Seriously, No BullFluff

October 5, 2007 | by chico
Last week’s No Fluff Just Stuff symposium was undoubtedly the best Java event I’ve attended thus far, and the icing on the cake was Brian Sletten’s talk on “Beyond Cute-sy Mashups”. It was worth showing up for that alone. It’s not very often that it happens, but I’m stoked. Below is my newly updated ‘Bleeding Edge [...]
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No Fluff Just Stuff

September 28, 2007 | by chico
The day started curiously as I was waiting for the 57, where I came across a quaint wannabe bus driver from Somalia. Naturally, I asked him why he had opted for life over here in Canada. “Here the supermarkets don’t sell bullets side by side with the vegetables”, was his honest reply. I never did [...]
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Sweet Online Reference Tool

June 7, 2007 | by chico
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Unit Test Your Web Security

May 31, 2007 | by chico
Web-based business applications require stringent security measures. Within a secure website, a user must be authenticated by the system and for each different user role a predetermined set of authorization rights must be imposed. This isn’t anything new, and luckily, there exists an open source Java security framework, known as Acegi, which makes the job [...]
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Automating Asynchronous Jobs with Java 5 and Spring

May 25, 2007 | by chico

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