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Two reasons to prefer Hibernate JPA over EclipseLink on GlassFish
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Tom McQueeney Weblog | Java | 2011-03-28 06:14:36.0 | By tom
Two annoying problems with EclipseLink JPA on GlassFish v3 made working with Hibernate's JPA implementation less problem...
Tom McQueeney Weblog | Java | 2011-03-28 06:14:36.0 | By tom
Two annoying problems with EclipseLink JPA on GlassFish v3 made working with Hibernate's JPA implementation less problem...
Astrogeeks and photographers: Look eastward this weekend
Tom McQueeney Weblog | General | 2011-03-16 21:24:14.0 | By tom
Moonrise on Feb. 28, 2010 The full moon will rise this weekend at nearly 90 degrees azimuth for those in...
Tom McQueeney Weblog | General | 2011-03-16 21:24:14.0 | By tom
Moonrise on Feb. 28, 2010 The full moon will rise this weekend at nearly 90 degrees azimuth for those in...
Working around ddclient's "bad hostname" and "network...
Tom McQueeney Weblog | General | 2010-11-07 13:22:35.0 | By tom
I have had continuing problems with ddclient being able to connect to the network and make an http call to check my cu...
Tom McQueeney Weblog | General | 2010-11-07 13:22:35.0 | By tom
I have had continuing problems with ddclient being able to connect to the network and make an http call to check my cu...
Clojure's inventor and author make a case for the new language
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Tom McQueeney Weblog | Java | 2010-03-18 06:55:00.0 | By tom
Rich Hickey, inventor of the Clojure language, and Stuart Halloway, author of "Programming Clojure," present...
Tom McQueeney Weblog | Java | 2010-03-18 06:55:00.0 | By tom
Rich Hickey, inventor of the Clojure language, and Stuart Halloway, author of "Programming Clojure," present...
The Lost Symbol: Nix It From Your Christmas List
Tom McQueeney Weblog | General | 2009-12-05 21:46:25.0 | By tom
Let me start this review of Dan Brown's latest novel by saying I read Angels & Demons and The Da Vinci Code ...
Tom McQueeney Weblog | General | 2009-12-05 21:46:25.0 | By tom
Let me start this review of Dan Brown's latest novel by saying I read Angels & Demons and The Da Vinci Code ...
Impressed with Manning's marketing push and discounts
Tom McQueeney Weblog | General | 2009-11-24 23:30:45.0 | By tom
For the past few months, tech publisher Manning Publications has impressed me with its marketing push by offering quic...
Tom McQueeney Weblog | General | 2009-11-24 23:30:45.0 | By tom
For the past few months, tech publisher Manning Publications has impressed me with its marketing push by offering quic...
Adding shutdown hooks to a desktop Griffon application
Tom McQueeney Weblog | Java | 2009-09-23 07:53:34.0 | By tom
Technical pride prompted me to write my first Griffon application Tuesday. Griffon is a Groovy-based framework to wr...
Tom McQueeney Weblog | Java | 2009-09-23 07:53:34.0 | By tom
Technical pride prompted me to write my first Griffon application Tuesday. Griffon is a Groovy-based framework to wr...
A pre-dawn visit to Thomas Jefferson for the Cherry Blossom Festival
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Tom McQueeney Weblog | General | 2009-04-04 15:04:28.0 | By tom
Jefferson Memorial at dawn this morning during the D.C. Cherry Blossom Festival The bloom of the Japanese ch...
Tom McQueeney Weblog | General | 2009-04-04 15:04:28.0 | By tom
Jefferson Memorial at dawn this morning during the D.C. Cherry Blossom Festival The bloom of the Japanese ch...
Alfresco Software says freeloading corporations led them to closed-source...
Tom McQueeney Weblog | Java | 2009-04-01 05:59:14.0 | By tom
Alfresco Software said Tuesday it will not release certain new enterprise features of the Alfresco content management ...
Tom McQueeney Weblog | Java | 2009-04-01 05:59:14.0 | By tom
Alfresco Software said Tuesday it will not release certain new enterprise features of the Alfresco content management ...
