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Fairfax media – incompetent boobs

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Well I logged into the Fairfax site BrisbaneTimes.com.au this morning for my dose of occasional local newspaper media (the Brisbane Times is really a web-only copy of the SMH with some local content). Wanted to comment on an article; it seemed they changed their login system and my old login didn’t work. That’s OK, I [...]

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High-performance system design by declarative specification

Monday, November 28, 2011

“I want to get from London to New York in 12 minutes.” “Ok, we will have to design and build some sort of ICBM or buy one, that will cost a lot of money. Also, I’m not even sure you can get an ICBM that’s fast enough for that distance. And have we thought about [...]

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Requirement: futuristic

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

So a friend said to me one of his client’s requirements was the system be “futuristic”. Here’s what we built:

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A terrible, terrible Eclipse bug

Thursday, March 10, 2011

I found a massive bug in Eclipse – it has a copy and paste function. In Eclipse’s defence, Intellij IDEA and Netbeans also exhibit identical broken functionality.

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Come back Gavin King, all is forgiven (Spring is the new EJB 2.1)

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

I’ve just spent the past two days trying to make Spring transaction management work with JPA-annotated Hibernate-backed persistence classes that need to have multiple persistence units with transaction propagation REQUIRES_NEW between the two. For a start, the documentation is merely a series of outlines of brief hints. One measly section.The laughably short Spring 3 doco [...]

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Stuff that is just plain wrong, part 1,893,567

Friday, November 5, 2010

Weblogic’s a big, vendor-supported, application server right? And it has advanced clustering features, right? So you’d think it’s clustered JMS implementation is one of the best in the business — after all large enterprise systems often require high capacity and reliable clustered messaging, right? And Weblogic is offered as a solution to those sorts of [...]

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The Ordeal of Installing Oracle Service Bus on a Windows-based developer workstation

Monday, July 12, 2010

This is a genuine installation procedure which I wrote, but you might want to read it for its other values. Overview OSB installation in a development environment consists of a completely separate Weblogic instance and yet another ‘special installation’ of Eclipse. You can’t use existing Eclipse installations. Nor is it recommend to use one of [...]

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Modern management theory, explained

Saturday, June 26, 2010

Oh … now I get it, courtesy of Errol Morris, who made the Oscar winning documentary Fog Of War, among many other excellent films, who explains in this New York Times interview with David Dunning (part 1): DAVID DUNNING: Well, my specialty is decision-making. How well do people make the decisions they have to make [...]

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In those OTHER multiverses, Oracle already bought it for $500mil

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Strange IM conversation came my way the other night, whilst discussing some code a team I led wrote at a previous workplace, I think it highlights some crucial factors Oracle bring to the Enterprise Java World: anon 9:04PM [about that code] crazymcphee 9:05 PM well, it WAS perfect … CRAZY perfect anon 9:06 PM lol… [...]

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The rewrite will be ready shortly

Sunday, February 1, 2009

You might have seen the following cartoon before: It’s from a site called The Project Cartoon. What I didn’t know was the site allows you to use the little cartoons to make your own version. You can caption and re-order the panels. For your amusement, and perhaps your edification, I present “The Rewrite Will Be [...]

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