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Seriously, No BullFluff
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
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
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Unit Test Your Web Security
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
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Hibernate Tip of the Day - Is it a feature or a bug?
Annotations have undoubtedly been a breath of fresh air since coming onto the Java scene, but here’s one big slap in the face which you can’t help but feel is totally unwarranted.
I’m talking about mixing your field and method annotations in Hibernate. This really bares its ugly head when annotating relationships.
Let’s have a look-see at [...]
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It’s Not All About The Loonie
Come one day last December, an illustrious day in the UK (i.e. rainy and miserable), I had my first heart warming conversation with Trevor, our PM at 2Paths. I had just come back from traveling for 12 months around the globe. Some might say I wasn’t in the mood to talk shop, but my mood [...]
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