesis, DNA sequencing, [...]
9 Jul
On Agile: Why You Won’t Fix It Later
Ryan Cooper writes a brilliant essay on why quick fixes today turn into tomorrow’s code rot. I believe every word of this article. Unfortunately, I’m all too often my own worst enemy when it comes to implementing these ideas. Thanks for the reminder, Ryan! On Agile: Why You Won’t Fix It Later
6 Jul
Graeme Rocher’s Blog: 5 More Misconceptions About Grails
Graeme Rocher, founder of the Grails project, answers five more misconceptions about Groovy/Grails vs. Ruby/Rails. I’ve grown to be quite fond of both of these languages/frameworks; however, given the amount of investment I’ve placed into learning and applying Spring and Hibernate to the applications I’ve developed over the past two years, I have to say [...]
