It took a lot of ferreting out, but I eventually learned that you can put a <version/> tag in your site.xml, and Maven will put the... more»
Just figured out how to get git tab completion working in zsh on a Mac. Turns out that the completion scripts use a bunch of extra git... more»
Steve Yegge's most recent post takes more»
If you are somebody who writes code you probably know that moment when you look at some code you didn’t write, or some code you wrote a... more»
Start your engines kids - the JavaOne 2009 more»
I live in an AT&T-free state, so I have not had access to the cult that is iPhone. But recently, in preparation for AT&T moving... more»
Can Sphinx and foxy fixtures place nicely together? Due to the way Sphinx indexing works, foxy fixtures will often slow down the indexing... more»
I had the more»
One of the techniques I more»
Patrick Muellr has an interesting post about being more»
Today we learned something important, the NTSB announced the more»
Strange enough title.Let's start with a hypothetical conversation between a geeky developer and his much less geeky wife: more»
... Corey Vidal, you have outdone every YouTube video I've ever seen, and I was a hug more»
SpringSource today announced that it has purchased G2One, the folks who have been driving the development of Groovy and Grails. The following... more»
You may have already read about it in the various news outlets and blogs covering the announcement, but if you haven’t I’m excited to spread... more»
This morning, my co-workers and I discovered that Link edIn decided to trim 10% of its employees. The Denver Offi more»
Jurgen Appelo has an ongoing interview series on his blog. He's published a lot of very smart people and I'm honored to squeak in too! ;) more»
I have been setting up a rock-solid server cluster for a client and ran into an interesting issue trying to install Phusion Passenger onto... more»
Consider this Hibernate mapping @Column(name = "qReferenceId") public Long getQReferenceId() { return qReferenceId; more»
At one time not too long ago, I wasn't a big fan of annotations. But then I let my guard down and even started liking them. But now I'm... more»
In late 2006 Neal Ford wrote about Polyglot Programming and predicted more»
In this entry in my “Making Swing Groovy” series, I want to talk about threading issues. Specifically, more»
I wrote a four part article for Java World on creating DSLs in Java and Groovy. For your convenience, I decided to list the links to those... more»
The most popular entry I've written at Near Infinity has been the more»
In a recent discussion interview questions came up, here's my favorite one.To set some context this question is designed to gauge the abst more»
At the Columbus NFJS show held on July 25-27th during one of the BOF sessions Dave Bock, Scott Davis and I discussed unit tests vs functional... more»
Well i am assuming Apress has the most random site in the world at times.But today only they have our recent book, Beginning Groovy & Grai more»
I am pleased to announce that Developing Rich Web Applications with Spring, a three-day bootcamp lead by SpringSource engineers on web... more»
Judging from the list of features that will be included in NetBeans 6.5, more»
Marti nig & Associates Methods & Tools group recentl more»
In this installment we are going to build the Dashboard page of the Tempo application. T more»
In my recent post, I had mentio more»
I'm looking forward to speaking at The Rich Web Experience conference in San Jose next month. The event runs from September 7th through 9th.... more»
We've already looked at one of the two big problems posed by anti DNS pinning on Java applets; because there's rebinding on the applet and... more»
Every time I see a live show at the Denver Botanic more»
InfoQ.com has published my AOP myths and realities talk recorded at a No Fluff Just Stuff conference. InfoQ.com founded by Floyd Marine more»
The 2006 NFJS tour kicked off t more»
One of the enhancements added for JSF 1.2 was update of the MethodExpression signature for the action attribute of h:command{Link,Button}. In... more»
I just posted the JDOM 1.1 release for download. This release includes about 20 improvements and bug fixes. more»
Joseph Faisal Nusairat, author of "Beginning JBoss Seam" and co-author "Beginning Groovy & Grails", is a Java developer who has been working full time in the Columbus Ohio area since 1998, primarily focused on Java development. His career has taken him into a variety of Fortune 500 industries including military applications, data centers, banking, internet security, pharmaceuticals, and insurance. Joseph is particularly fond of open source projects and tries to use as much open source software as possible when working with clients. Joseph is a graduate of Ohio University with dual degrees in Computer Science and Microbiology with a minor in Chemistry. Currently, Joseph works as a Senior Partner at Integrallis Software (www.integrallis.com). In his off-hours he enjoys watching bodybuilding and Broadway musicals, but not at the same time.