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Jan 2016

Android App Development Quandary

I have a grand total of one Android application in the Play Store, Cub Tracker. It serves two functions for me: it helps me manage my sons' Cub Scout den, and it gives me a means for experimentation in the mobile realm. For the most part, it has done well for me on both counts for the past few years. I am currently faced with an issue of new functionality (which is mostly irrelevant for this discussion) that has brought up a question in the realm of experimentation. This post is a discussion of my options which will allow me to think out loud, if you will, as well as getting (I hope) some feedback on ...
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Dec 2015

Merry Christmas, 2015

At the end of another busy year, full of stress and grief, it’s my hope and prayer that the true message of Christmas, not "getting along with family", but the birth of the Savior of the world, would settle your hearts, and that True Peace woul...
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5
Nov 2015

Kotlin and CDI

If you’ve been following my blog, you’ve probably noticed that I’ve been spending a lot of time with Kotlin of late. (For the curious, I really like it so far, but I haven’t done just a whole lot with it.) I’ve experimented with writing simple JSF and JAX-RS apps in it, largely to see if I can make it work. With those hurdles cleared, I’m trying something a bit more ambitious: a complete (if basic) Java EE application, written completely in Kotlin. Because I’m a sucker for a bad joke, I’ve dubbed the project KotlinEE. I’m not quite ready to walk through that application yet, but I what I would like to discuss now is an issue I ran into trying to get CDI working w...
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3
Nov 2015

Kotlin-RS

In keeping with theme of "use existing frameworks with Kotlin" and misleading titles, here’s a quick and dirty demonstration of writing JAX-RS applications us...
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29
Oct 2015

Kotlin Faces

There’s a chance that at least some of you saw the blog title and thought: "Ah ha! A Kotlin wrapper/helper for JSF!" and rushed over to check it out. If so, mission accomplished. :) This really isn’t anything that ambitious...
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Sep 2015

Bad Horse!

If you’re a Doctor Horrible fan, here’s something fun and goofy to start your week. No clue how they ...
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30
Jun 2015

An Introduction to Programming with Minecraft at the Oklahoma City JUG

On Monday, July 13, I will be leading the monthly OKC JUG session, whose topic this month is "An Introduction to Programming with Minecraft Mods". We’ll be using a modified version of the curriculum Arun Gupta has developed for this Devoxx4Kids program, with examples taken from the book he and his son wrote, Minecraft Modding with Forge: A Family-Friendly Guide to Building Fun Mo...
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26
Jun 2015

Running IDEA 14 on Java 8 on the Mac

My team at work was having some issues with IDEA and the Checkstyle plugin. Based on the error message, and without actually looking at the JARs, it seemed pretty clear that the issue was a JDK version issue. While I think this issue has been resolved, when I set up my Mac months ago, I was forced to install Java 6 in order to install IDEA, but, apparently, the new version of the Checkstyle plugin was compiled with a newer JDK (as it should be). Whether or not the Java 6 issue still exists with IDEA, you can make IDEA run on Java 8 pretty easily, and I’ll show you ho...
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29
May 2015

Changing the GlassFish Admin Users's Password Programmatically

Recently, in the #glassfish channel on Freenode, a user was having trouble configuring GlassFish in a Docker environment. He was scripting the configuration of the server, but was having trouble setting the admin user’s password, since the change-admin-password command takes input from stdin. Fortunately, there’s REST API for that. This curl command will do what the user needs to do without any need for additi...
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My name is Jason Lee. I am a software developer living in the middle of Oklahoma. I’ve been a professional developer since 1997, using a variety of languages, including Java, Kotlin, C/C++, JavaScript, PHP, Python, Delphi, C#, and even a bit of COBOL and JCL. I currently work for IBM on the WildFly/EAP team, where, among other things, I maintain integrations for some MicroProfile specs, OpenTelemetry, Micrometer, Jakarta Faces, and Bean Validation. (Full resume here. LinkedIn profile)

I am the president of the https://okcjug.org[Oklahoma City Java User Group], and an occasional speaker at the JUG and a variety of technical conferences.

On the personal side, I’m active in my church, and enjoy bass guitar, running, fishing, and a variety of martial arts. I’m also married to a beautiful woman and have two boys, who, thankfully, look like their mother.

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