TweetBufferI have been wanting to preset my Google searches in Chrome and Firefox to only search previous year and not use safe-search. I can across a simple plugin that works for both Chrome Dev Channel 20.0.1123.4 and Firefox 12 and came across this plugin: Google (Past Year, No SafeSearch) (google.com) by Robert Ciaccio [Review] http://mycroft.mozdev.org/search-engines.html?name=Google+%28Past+Year%2C+No+SafeSearch%29 Hope you [...]
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Java float precision changes when unexpectedly up-casting to double
TweetBufferI ran across a little gotcha today where a float value being inserted into another object container (JSONObject) was not holding the precision of the original value. The JSONObject actually takes a double not a float, and I overlooked the up-casting initially until I started unit testing. (have to love unit tests!) here is a print [...]
READ MORE »Pushed Spring Core Certification Demos to Github and published site docs
TweetBufferI have been working on my Spring Core certification exam preparation by creating several demo projects that help cover each of the outlined objectives for the exam. I wanted to publish the code on github and it can be found, watched and forked: https://github.com/mickknutson/SpringCertification I also wanted to publish the site documentation as well and [...]
READ MORE »Gradle 1.0-milestone-8 variable scoping with multi-module project
TweetBufferI have been very frustrated by Gradle and variable scoping in a multi-module project. I have wasted countless hours trying to follow examples that simply do not work as stated, and having limited examples for the type of multi-module project that I wanted to create. Link to this post!
READ MORE »Gradle repositories syntax changed: Cause: You must specify a URL for a Maven repository
TweetBufferI have been fighting with Gradle (gradle-1.0-milestone-7) for over a day and am fairly frustrated, especially seeing what the solution ended up being. Link to this post!
READ MORE »Now is a time for CHANGE, not more hope that never comes!
TweetBufferImage everyone from the occupy [anyplace]. So those are the 99% huh? I think Ron Paul is the ONLY person that is NOT part of the 1% everyone is so unhappy about! If we really want to stand together as the 99%… then stand for one of you own! Stand for freedom! Stand for change, [...]
READ MORE »Tomcat 5.5 and Tomcat 6 connector option enableLookups not defaulting to true
TweetBufferI have been working on an issue where HttpServletRequest.getHostName() always return the IP address, instead of the host name. The Tomcat 5.5 and Tomcat 6 documentation states enableLookups is set to true by default. Link to this post!
READ MORE »Review: Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
TweetBufferFor anyone who has any drive in their life, you should read/listen to this book. There is a little bit of Steve in each of us, but he was able to will the good and the bad in a single focused direction to truly make a dent in the universe. I was drawn to this [...]
READ MORE »Review: Camel in Action
TweetBufferI performed a technical review on the book, and the first thing I did was open the source code and run through the examples. Each of the examples was well documented, thorough and all had unit tests. Combine this with very detailed history, theory and practical application of the Camel framework, you end up with [...]
READ MORE »Mapping Mongodb ISODate to Spring Roo Entity
TweetBufferI have been inserting log4j entries into a mongodb database and each entry has been given an ISODate timestamp: Link to this post!
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