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.....
Read More ›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 would be yours. Merry Christmas!...
Read More ›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.....
Read More ›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 using Kotlin. For those that read my Kotlin Faces post, the pom.xml for the project will look very familiar: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance.....
Read More ›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. Sorry. :) At JavaOne this week, I spent a good deal of time talk to Hadi Hariri, Developer Advocacy Team Lead at JetBrains, about their Kotlin language. With my long background in.....
Read More ›If you’re a Doctor Horrible fan, here’s something fun and goofy to start your week. No clue how they did it, but it’s hilarious. :) (h/t to my brother) $ traceroute -m 255 bad.horse traceroute to bad.horse (162.252.205.157), 255 hops max, 52 byte packets 1 172.23.195.1 (172.23.195.1) 1.863 ms 1.193 ms 8.432 ms 2 172.23.....
Read More ›I recently came across an interesting piece of code at work: private static final DateFormat DATE_FORMAT = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd"); What struck me as odd was the private qualifier and that the fact that SimpleDateFormat is not thread-safe. Is the private some odd attempt to work around concurrency issues, or was thread safety just overlooked? That led me to this question: Is a private static still one instance per JVM, or does the.....
Read More ›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 Mods in Java. Here is the announcement sent to.....
Read More ›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.....
Read More ›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 additional input: curl -X POST.....
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