I have spent about the past week looking at the JGoodies Binding source code to see what makes it tick as to better understand how I could make advised POJOs work with JGoodies. Since JGoodies used reflection to ensure that a given bean supports bound properties, the advised POJOs can pass the check without [...]

This is perhaps the best song, ever. On the surface, this song sounds like something that a knucklehead, who drives Chevy pickup with a decal of Calvin urinating on a Ford logo stuck to the back window, might enjoy. However, once you get some insight as to what the song is about, it might [...]

I’m one of those folks who’s starting to find that iPhoto kinda blows. With my old 800Mhz TiBook, iPhoto has gotten so slow that it’s nearly unusable. Since I now have a decent PC complete with a media card reader and fat 200GB drive, I started looking at some Photo management software for Windows. So [...]

While playing around with the idea of introducing the JGoodies Model into my existing POJOs, I ran into a few problems. I decided that a good place to start would be by leveraging the GOFObservable aspect found on the JBoss Wiki. Unfortunately this aspect won’t do what I need out of the box since it [...]

I came across a similar problem that this fellow encountered when attempting to find a way bind POJOs in Hibernate to a Swing UI. I had developed several web apps using Hibernate with much success and recently, I have been exploring using Swing and Hibernate by extending one of my prior projects. In general, the [...]

So yesterday I had a spook which landed me in the ER. Unfortunately, the ER does not operate as efficiently as it could have. See had I actually been dying, I would have missed JoLo cooking Ropa Vieja on Ellen. Of course this was a re-run according to the Mrs.
The highlight my stay had [...]

And that would be sugar free apple juice. I figured I’d try one of these this morning thinking that this was juice without the extra corn syrup. It was one of those rare moments where I actually felt okay about drinking a “diet” beverage since I didn’t see any of the artificial sweetener brand labels [...]

A lot of folks who don’t know enough about AOP (Aspect Oriented Programming) feel that they can achieve the same results by using the decorator pattern. While AOP is similar in concept, there is a lot more that AOP can solve that a decorator pattern would be hard pressed to do. The GOF Decorator pattern [...]

After looking at a bunch of photo-blog software, I finally decided on PixelPost. This was the only thing I could find that can kind of integrate with WordPress. When I say “kind of”, I mean it has a way of showing my latest photo post over on the right. Well, it works anyway. You [...]