For some time now, I have been using awestruct to power my blog, and, for the most part, I’ve been happy. However, I have found, especially on the Mac, the Ruby-based environment more difficult to setup than I would like. While I have solved this problem before, it presented itself once again when I was issued a Mac upon joining NetSuite. I can, of course, muddle through it, but I’m.....
Read More ›As more and more of our applications move into "the cloud", multi-tenancy has become a pretty big thing these days. In a nutshell, "multi-tenancy" means handling multiple customers data using, say, a single server. This concept scales, of course, to clusters, etc., but the concept is the same: a bunch of people’s data all mixed together in one big bucket. The problem, then, for the development team is isolating one customer.....
Read More ›To all of my readers, I wish you all a very Merry Christmas. My hope, as always, is that even in the busyness and the hustle of the Christmas season, you will find the peace and joy of God brought to us so many years ago in the birth of the Christ child. Christmas Time Again by Smalltown Poets...
Read More ›I recently received a copy of RESTful Java Patterns and Best Practices, by Bhakti Mehta for review. Here are my thoughts on the book. Bhakti Mehta is a former coworker of mine from Sun/Oracle. We both worked on the GlassFish project, though not on the same team. RESTful Java Patterns and Best Practices is a short book, covering many topics. If I had to pick one main issue, that would be this: it felt.....
Read More ›Yesterday, at the OKC JUG, I presented on the topic of Contract-first REST API development with RAML. This post is a rough blogification of that discussion. For those of you who were at the meeting, the preamble to the source demo (introduction, background, options discussion, etc) have been not been reproduced here. tl;dr: You can find the demo source here and play around with it. Introduction RAML is a specification for describing REST.....
Read More ›As so many of my friends and peers have done before me, it’s time to use that admittedly overplayed Douglas Adams quote and announce my departure from Oracle. I joined Sun Microsystems in July of 2008 as a member of the GlassFish team, working primarily on the Administration Console. Over time, I would add REST to my work load, which has been my primary responsibility for the past few years. I’ve.....
Read More ›I’ve been toying with using DropWizard as my… deployment platform for a personal project, but I need/want JAX-RS 2 and CDI, which is a problem for the the stable DW. There is a branch that is migrating to JAX-RS 2 (and Jersey 2.9), and it sort of works, but trying a simple injection is causing a failure I can’t quite figure out: Caused by: A.....
Read More ›Carl Dea, this time with the help of Mark Heckler, Gerrit Grunwald, José Pereda, and Sean Phillips, recently published an updated and greatly expanded introductory work on JavaFX, with both the title and content updated to reflect the updates in the JDK and library. tl;dr: A solid introduction with a plethora of usable examples. You can purchase it here. To start with, let’s take a quick glance at the table of contents.....
Read More ›I have a personal LiveJournal blog that I’d like to migrate to Awestruct. Unfortunately, LiveJournal’s export tool is really limited, allowing the export of only one month at a time. There are tools to work around that, but the only ones I’ve seen require Windows, which rules me out. In typical geek fashion, then, I wrote my own tool, ljexport, a very quick-and-dirty JavaFX 8 application. All.....
Read More ›I’ve been tinkering with a couple of different JavaFX projects for a while now. Due to other commitments, they’ve been largely ignored recently, but I made some time this weekend to return to them. Since I last looked at them, Java 8, and, thus, JavaFX 8, have been release, so I decided to see how the tooling in NetBeans has changed to stay apace with the development of the libraries. While.....
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