Installing Groovy from RPM on Fedora
Tom McQueeney Weblog | Java | 2009-03-21 17:11:26.0 | By tom
I installed Groovy 1.6 on Fedora from an RPM as offered on the Groovy download page and immediately got an exceptio...
Tom McQueeney Weblog | Java | 2009-03-21 17:11:26.0 | By tom
I installed Groovy 1.6 on Fedora from an RPM as offered on the Groovy download page and immediately got an exceptio...
How to modify the Alfresco Share page footer
Tom McQueeney Weblog | Java | 2009-03-18 08:18:57.0 | By tom
Share is Alfresco Software's open source collaboration server. It's a Java web application that stands as a free compet...
Tom McQueeney Weblog | Java | 2009-03-18 08:18:57.0 | By tom
Share is Alfresco Software's open source collaboration server. It's a Java web application that stands as a free compet...
Google doesn't trust itself when it comes to spam
Tom McQueeney Weblog | General | 2009-03-12 13:46:01.0 | By tom
I created a Google Alerts to be sent daily to my Google mail account. I received daily emails for a week, then one...
Tom McQueeney Weblog | General | 2009-03-12 13:46:01.0 | By tom
I created a Google Alerts to be sent daily to my Google mail account. I received daily emails for a week, then one...
How to get rid of the Alfresco Labs default page footer
Tom McQueeney Weblog | Java | 2009-03-04 13:01:07.0 | By tom
The web client for the open source Alfresco enterprise content management server ships with a footer that is added ...
Tom McQueeney Weblog | Java | 2009-03-04 13:01:07.0 | By tom
The web client for the open source Alfresco enterprise content management server ships with a footer that is added ...
Weighing risks of storing files in a content management system
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Tom McQueeney Weblog | Java | 2009-02-27 10:29:55.0 | By tom
I was cleaning out a desk drawer last weekend and found a few old 3 1/2 inch floppy disks. The discovery made me realize...
Tom McQueeney Weblog | Java | 2009-02-27 10:29:55.0 | By tom
I was cleaning out a desk drawer last weekend and found a few old 3 1/2 inch floppy disks. The discovery made me realize...
Finally got Tomboy working in Fedora 10
Tom McQueeney Weblog | General | 2009-02-24 20:21:06.0 | By tom
After installing Fedora 10 last month, I finally got the Tomboy note-taking application working. I began using Tomb...
Tom McQueeney Weblog | General | 2009-02-24 20:21:06.0 | By tom
After installing Fedora 10 last month, I finally got the Tomboy note-taking application working. I began using Tomb...
Installing Sun Java JDK 6 Update 12 on Fedora 10
Tom McQueeney Weblog | Java | 2009-02-03 07:27:44.0 | By tom
When I set out to install Sun's latest Java development kit on my newly upgraded Fedora 10 development box, I discover...
Tom McQueeney Weblog | Java | 2009-02-03 07:27:44.0 | By tom
When I set out to install Sun's latest Java development kit on my newly upgraded Fedora 10 development box, I discover...
The terribly misunderstood super()
Tom McQueeney Weblog | Java | 2009-01-13 11:31:38.0 | By tom
For developers new to Java, here's a tip that could make you look more like a ninja coder than colleagues who have bee...
Tom McQueeney Weblog | Java | 2009-01-13 11:31:38.0 | By tom
For developers new to Java, here's a tip that could make you look more like a ninja coder than colleagues who have bee...
Koen Aers jBPM EclipseWorld sneak preview
Tom McQueeney Weblog | Java | 2007-11-08 08:05:00.0 | By tom
Even though Koen Aers from JBoss had to be up early Thursday to give a jBPM presentation at EclipseWorld 2007, ...
Tom McQueeney Weblog | Java | 2007-11-08 08:05:00.0 | By tom
Even though Koen Aers from JBoss had to be up early Thursday to give a jBPM presentation at EclipseWorld 2007, ...
