http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/ en-us doug@shoutstudios.com 2008-01-28T11:49:04-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/archives/000399.html I can't claim credit for this, neither can I claim credit for finding it, but I can pass along this tip. When doing a string comparison, save yourself the NULL check by flipping the left and right side of the... 399@http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/ Enterprise Java 2008-01-28T11:49:04-05:00 http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/archives/000278.html In the recent issue of JDJ, there was an advertisement for a performance and testing conference, www.stpcon.com. I presented this to my supervisor, and we started talking about the possibility of other java conferences, such as Java One or the... 278@http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/ Enterprise Java 2005-08-25T08:42:59-05:00 http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/archives/000272.html One of my tasks as my job is to monitor, evaluate, and tune the performance of our large, statewide, system. This has been a tricky endeavour, as I have found that I need to balance usability, with the performance. We... 272@http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/ Enterprise Java 2005-08-05T15:54:39-05:00 http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/archives/000249.html Reporting Application Errors by Email by Sean C. Sullivan -- Even if your application logs an error to a local file, the developer doesn't know there's a problem until a user notices it and sends the log file back. It... 249@http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/ Enterprise Java 2005-04-11T11:39:43-05:00 http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/archives/000243.html Through the company I work for, I have been set up as a contributing author to the JOX project hosted by SourceForge at http://sourceforge.net/projects/jox/. We are using XML to transport request and response data between our presentation tier written in... 243@http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/ Enterprise Java 2005-03-31T19:22:57-05:00 http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/archives/000222.html Today, I ordered a shiny new Sony Ericsson T-637 phone with service through Cingular wireless. I had, and still technically am as of this moment, been using T-Mobile for my cellular/PCS service ever since I was in college and signed... 222@http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/ Toys 2005-01-21T12:25:57-05:00 http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/archives/000220.html After finding my second bug in production code with a NullPointerException being thrown if data is not passed into the bean, I wonder if there is a product out there that will point these out during either development or build... 220@http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/ Enterprise Java 2005-01-14T13:49:00-05:00 http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/archives/000219.html After a bad day at work, I decided to try and get something accomplished. I never really looked into it before, but wanted to get a category based RSS feed working on my MT 2.6 installation so that I can... 219@http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/ Enterprise Java 2005-01-14T13:21:22-05:00 http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/archives/000211.html While talking to a few collegues/friends of mine at work, I was informed that Bruce Eckel puts his books on programming up on the web in HTML format for free download. One of these books, "Thinking in Java" is listed... 211@http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/ Enterprise Java 2004-12-01T11:17:00-05:00 http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/archives/000180.html On another note, I was able the other day to play around with a proof of concept at work related to the caching problems we have been having. Part of the problem is the sheer amount of data we have... 180@http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/ Enterprise Java 2004-07-23T11:10:35-05:00 http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/archives/000179.html Yesterday, Java.Blogs had an intersting post on Aspect Oriented Programming, or AOP. While I have plenty of other new technologies to keep me busy for a long time with some of the side projects I have going, this should prove... 179@http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/ Enterprise Java 2004-07-23T11:09:23-05:00 http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/archives/000170.html While perusing TheServerSide.com, I came across an article on data caching and performance. Since I have been involved with this at work quite a bit lately in our very large scale application, I take every chance I get to read... 170@http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/ Enterprise Java 2004-07-06T13:56:24-05:00 http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/archives/000148.html Lately at work, I have been part of the performance evaluation and recommendation team. It all started when I volunteered to write some PERL scripts to analyze a few of our log files to try and point out some obvious... 148@http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/ Enterprise Java 2004-05-28T09:35:19-05:00 http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/archives/000145.html A few days ago, I was playing around with custom finders in an entity bean and ordering the output, etc. After some research and suggestions from John, I decided to scrap the custom finders and implement a stateless session bean... 145@http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/ Enterprise Java 2004-05-20T21:52:32-05:00 http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/archives/000143.html While working on the website for Tobacco Palace, I ran into an issue with ordering the results of my queries. I am using JBoss 3.2.3 which follows the EJB 2.0 spec. This spec does not allow for ORDER BY clauses... 143@http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/ Enterprise Java 2004-05-15T12:15:02-05:00