My miscellaneous ramblings and how-to’s
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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The Idea
After a great suggestion from a colleague I was inspired to create what I think is an under-used utility. That utility is an Instant Messaging Bot. I know they seem dated, and harken back to the days of AIM bots, but in this world of rapid publishing and communications I think they’re an under [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
As part of a project I’m currently working on, I’ve had to integrate a RoR application with another developer’s Java code. At first glance, things looked to be fairly simple as I envisioned a simple Web Service communication between Java and Ruby would be a breeze…not so fast. Getting the two to play [...]