2Paths Bonspiel 
				

				
	March 23, 2007 |
	by Shan 


                                

					Tuesday March 20th saw the 2Paths team pack up their Java code and MacBooks, and head to the Marpole Curling Club in south Vancouver for an afternoon of rocks, brooms, pebbles, and yelling.
Photographic evidence of the exploits was collected for insurance purposes:



Peter and Judi try to blind everyone with the whiteness of their teeth, while [...]

					
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					Advice for the new Vancouverite 
				

				
	March 2, 2007 |
	by Shan 


                                

					You know that corner of your apartment that, due to convection and warm currents and static and whatnot, attracts all the dust bunnies from the rest of the floor? Vancouver is sort of like that.
I’m not saying that Vancouver is full of refuse, it’s not; it’s full of wonderous people and things, but it seems [...]

					
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					One Headache to(o) Many: Hibernate’s beef with multiple bags 
				

				
	March 1, 2007 |
	by Shan 


                                

					Relationships are hard. Especially when there’s One that’s intimately connected to a whole list of others.
But go figure, it’s totally acceptable in software. And you don’t have to wear silk robes and grease your hair.
For some reason I encountered this funky error when starting up two web applications on the same Tomcat:
org.hibernate.HibernateException: cannot simultaneously fetch [...]

					
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					Snow Frolic 
				

				
	February 27, 2007 |
	by Shan 


                                

					A few images of the recent 2paths mountain outing à la snowshoe.




An odd unintentional effect.

Ravens were circling, waiting for one of us to drop – no doubt to steal the snowshoes and get the deposit back at MEC.





Near the peak we actually came face to face with the great universal power; turns out he didn’t [...]

					
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