I’m currently working on a project involved with using Apache Cayenne, a pretty lightweight ORM (object relationship mapping framework). So far I have been very impressed with its ease of use over other framework such as Hibernate and the minimalistic approach it takes to the mapping. Configuration files are used […]
Great article at Joey Hess’s blog that apparently demonstrates that the Palm Pre periodically uploads GPS coordinates for the current user, along with applications used and application crash logs. Seems to be a bit of a security concern if these phones where used in a corporate environment.
I had small issue recently in that the Netbeans 6.7 database explorer was timing out just trying to connect to my production database. Apparently the Mysql server needs to respond back within a few mili-seconds and there are no configuration settings in Netbeans to increase this timeout. Our production database […]
Here is a snippet of code that I wish I had when I needed to write a small routine to output a PHP RSS feed. RSS Feeds are XML-like so they need to be carefully crafted. 1.) Setup the main header of the rss feed. Remember to carefully escape all […]
There is a very interesting discussion on my favorite news site, Slashdot (Link), about a developer trying to submit a fix to an open source project and not having the maintainer respond. While this is unlikely to happen in a very vocal and active os community such as Apache or […]
Twitter suffered a one-two punch today as they were both DDOSed and targetted as a vector for a new Koobface virus payload.
With the advent of HTML 5.0 and its support in such modern browsers as Firefox 3.5, Safari 4, Google Chrome(new betas) and Opera, the entire dynamic display framework provided in both Flash and Silverlight, becomes almost a moot point. What I like about the possibility, is that it creates an […]
Great article from a great blog today: Oracle’s purchase of Sun went on hold while the DoJ continues its review. Last Friday, Daniel Wall, a lawyer at Latham & Watkin representing Oracle, said that “we were almost able to resolve everything before the Second Request deadline. All that’s left is […]
Perl is one of my absolute favorite languages to prototype in. While very easy to model complex object structures, the syntax of Perl Hashes can get a bit tricky to remember. This is just a quick “Get Started” guide that I hope will be useful to other developers.
While working on a prototyping project for a customer, I was having problems “updating” existing placemarks in Google Earth that had been created by a simple Network Link file. Granted I was writing a custom web server to server KML data, but it was not immediately clear why my KML […]
