http://www.supercodepoet.com Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:11:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So I have been listening all over the blogosphere, TWIT and even sports talk radio about the wonderful world of Twitter. I admit that I have followed Twitter since it was released but I have never really found the utility behind it. I just didn't "get it." I am not ... http://www.supercodepoet.com/?p=224 For the past month I have been working with some great developers to develop an application for the iPhone and iPod Touch. This has been a great experience and I have learned a ton. After the grueling process of learning something totally different than my normal development path, BorrowMe finally ... http://www.supercodepoet.com/?p=223 What do you think of this common sense plan to jump start the economy? After some feedback I will tell you who’s plan this is. Common Sense Plan: INSURANCE Insure the subprime bonds/mortgages with an underlying FHA-type insurance. Government-insured ... http://www.supercodepoet.com/?p=218 Here is just a quicky for a problem I was having trying to use the latest Hibernate in a project. I needed to setup Hibernate and HSQL in my pom.xml file so the project would build. I Googled around and could not find the correct answer. I tried the JBoss ... http://www.supercodepoet.com/?p=214 In general a DSL, domain specific language, is a language built to attack a specific problem domain and the lexicon of that language matches the problem domain. Huh?! What?! Is that even English?! In a nutshell a DSL is a language that maps to a very specific problem and the ... http://www.supercodepoet.com/?p=213 I just got out of a session about taking the Red Pill - Groovy and Meta-programming. This session was flat out awesome! The speaker was excellent and his demonstrations were impressive. In my group at work we have been building applications with Groovy for about two months and I have ... http://www.supercodepoet.com/?p=212 So I am at JavaOne 2008 and had a great time listening to the Day One keynote/general session. Sun had some entertaining demos and the speakers were good. There were some very interesting messages they were trying push: Java + You - This is the main ... http://www.supercodepoet.com/?p=211 When using variables, either global or scope, in a BPEL process you have to make sure you initialize them with a value before use or an exception will be thrown. You can do this easily with an <assign> tag during the execution of the process. Yet, what if you want ... http://www.supercodepoet.com/?p=208 I was trying to deploy my maven plug-in to the internal repository and was having a little bit of trouble. I could not get my plug-in to deploy properly because of 'Permission denied" errors. This was easily solved by deploying to the file path of the repo server instead of ... http://www.supercodepoet.com/?p=207 "It's a formidable scent... It stings the nostrils. In a good way." --- I recently had issues setting a dependency to Ant 1.7.0 for a project I was developing. The default local repository for Maven 2 is located at ~/.m2/repository. This resolves in Windows  to C:\Document and Settings\{username}\.m2\repository.  ... http://www.supercodepoet.com/?p=206