:Running Down the Way Up

No post yesterday… I’ll have to make it up today I guess by posting twice.

I’m extremelly interested in figuring out how to integrate scripting languages that run on the JVM to make java application development (in particular web apps) more dynamic.
Stopping and restarting containers to add functionality is something that I can no longer accept. Being able to make changes to functionality without recompiling or repackaging is also something [...]

There is one aspect that is often overlooked when working with an established code base. The meta-framework. The code base for a certain application can consist of many frameworks. For example, Spring, Hibernate + Velocity. However the way these frameworks are used, the internal conventions even the domain model if one exits, plus the other [...]

Yesterday on 43things, I gave some help to a person looking to decide on using an acoustic guitar or an electric guitar to learn how to play the instrument. Being this is one of my “done it” things, I thought what the heck. And so I did.
This morning, on the way to work and on [...]

I’ve decided that if I’m really going to give this blogging thing a good go, I need to set a goal to do so. As such, and with this post I’m making it a goal of mine to post at the very minimum once a day on this blog. Let’s see how this goes.

This past weekend my wife and I had our first party in the new house. It went fairly well if I may say so, and for those of you that were there and happened to be reading this, thanks for coming!
One of the interesting things for me was seeing a cross section of our lives [...]