If you are like me and have seen a ton of languages out there provide web services with a few simple instructions (Perl / PHP / Python), you may have the impression that it should be pretty easy in Java? Couple of lines of code and voila a server. A […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]