Grails with Jason Rudolph
Tom McQueeney Weblog | Java | 2007-10-11 14:12:38.0 | By tom
Grails committer Jason Rudolph showed off the power of Grails at last night's Northern Virginia Java Users Group ( Nov...
Tom McQueeney Weblog | Java | 2007-10-11 14:12:38.0 | By tom
Grails committer Jason Rudolph showed off the power of Grails at last night's Northern Virginia Java Users Group ( Nov...
Creating a simple rules engine using the Java scripting API
Tom McQueeney Weblog | Java | 2007-09-12 06:49:00.0 | By tom
Part 2 of my IBM developerWorks article, Invoke dynamic languages dynamically , creates a simple rules engine ...
Tom McQueeney Weblog | Java | 2007-09-12 06:49:00.0 | By tom
Part 2 of my IBM developerWorks article, Invoke dynamic languages dynamically , creates a simple rules engine ...
Returning from Ruby or JavaScript called from the Java Scripting API
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Tom McQueeney Weblog | Java | 2007-08-02 06:45:25.0 | By tom
Since the Java Scripting API makes it easy to execute external scripts written in a variety of dynamic languages, I tr...
Tom McQueeney Weblog | Java | 2007-08-02 06:45:25.0 | By tom
Since the Java Scripting API makes it easy to execute external scripts written in a variety of dynamic languages, I tr...
Still using StringBuffer? That's sooo Java 1.4
Tom McQueeney Weblog | Java | 2007-07-17 04:53:07.0 | By tom
Pop quiz: Hashtable is to HashMap as StringBuffer is to ... <fill in the blank> Answer: StringBuilder. ...
Tom McQueeney Weblog | Java | 2007-07-17 04:53:07.0 | By tom
Pop quiz: Hashtable is to HashMap as StringBuffer is to ... <fill in the blank> Answer: StringBuilder. ...
Independence Day in D.C.
Tom McQueeney Weblog | General | 2007-07-05 20:55:28.0 | By tom
Yesterday saw another great celebration on the National Mall in Washington of our nation's declared independence. Two ...
Tom McQueeney Weblog | General | 2007-07-05 20:55:28.0 | By tom
Yesterday saw another great celebration on the National Mall in Washington of our nation's declared independence. Two ...
Eclipse 3.2 JUnit runner gets confused connecting to server?
Tom McQueeney Weblog | Java | 2007-06-26 15:24:22.0 | By tom
I opened an Eclipse project today, ran a unit test, and got a socket exception I'd never seen before. The project was...
Tom McQueeney Weblog | Java | 2007-06-26 15:24:22.0 | By tom
I opened an Eclipse project today, ran a unit test, and got a socket exception I'd never seen before. The project was...
IBM Strikes Out in Second Life
Tom McQueeney Weblog | General | 2007-06-22 09:20:09.0 | By tom
I left the real world yesterday to "attend" a technical briefing in Second Life , hosted by IBM, on wh...
Tom McQueeney Weblog | General | 2007-06-22 09:20:09.0 | By tom
I left the real world yesterday to "attend" a technical briefing in Second Life , hosted by IBM, on wh...
Sun Tech Days in D.C. a Mini JavaOne
Tom McQueeney Weblog | Java | 2007-06-11 06:43:05.0 | By tom
I spent last Thursday at the International Trade Center in Washington attending Sun Tech Days 2007, the last st...
Tom McQueeney Weblog | Java | 2007-06-11 06:43:05.0 | By tom
I spent last Thursday at the International Trade Center in Washington attending Sun Tech Days 2007, the last st...
Josh Bloch's Java puzzlers tonight in D.C.
Tom McQueeney Weblog | Java | 2007-03-27 09:57:37.0 | By tom
I just heard that Joshua Bloch from Google will be in downtown D.C. tonight presenting "Java Puzzlers' Greatest Hi...
Tom McQueeney Weblog | Java | 2007-03-27 09:57:37.0 | By tom
I just heard that Joshua Bloch from Google will be in downtown D.C. tonight presenting "Java Puzzlers' Greatest Hi...
