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Web API FromUrl and FromBody 21 May 2013 | 07:40 am
I've been using ASP.NET Web API for new service my lone .NET customer. They needed to build a most html/js application into the company intranet and they are only interested in Microsoft Technologies ...
An Evernote backed Journal using Vim/Emacs 7 Apr 2013 | 09:51 pm
I journal quite a bit and my holy grail has been using my favorite text editor (Vim or Vim bindings) with Evernote to store the everything in a smart searchable format. Today I stumbled onto a neat li...
Ruth’s Story 18 Feb 2013 | 07:43 pm
Ruth Ann Svihla came into this world screaming and angry on October 30 2011 at 6:57 am. She was and has always been a beautiful, intelligent child that brought us a great deal of joy, but she was born...
Rail 3.1 CI setup with Jenkins, Test Unit & SimpleCov on OS X Lion. 26 Sep 2011 | 04:54 am
I recently had to setup a build server for some rails work I'm doing. Still wanting to support my other projects I setup Jenkins. I ran into several issues. Running Jenkins as a hidden user First I n...
The difficult definition of professional software development 5 Feb 2011 | 11:49 am
Here are some of the contradictory phrases (and a few paraphrases) I've overheard used to define what is "good" and "bad" code. Code should always be well commented Maintainable code has unit tests ...
Java IoC containers and classpath scanning (or what I’ve been looking for from .NET for months) 20 Sep 2010 | 07:01 am
Frustrated with the typical way I saw IoC used in Java where every example I found involved thousands of lines of XML and/or Java code to configure Java beans or components. This is very different th...
Anti-Pattern: Too much of your application is about interacting with external resources 16 Jul 2010 | 12:00 am
Firstly, what am I talking about? Applications that meet some of the following descriptions: Stored procedures with a fair amount of conditional logic or complicated business rules buried in a sub-qu...
Project Management in Java: A Confused .NET Developer’s Perspective 11 Jul 2010 | 05:50 am
When I was first introduced to workplace Java the amount of ways one could define a project appeared to be restrictive, confusing and a point of frequent friction. While those things may all be true, ...
MySQL 5 Performance Tuning Toolkit 2 Jul 2010 | 12:00 am
Recently we’d played with table partitioning and because of the limitations of it and some decisions we’d made a very long time ago we ended up spending a couple of days tracking down hotspots. In the...
Hibernate Connection Pooling: why isn't the default one for production? 27 Jun 2010 | 01:53 am
Hibernate unlike NHibernate comes with a variety of connection pooling options. The three primary ones of which I'm aware are Proxool, Apache DBCP, and c3p0 . I myself have only so far used c3p0 and i...
