thoughthaus

Good read about what polymorphism is.

Some things that I don’t know bother me that I don’t know them. The isolation level of a transaction is one of those things. I don’t have to think about it very often but it seems like something I should always keep in mind. Well here is a good summary of what […]

IBM and BEA got together to write a spec for a few things. I noticed this a while back on the server side. Of interest to me as of late is the stuff about work managers and timers. There are times when you need cron in a J2EE app. I […]

Today is the day that Whole Foods is opening in Omaha. Cheryl and I are really excited about having another cool grocer here in town. I’m hoping there will be some good pricing wars between them and Wild Oats. My wife is an excellent cook. She also has a passion for […]

We have this application at work that uses sockets to talk to the client’s backend system. They don’t allow access to this backend system from our office so development is kind of painful. We had to trip out our code to use fake responses from the backend system which we capture in files. […]

I just won this book, Java Testing Patterns, from my Java User Group meeting last night. Thanks Andy!

So I’ve heard all the “hype” about Spring and IOC and how that helps you test stuff because you can isolate stuff from dependences. So I want to test my app with out refactoring my whole architecure. My app uses struts and classic *cough* data access objects. The DAOs use JNDI to […]

I really appreciated the personal transparency of Venkat’s post about traveling too much. I especially enjoy Venkat’s talks. I remember coming back from NFJS in Des Moines bummed that I couldn’t spend the next 3 weeks coding day and night in all the cool new ways I’d heard about at the conference. […]

I love music. I love picking apart songs, isolating sounds and guessing at instrumentations. But sometimes I just get sick of it and I take a break. Yesterday I broke a fast from music that seems to have lasted an age. I was so missing music I could even stand to listen […]