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The Java Persistence Question: To Hibernate or Not?

Monday, August 23, 2010

To Hibernate or not to Hibernate that is the persistence question! Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous SQL statements Or to take arms against a sea of result sets and by opposing iterate them? This post is about my ambivalence about the Hibernate framework and its frequent [...]

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Online Gaming Parental Update

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

By far the most commented post I’ve made is on the parental concerns of an incipient child gamer. Well, my son is now a teen ager and I thought it was time for a progress report/update on how I view online gaming and its effects on my son. In short the news is mostly good. [...]

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Going Groovy From Java

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

I’ve got a new-found burst of coding energy thanks in part to using the JVM compliant Groovy programming language. If you’re unfamiliar with Groovy and you program in Java you’ll want to investigate this highly productive, easy to learn, Java-like language – IMHO, it is what Java ought to have evolved into if it hadn’t [...]

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Comcast – A Customer Dis-service Story

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

We were Comcast broadband TV, data, and phone customers for a handful of years and while we weren’t always thrilled with the quality of the service we were content enough not to go to a satellite service until ATT came into our area with U-Verse. The Comcast issues of faltering download speeds at peak times [...]

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Donate to Wikipedia Today!!

Thursday, November 19, 2009

While I’m happy to get on a soap box about ‘this or that’ as my blog proves, I don’t think I’ve ever urged a reader to shell out some money in a post – until now. Wikipedia is requesting donations and I’m a believer in its mission and a beneficiary of the information that it [...]

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A Fault Tolerant Network Model for Charities

Sunday, November 15, 2009

A while back our neighborhood had a food drive to collect canned goods for donation to a local food bank. Each household was issued a brown paper shopping bag and asked to fill it with whatever sorts of items they wished. The response is usually super and bags filled to the brim dot the end [...]

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Windows 7 – New OS with New Hardware Flies

Saturday, November 7, 2009

The big caveat to my new-found respect for Windows is that I’m running Windows 7 on a very, very fast machine. Due to the hefty requirements of WebSphere and Java tooling my company sprung for 64 bit Windows 7 running on a Dell Precision M4400 with 8 Gigs of RAM and a solid state hard [...]

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links for 2009-10-02

Friday, October 2, 2009

The Dalai Lama and Verses on Training the Mind: A Mystic's Journal, October 10, 2007 (tags: buddhism, mindfulness, compasion, tibetan)

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Productivity in an IBM World

Friday, August 28, 2009

There’s lots of religious disputes over how to measure programmer productivity. Language selection, platform, and tool set all have something to do with how fast a problem is converted into a solution. As a coder, I view writing code as my principal measure of productivity. I’m not really talking about a count of lines but [...]

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IBM WebSphere Alpha Sort

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

I suppose my vast audience may be getting IBM bashing fatigue but if I don’t vent here I may not have the necessary self-restraint at my office to avoid getting reprimanded or worse. So, I’m installing applications on our spanking new Process Server 6.1 installation using our Maven automation. The list of applications I’m deploying [...]

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