A couple weeks ago I came across some code that used an instance of an AtomicInteger, which is part of the java.util.concurrent.atomic package, which I believe the majority of which was written by Doug Lea, author of the excellent util.concurrent library. I wrote the class name down in my todo.txt thinking that it would be [...]
At work we’ve been having some discussions about sharing content between two websites: the natural first option was an XML solution, in this case RSS. Site A would subscribe to the RSS feeds of the site B, periodically retrieving the updated feeds, caching the contents of each feed for a specified period of [...]
A couple of weeks ago on the DWR users list, in the context of needing to wire up DWR without using an XML file, Joe Walker pointed to a blog posting by Martin Fowler. In it, Martin discusses an interface style called a ‘fluent interface’. It’s a little difficult to describe in words (so check [...]
For the last couple weeks I’ve been working on the ‘Deep, Real-time Reporting’ features of Wildfire Enterprise, which officially launched today (if you’ve ever thought about messing around with instant messaging / XMPP / Jabber, I’d highly recommend checking it out and that’s the last corporate pitch you’ll hear out of me). Herewith (as [...]
I submitted a skeleton of the article that follows to JDJ, was told they would like to ‘commission’ it and then finally submitted it only to never hear anything back from them. So instead you get to read it here. Enjoy!
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Anyone who has spent any time working a application that sends emails has [...]
If you happen to be using TinyMCE and the Prototype library together and you’re getting a ‘too much recursion’ error in FireFox, make sure to upgrade to the latest version of Prototype, which at the time of this post is version 1.5.0. Near as I can tell, the only way to get version 1.5.0 [...]
This morning I spent some time playing with WSE, .NET and Java. I knew Fiddler could listen in on conversations between IE and the world, but I never was able to get it to listen to conversations between me and well, me (ie: localhost). Turns out, according to the well named help page, that
“….NET will [...]
It’s been awhile since I mentioned anything about Lucene, my favorite Java based open source indexing and search library (which I built the karakoram spider / search application around). Doug Cutting, who created Lucene and who has spent the last couple years working on Nutch, was recently hired by Yahoo!. I just have a couple [...]
It’s wicked cold this weekend in Massachusetts so I stayed inside and had some fun with Apache James and Smack (an open source library for communicating with XMPP servers from Jive Software). See, I was looking over this page of Mailet ideas on the Apache James wiki and I saw two different people wanting instant [...]
I spent some quality time with Joshua Bloch this week and by that I mean his book Effective Java. In item number four (the book is organized as a series of fifty items, a format he borrowed from the Effective C++ book by Scott Meyers) he discusses the practice of reusing a single object (instead [...]
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