I've created this blog to catalog software ideas, code examples and everything in between. I've been in the industry for over 3 years and have worked on a variety of projects from Identity and Access Management, to Web Application Security, to Java/Ruby application development.

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Upgrading a large RoR Project from 1.2.6 to 2.0.2

This evening while upgrading a large Ruby on Rails application that I’ve been working on for the past year and a half, I ran into some issues upgrading to 2.0.2.  As you may know actionwebservice has been ousted from rails in favor of REST.  For those of us that depend on using SOAP for interoperability [...]

Filed under:OS X, RoR

Using the OpenSessionInViewInterceptor for Spring + Hibernate3

If you’re like me and have written Spring web applications using Hibernate for persistence, you’ve probably seen this error when using FetchType.LAZY in your @OneToMany annotation.
failed to lazily initialize a collection of role:
your.Class.assocation no session or session was closed
If you are using lazy loading rather than [...]

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Filed under:Java, Software

Spring, Hibernate, and Sitemesh

This week at work I’ve had the luxury of getting to sit down and write a sample application using a few of my favorite tools: Spring, and Hibernate-Annotations. New to this equation has been Sitemesh. I’ve been using Tiles for quite a while and have felt very comfortable with it, but at the [...]

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Filed under:Java, Software