Just the other day, I had to deploy some AspectJ code to an app server. I was prepared to go through the usual hoops to get the aspects to deploy properly. Like AspectWerkz and JBoss AOP, you would normally have to put the runtime libraries in the system class path, set some kind of property [...]

I’ve been taking a long look at Maven 2, and while it seems like it’s a really great tool it also seems like there’s a lot missing. My first gripe with Maven is that there is no downloadable documentation that can be read offline (at least that I could find anyway). This is a real [...]

I read an interesting post the other day titled We should learn from Active Record. While Active Record does help facilitate the quick and dirty, it has a high reliance on the database structure. Your code and database layer essentially one in the same and I’m not sure I like this approach. This is especially [...]

You may want to put off that purchase of that Konica-Minolta Maxxum you’ve been eyeing. About a week after Nikon announces that they’ll no longer be making Film cameras, Konica-Minolta announces that they’ll no longer be making cameras! They’ll be handing over their [...]

Nikon issued a press release today which states that “95% of Nikon’s UK business being within the digital area, Nikon Corporation has made the decision to focus management resources on digital cameras in place of film cameras.” The release goes on to say that “Nikon will discontinue production of all lenses for large format cameras [...]

So if you haven’t already heard, Adobe released a public beta of a new app called Lightroom. So far it’s pretty good and beats the hell out of iPhoto. I can’t comment on how it stacks up against Apple’s Appature, but I can say it’s no Photoshop CS2 replacement, It’s definately more of a complimentry [...]

Before I started getting into AOP, I wanted to know what the real differences between AOP implementions. Sure, we all know that AspectJ is a language extension and JBoss AOP can be done in all Java. Ask folks on the JBoss forums give you a JBoss-biased answer. Similarly, some of the IBM Developer Works articles [...]

Last year I got a Saab 9-2x, which is pretty much a Subaru Impreza with a Saab-styled grill. We got the Saab because, at the time, they offered a better lease deal than the Subaru. Over the summer, a pebble hit the windshield resulting in a small crack. Six months later, we’re still waiting on [...]