I was wondering what book to pick for Spring?There seems to be 4 books on shelves now: Professional Java Development with the Spring Framework from Wrox, by Rod Johnson et al (Read his previous book that started Spring). Spring in Action from Manning, By Craig Walls et al. Spring Live from Sourcebeat, by Matt Raible (I’m a fan of...
I want to have one of those “Time Cameras” I once read about in one of the comic books (Mickey Mouse) :-). Living in a cultural cross roads country where many cultures have met, shared, collided or died is definitely exotic. The daily trip to work (45 min ride) involves passing through many old neighborhoods of the city.There, ONCE...
An impressive quote from Gartner: “Open source software is a catalyst that will restructure the industry, producing higher-quality software at lower cost…it will revolutionize software markets by moving revenue streams to services and support and away from license fees – Gartner 2005” Source: Simulabs
Great news off of Matt’s blog.It looks like he’s dedicating more time to Appfuse and Spring Live (not official yet) 🙂 Just hope no changes to Appfuse license. Update: Matt said that Appfuse would stay free.
After struggling with some old Clipper database files (.dbf) for hours trying to find a suitable client to query the data, I accidentally found that the people at OpenOffice have done a great job including a special SDBC driver (Star Database Connectivity) that connects to those old files (Along with other JDBC, MySQL, ADO Datasources). Although I’m still trying...
It looks like there’s a relation between application developers and classical music composers 🙂 I’ve haven’t any info to tie up both, but after listening to some of my old favorites, it’s becoming clearer. Many composers have had compositions that resembles the number of decently developed apps in ones life. A musical composition resembles a software project with a...
I’ve been looking for a decent tool for HTML Data Mining, (aka web-based data mining, aka screen scraping) with no real success.I wanted to extract data from some 350+ HTML files and upload them into a DB. Sounded like a thing that a sourceforge application would do… BUT, after spending a couple of days around, looks like a solution...
I finally was able to avoid the temptation of NOT writing on this blog 🙂 Spending too many hours staring at a monitor and working my fingers around a keyboard for a an approaching release has made it more difficult just to WANT to be around any form of technology 🙂 But, here I am again. I’ve been wanting...
I’m still playing with this blog’s style , so this is work in progress.
It might be an old trick, but, it is nice to know that I can change the background image without the need to use javascaript.Here’s how