In case you missed the announcement, I recently migrated my blog from Wordpress to Awestruct, the static site generation tool written by several JBoss engineers. As can be expected with a tool this new, there were some bumps and bruises along the way, but I managed — with lots of help — to make it to production with my efforts. To be a good open source citizen, then, I thought I.....
Read More ›Last summer, I put up a quick entry about a new way to blog, which I’ve enjoyed using. After suffering through yet another WordPress security breach (which I’ll admit might be partly my fault through how I have my site set up and "maintained"), I’ve decided to take the next logical step and just move the whole thing to Awestruct. Overall, it’s been an enjoyable process, but.....
Read More ›Earlier today, I wrote about a quick and dirty hack I put together to create a very simple editor for AsciiDoc files. While I have no immediate plans to make this a full-featured editor, there’s a part of me that can’t help but hack on it. This evening, I added support for loading and saving files. In fact, I’m using the editor to write this post. :) For those.....
Read More ›As every Android developer knows, application crashes are reported back to Google and can be view in the Play Developer’s Console. This is helpful, but, in my experience, sometimes you don’t get enough context. You also don’t get notifications when crashes are reported. Fortunately, there is a tool, called ACRA, that improves the situation quite a bit. In this post, I’ll give you a brief introduction to.....
Read More ›This morning, I was reading through the Proposed Final Draft for JAX-RS 2.0 specification, when I found a little nugget that could have saved me some work, specificially in initializing subresources. This is kind of sad to admit (though, surely — hopefully — I’m not alone in this :), but I have been initializing subresource manually. For example: public <T> T getSubResource(Class<T>.....
Read More ›In the course of my work, I often find myself writing a script to automate a routine task. Almost invariably, there are cases where I need the script to behave in slightly different fashion, but only occassionally. My early scripts rather crudely used one if after, which is not very elegant. Finally, after tiring of this clumsy approach, I searched for a better way and found one: getopts. In this shortish entry, I’ll.....
Read More ›As some of you may or may not know, I have small Android project, Cub Tracker, that I’ve been working on for quite some time now in my spare time. I’ve been trying to be better about quicker releases, but all the testing for the app is currently manual (and, therefore, hit-and-miss), so updates tend to be a bit slower and very cautious. (For the record, it used to.....
Read More ›For both work and fun, I run Linux. I’m also a Java guy, which poses some interesting challenges, as most Linux distributions have a long, sad tale regarding shipping Java. Things are a bit better, I guess, with OpenJDK, but I’ve always liked running the "real thing", which historically meant the Sun JDK, and now Oracle’s JDK (Note: current employment has no bearing on that choice ; ). If I were.....
Read More ›Merry Christmas! “Do not be afraid; for behold, I bring you good news of great joy which will be for all the people; for today in the city of David there has been born for you a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.” — Luke 2:1-20...
Read More ›Recently, I had to add support for asynchronous REST calls to the GlassFish REST interface to satisfy some customer requirements. In process of doing so, I learned something pretty interesting: while asynchronous REST may mean different things to different people (e.g., I’m pretty sure Atmosphere provides some sort of REST asynchrony, but I’m not sure what UPDATE #1: As noted in the comments, I know next to nothing about Atmosphere.....
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