Flex and Java, no Marriages are Perfect

Friday, February 29th, 2008

My responses to Flex and Java – A Perfect Technological Marriage, section by section Intro: "so you've been a java developer..."  then "... JavaScript".  Java and JavaScript, two different things.  (Acknowledged implicitly in section 1) Flex will be familiar to a Java developer. It will be familiar to a JavaScript web developer.  ...

Unicode in Action

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

Today on JavaRanch I saw the following: Yes, those are Hebrew comments in Java code.

in the wild: extra-syntacticular

Friday, January 25th, 2008

Are annotations extra-syntacticular?

Why isn’t Groovy enough?

Friday, January 11th, 2008

The things you see asked in a technical context that would be quite humorous for an outsider looking over your shoulder.

debugging through Java

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

Chased a bug down today, a simple one really. But first I had to load in the source code for the hibernate persistence (i was trekking through PersistentSet). Then I had to dig up the Java 1.5 (5.0?) source from the Apple developer site so I could chase ...

Exception of the Day:

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

This was my favorite exception that was thrown at me today: javax.persistence.PersistenceException: org.hibernate.MappingException: Could not determine type for: java.util.List, for columns: [org.hibernate.mapping.Column(otherNames)] at org.hibernate.ejb.Ejb3Configuration.buildEntityManagerFactory(Ejb3Configuration.java:720) The type was very clearly stated as List<PersonName> otherNames. I'm sure there's either something obvious I'm missing, or it's broken. Regardless it will surely cost me hours ...