I first heard about Girl Geek Dinners a while ago, and thought it sounded like a great idea. I sent an email to the original organizers, and soon heard back. They had also just heard from Liz Morgan, another woman in the Seattle area, and suggested we join forces to organize a local group. And [...]

We’re using XMLBeans as part of a project. I had a document called EventConfig that had many EventDetails. I needed to find one EventDetails element based on its child element, EventName. Being new to XMLBeans, and in bug fixing mode, I checked the XmlObject API, and saw only that selectPath(String) took a String. I couldn’t [...]

Today we had a brainstorming meeting with the business analyst for one of our major clients. We pitched a wireframe for a workflow addition to the application. The analyst was excited. This fell in line with a meeting she’d had earlier. The main decision there was to replace a large portion of the UI with [...]

The Java Tutorial gives the standard definition of the protected access modifier: The protected modifier specifies that the member can only be accessed within its own package (as with package-private) and, in addition, by a subclass of its class in another package. But what does this mean in practice? I see a lot of confusion [...]