Eclipse gave a surprising left jab while unboxing
Tom McQueeney Weblog | Java | 2007-02-27 22:30:16.0 | By tom
I'm working on a project for a client to integrate an existing web-based mortgage application to work with a large mor...
Tom McQueeney Weblog | Java | 2007-02-27 22:30:16.0 | By tom
I'm working on a project for a client to integrate an existing web-based mortgage application to work with a large mor...
Celebrating the first American in orbit 45 years ago
Tom McQueeney Weblog | General | 2007-02-25 22:10:55.0 | By tom
Last week, NASA and the United States celebrated 45 years of Americans in orbit. On Feb. 20, 1962, an Atlas missil...
Tom McQueeney Weblog | General | 2007-02-25 22:10:55.0 | By tom
Last week, NASA and the United States celebrated 45 years of Americans in orbit. On Feb. 20, 1962, an Atlas missil...
Ajax Architecture with Stuart Halloway
Tom McQueeney Weblog | Java | 2006-11-04 06:51:27.0 | By tom
When should you use Ajax? Whenever you want to create a rich client application with the universal reach of the Interne...
Tom McQueeney Weblog | Java | 2006-11-04 06:51:27.0 | By tom
When should you use Ajax? Whenever you want to create a rich client application with the universal reach of the Interne...
Filling in my No Fluff dance card
Tom McQueeney Weblog | Java | 2006-11-03 07:30:38.0 | By tom
Today begins the fall session of the Northern Virginia Software Symposium put on by No Fluff Just Stuff ( Jay Zimmerma...
Tom McQueeney Weblog | Java | 2006-11-03 07:30:38.0 | By tom
Today begins the fall session of the Northern Virginia Software Symposium put on by No Fluff Just Stuff ( Jay Zimmerma...
java.util.concurrent backport to Java 1.4
Tom McQueeney Weblog | Java | 2006-11-01 21:31:20.0 | By tom
When I blogged in September about using the Java threading classes introduced in Java 1.5, I didn't know a similar ...
Tom McQueeney Weblog | Java | 2006-11-01 21:31:20.0 | By tom
When I blogged in September about using the Java threading classes introduced in Java 1.5, I didn't know a similar ...
Legitimate businesses selling out to spammers
Tom McQueeney Weblog | General | 2006-10-29 21:35:42.0 | By tom
Like most tech geeks, I own multiple domain names and dozens of email addresses. I have configured many of my email se...
Tom McQueeney Weblog | General | 2006-10-29 21:35:42.0 | By tom
Like most tech geeks, I own multiple domain names and dozens of email addresses. I have configured many of my email se...
U.S. Air Force Memorial Weekend
Tom McQueeney Weblog | General | 2006-10-15 15:04:24.0 | By tom
photo by Michel Du Cille/The Washington Post U.S. Air Force Memorial The United States Air Force finally has...
Tom McQueeney Weblog | General | 2006-10-15 15:04:24.0 | By tom
photo by Michel Du Cille/The Washington Post U.S. Air Force Memorial The United States Air Force finally has...
Grady Booch: SOA sold as snake oil
Tom McQueeney Weblog | General | 2006-10-13 11:57:29.0 | By tom
If you have sat through the many sales pitches from companies selling SOA products, which you learn is defined as whate...
Tom McQueeney Weblog | General | 2006-10-13 11:57:29.0 | By tom
If you have sat through the many sales pitches from companies selling SOA products, which you learn is defined as whate...
What Google Did Right: Browser Sync
Tom McQueeney Weblog | General | 2006-10-12 20:18:46.0 | By tom
On Wednesday, I ragged on Google for four of its good-to-terrible services that all could be better. Today I want to pl...
Tom McQueeney Weblog | General | 2006-10-12 20:18:46.0 | By tom
On Wednesday, I ragged on Google for four of its good-to-terrible services that all could be better. Today I want to pl...
Why isn't Google better?
