JPA 1.0 Complaints
Recently at work I have been refactoring a project I wrote some time ago to reduce the amount of code. When I initially wrote the program I was just learning the JEE5 stack and had no idea what the difference between lazy/eager loading of relationships was, let alone the concept even existed. Because of my lack of knowledge at the time I wrote a ton of extra code which basically simulated an eager load.
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Tags: Development, Software
Disabling UAC on Vista SP1 Using GPO
For everyone who has upgraded to Vista SP1 and wants to disable UAC through GPO and realized that its no longer offered as a policy, or for administrators who use XP and would like to disable UAC for their Vista users: About 2 months ago I created an ADM script to disable UAC and now have posted it in my Subversion Repository for your convenience.
Tags: Windows
Test Driven Development
Test driven design/development is becoming more common in enterprise programming environments; unfortunately this is not a skill very thoroughly taught in college (if at all). In hopes of becoming a better programmer I have begun to implement the concept of TDD in my projects at and outside of work. However, with this type of development being new to me I have some questions and comments.
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Tags: Agile, C, Development, Java, Testing
The Value of a Masters
Lately I have been torn on whether to pursue my masters degree, it really has its pros and cons, especially being freshly employed. So why exactly am I torn?
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My Professional/Personal Balance
Recently I decided to get back into blogging to help myself keep up to date on new technology. However, there are many topics I would love to write about in addition, relating to life experiences, current events, and much more. So where do you draw the fine line between these topics of personal opinion and your professional image? Does blurring the fine line sometimes help make you more personable? I believe it does.
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Development IDE’s
When I first started developing I took a strong liking to C, a very low level language, and used very simple minimalistic development tools such as VIM for editing my code. When I started working for my current employer as an intern I quickly realized the the standard run of the mill text editor was just not nearly as efficient in programming Java applications as a full fledged IDE, and not knowing much about IDEs in general I opted to use MyEclipse as it was what my coworkers were using.
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Tags: Development, Java, Software
What is Chrome?
What is Chrome (and why does this page look like it)? Chrome is Google’s next generation web browser with many new ideas in hopes of creating a new web experience. I found a theme that resembled the Chrome interface and really liked the simplicity and minimalism of it, which is why my site looks like it. So what special about chrome?
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Going Green
Recently I have been trying to eat more healthy and be more environmentally friendly and have been approached by a few of my friends who have been curious as to why I have made this decision, and asking for some suggestions for their own similar endeavors.In light of April often being considered as health and wellness month and environmental awareness month I figured it was time to provide some answers.
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Tags: Environment, Health, Money
Java JAAS and Active Directory
My employer uses Java for all applications written in house. Recently we have started to switch over to using the JavaEE standard for all new applications. Unfortunately, the LDAP module in the Sun Java System Application Server (or Glassfish) does not always play nicely with Active Directory, in fact most of the time it doesn’t play nice at all. So in my free time, I have developed a JAAS module that seems to work nicely with Active Directory.
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Tags: Development, Java, Windows
Internet Explorer 8: Wrong Again
I feel bad for Microsoft, with the recent popularity flop of Windows Vista. To be completely honest Windows Vista has its flaws, but I use it as it is no different than Windows XP when it came out.In fact it seems Microsoft has kind of had a history of buggy first releases, however they did seem to do something right with Internet Explorer 7.0, and when I saw the beta of version 8.0 I gave them the benefit of the doubt and hopped right it, boy was I wrong.
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