Blu-ray at 1080p is better than your local theater
This weekend, we decided to take our daughter to her first movie in a real theater. This was the first time my and I had set foot into a movie theater in about three years (Yeah, we haven’t been out…
Please NBC, don’t cancel Life!
You know, a lot of network T.V. kinda sucks so when a decent show comes along that goes on the chopping block, it bums me out a bit. I started watching Life on NBCÂ just because I happened to be watching…
Eclipse on Mac Java 6 Reveals More SWT Shortcomings
Two years ago, I raised a few points about some of the short comings of SWT. Because of it’s native bindings, SWT makes the Java mantra of “write once, run anywhere” quite a bit more daunting. For the most part,…
WordPress Update Gone Bad
It’s always annoying to upgrade WordPress and then to find out 2 days later that all of your links now return a 404 error. All this depsite the fact that it was all working just fine after the update. It…
Better Questions Get Better Answers
Did you ever have that teacher or professor who always tried to tell you that: “there is no such thing as a stupid question?” This may have been true in school, but in a professional software engineering environment, I can…
Hibernate and and the “Found two representations of same collection” error
Last night I spent an extended work day trying to track down the source of a Hibernate exception that I have never encountered before. The application in question is a simple data loader application that reads in an XML file…
My Wife was SOOO Right!
I should know better by now, but the Mrs. has a decent track record of being right. Sometimes. Had I agreed the first time around, we’d have had the right color paint up on the walls this time and we’d…
RESTEasy and Seam
There has been some discussion lately regarding integrating JBoss Seam with RESTEasy. Jay Balunas recently made about post on his thoughts on ths subject, so I thought I’d post some of mine. For the record, I am a huge fan…
Announcing JBoss RESTEasy Beta1
In case you didn’t see Bill’s post on the subject, I wanted to let folks know that RESTEasy entered it’s first beta release as JBoss RESTEasy Beta 1. You can read more here and you can get the release here.