Tom McQueeney Weblog | General | 2006-10-11 11:00:06.0 | By tom
After using Google search for many years and being impressed with its lightening speed, using Google Maps and being imp...
Tom McQueeney Weblog | General | 2006-10-11 11:00:06.0 | By tom
After using Google search for many years and being impressed with its lightening speed, using Google Maps and being imp...
Anonymous fire in D.C. wafts smoke over Capitol
Tom McQueeney Weblog | General | 2006-10-09 21:24:47.0 | By tom
Here's something you don't see everyday: A black cloud of smoke wafting toward the U.S. Capitol. Fire in ...
Tom McQueeney Weblog | General | 2006-10-09 21:24:47.0 | By tom
Here's something you don't see everyday: A black cloud of smoke wafting toward the U.S. Capitol. Fire in ...
Replacing Tomcat's ROOT index.jsp page
Tom McQueeney Weblog | Java | 2006-10-01 21:09:42.0 | By tom
Apache Tomcat comes with a simple ROOT webapp that is nothing more than a precompiled index JSP page. The text o...
Tom McQueeney Weblog | Java | 2006-10-01 21:09:42.0 | By tom
Apache Tomcat comes with a simple ROOT webapp that is nothing more than a precompiled index JSP page. The text o...
Deleting old Confluence backup files
Tom McQueeney Weblog | General | 2006-09-29 13:27:59.0 | By tom
After I installed the Confluence wiki, I discovered I need to do at least one thing to maintain it. By default, ...
Tom McQueeney Weblog | General | 2006-09-29 13:27:59.0 | By tom
After I installed the Confluence wiki, I discovered I need to do at least one thing to maintain it. By default, ...
Concurrency the Java 1.5 way
Tom McQueeney Weblog | Java | 2006-09-26 23:09:11.0 | By tom
I attended a talk tonight on Java concurrency presented by Stuart Halloway at the Northern Virginia JUG that pro...
Tom McQueeney Weblog | Java | 2006-09-26 23:09:11.0 | By tom
I attended a talk tonight on Java concurrency presented by Stuart Halloway at the Northern Virginia JUG that pro...
Stopping Firefox from auto-searching from the address bar
Tom McQueeney Weblog | General | 2006-09-26 12:03:01.0 | By tom
Of the many wonderful features I enjoy in the Mozilla Firefox browser, the feature to automatically perform a Googl...
Tom McQueeney Weblog | General | 2006-09-26 12:03:01.0 | By tom
Of the many wonderful features I enjoy in the Mozilla Firefox browser, the feature to automatically perform a Googl...
JNDI error with Roller weblogger on Fedora Core 5
Tom McQueeney Weblog | Java | 2006-09-24 13:38:23.0 | By tom
While planning my upgrade from Roller 2.1 to 2.3, I ran into an unexpected snag in Tomcat 5.5 running on Fedora Cor...
Tom McQueeney Weblog | Java | 2006-09-24 13:38:23.0 | By tom
While planning my upgrade from Roller 2.1 to 2.3, I ran into an unexpected snag in Tomcat 5.5 running on Fedora Cor...
Atlassian Branches Into CI and SSO
Tom McQueeney Weblog | General | 2006-09-20 15:39:29.0 | By tom
Last night, I attended what was billed as the first-ever Atlassian user-group meeting. Scott Farquhar, one of the found...
Tom McQueeney Weblog | General | 2006-09-20 15:39:29.0 | By tom
Last night, I attended what was billed as the first-ever Atlassian user-group meeting. Scott Farquhar, one of the found...
Subversion Best Practices Notes
Tom McQueeney Weblog | General | 2006-09-19 11:12:18.0 | By tom
These are notes from a webinar on Subversion best practices, conducted Aug. 30, 2006 by CollabNet. Now that I'v...
Tom McQueeney Weblog | General | 2006-09-19 11:12:18.0 | By tom
These are notes from a webinar on Subversion best practices, conducted Aug. 30, 2006 by CollabNet. Now that I'v...
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