From the monthly archives:

July 2004

WebLogic Server Administration Best Practices

July 22, 2004

Just found this great article on dev2dev entitled WebLogic Server Administration Best Practices that offers great tips on installation, configuration, domain creation, backup and migration. The article also offers some tips and best practices for tuning JDBC, JMS, EJB, deployment, security, tuning and monitoring. A must read for anyone working with WebLogic – You will [...]

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Scott McNealy – GET OUT!!!

July 18, 2004

It's just sad – Scott McNealy has nearly destroyed Sun and he still just doesn't get it. BusinessWeek has an interview with Scott McNealy in the current issue and they've posted excerpts on their website. In the article entitled Scott McNealy Takes On His Critics, Scott McNealy tries to justify the Microsoft settlement after [...]

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[OT] The Carpenter Family gets a new addition

July 16, 2004

The Carpenter Family got a new addition on Monday, July 12th. After months of major pain and discomfort along with a horrible bout of Preeclampsia, our first daughter was born. Mother and baby are just doing great and I am one very proud and happy dad.

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The Carpenter Family gets a new addition

July 16, 2004

The Carpenter Family got a new addition on Monday, July 12th. After months of major pain and discomfort along with a horrible bout of Preeclampsia, our first daughter was born. Mother and baby are just doing great and I am one very proud and happy dad.

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I love WordPress

July 10, 2004

I love WordPress – I first installed WordPress a few months ago and was impressed with the fact that I was able to install and get my new blog up and running in under 5 minutes. I have been very happy with WordPress since the first install. Since I was still running v1.0.2, I decided [...]

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I love WordPress

July 9, 2004

I love WordPress – I first installed WordPress a few months ago and was impressed with the fact that I was able to install and get my new blog up and running in under 5 minutes. I have been very happy with WordPress since the first install. Since I was still running v1.0.2, I decided [...]

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Inside Class Loaders: Debugging

July 7, 2004

Inside Class Loaders: Debugging by Andreas Schaefer — Andreas Schaefer continues his examination of class loading in Java with a look at what can cause problems in advance class-loading scenarios and how to patch class loaders to help debug the problem.

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Spring in Action, Part 2 by Bruce A. Tate and Justin Gehtland

July 7, 2004

Spring in Action, Part 2 by Bruce A. Tate and Justin Gehtland — Bruce Tate and Justin Gehtland continue where they left off in part one of this two-part series on Spring. This week, the authors of Better, Faster, Lighter Java take you through adding persistence to their Pet Store counter-example, and look at the [...]

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Books I'm currently reading

July 7, 2004

As I've said before, I am a voracious book collector and (usually) reader as well. I love books and could spend hours reading. With a very pregnant wife about to deliver, I've built up quite a backlog and hope to get to most of these books in the next few months. Books I am currently [...]

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Stargate Atlantis

July 6, 2004

Just watched the From Stargate to Atlantis: A SCI FI Lowdown on the SciFI channel and I can't wait for the 8th season of Stargate SG1 along with the new season of Stargate Atlantis. I am a huge fan of anything Scifi and I really really love Stargate and the ensemble cast including Richard Dean [...]

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Programming Jakarta Struts, Second Edition

July 6, 2004

Programming Jakarta Struts, 2nd Edition by Chuck CavanessPaperback: 550 pagesPublisher: O'Reilly & Associates; 2nd edition (June 30, 2004)ISBN: 0596006519
Looks like O'Reilly just shipped the 2nd edition of the awesome Programming Jakarta Struts book written by Chuck Cavaness. I loved the 1st edition and blogged about it last year when I taught my last Struts class.
According [...]

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Working with Hibernate in Eclipse

July 6, 2004

Working with Hibernate in Eclipse by James Elliott — Jim Elliott was curious about whether anyone had written plugins to work with Hibernate in Eclispe, as he'd just finished writing Hibernate: A Developer's Notebook. It turns out there are several such efforts underway. In this article, Jim explores Hibernate Synchronizer–a plugin that automatically updates your [...]

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Books I'm currently reading

July 3, 2004

As I've said before, I am a voracious book collector and (usually) reader as well. I love books and could spend hours reading. With a very pregnant wife about to deliver, I've built up quite a backlog and hope to get to most of these books in the next few months. Books I am currently [...]

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Women are amazing

July 1, 2004

My wife is pregnant with our first child and she is going through major discomfort, pain and she is still hanging in there like a champ. She is suffering from a condition called preeclampsia that is characterized by high blood pressure, swelling, sudden weight gain, and headaches. I've just been a passenger on [...]

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Hibernate: A Developer's Notebook – Book Review

July 1, 2004

Hibernate: A Developer's Notebook by James ElliotPaperback: 192 pagesPublisher: O'Reilly & AssociatesISBN: 0596006969
Hibernate: A Developer's Notebook is the first in the new Developer's Notebook series from O'Reilly. The Developer's Notebook series is a new line of books from O'Reilly that are concise, lab-style guides that have plenty of examples and emphasize practice over theory. [...]

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