Tag Archives: java

Ternary operators in JSP

Posted on October 8, 2008 by mike

Every now and then I come across things I haven’t used before but should have been using.  The ternary operator in JSP is one of them. It makes it so much easier to write out some text based on a … Continue reading →

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Hudson As A Service On Vista

Posted on June 19, 2008 by mike

Installing Hudson as a service on Vista is a little tricker than on XP. Follow my experience to get it to work for you as well. Continue reading →

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Spring Annotations, Spring MVC and an interesting bug in 2.5.1

Posted on March 4, 2008 by mike

I’ve been doing some work in Spring MVC (Spring v2.5.1) and using annotations to see how simple I can keep my XML configuration (pretty small so far) and while coming across a few interesting gotchas that I’ll be describing in … Continue reading →

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My NetBeans 6 Wishlist

Posted on February 19, 2008 by mike

I’ve been using NetBeans 6 for a while now. For the most part I like it. I give it a thumbs up overall and at this point I generally prefer it over Eclipse for general web development. Here, however, is … Continue reading →

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Strange Ant Weirdness

Posted on January 26, 2008 by mike

I got a new desktop for home the other day and I was downloading all my development tools and something strange happened. I downloaded Ant 1.7.0 and unzipped it into my Java tools directory, set my ANT_HOME variable and added … Continue reading →

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A New Gig

Posted on November 22, 2007 by mike

I recently took a new job at kink.com (warning: not safe for work) to manage the software development team.  I had managed a software development group in the past but for the last few years I was really more into … Continue reading →

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Why Maven Drives Me Crazy

Posted on November 21, 2007 by mike

Step 1. Create a maven project with war packaging Step 2. Run mvn eclipse:eclipse Step 3. Open Eclipse. It’s not a dynamic web project. Step 4. Yell. Step 5. Look things up on Google. Step 6. Try some of the … Continue reading →

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Spring 2.5 Released

Posted on November 20, 2007 by mike

It looks like Spring 2.5 was released today. I’ve already been using the annotations for both service definition and web controller definition to greatly reduce the size of my configuration files. These are a great addition and I’m sure that … Continue reading →

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