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 [...]
I’ve seen several programmers struggle with a similar question. They create a collection of some sort, and add items to it in a loop. When they finish the loop and try to use the collection (or list, or array, or set, or map) it looks like every single object in the collection is the same [...]
This article on Making Small Commits lead me to think about when to commit and when to branch a code base. Branching is the black art of version control, and anyone who has tried it at least once has probably had the nightmare that arises from having to merge code back in. It’s an art [...]
This post on the JavaRanch Big Moose Saloon led me to fire up Eclipse and write some test code. The question is basically how can you use the ability to map a parent bean as part of a bean definition in Spring. Let’s look at three classes and see how they can be mapped using [...]
I signed up for Twitter way back in the day when picking a short name (smd) was important because most people I knew were still using it for the intended SMS purpose. Like so many other new services, I more or less forgot about it, occasionally checking back when someone mentioned it. In the past [...]
We had a very fruitful. frank conversation with the business analyst for the main project I’ve been working on for the last two years. We discovered a lot of the pain points for users and now know there’s concrete things we can do in the next sprint or two to really help them out. But [...]
I quite like the Microsoft Membership Framework for handling membership roles, authentication, and security resources in ASP.NET applications. It’s easy to create the initial user login and management framework for a new application, then swap in a more sophisticated Provider as needed. For my current project, we have a new requirement to allow logins against [...]
