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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Ruby Connection Notifier

Lately I’ve been spending a lot of time at coffee shops in the morning, and because of that have spent a lot of time on wireless networks that are not exactly trustworthy. I always thought it would be nice to get a little notification on incoming established tcp/udp connections. Just to know. [...]

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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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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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Project in the works

Well, I was able to spend some time this weekend to get my OpenBSD firewall back in action after a major HDD catastrophe. After getting my internal network back in order, I’ve decided to begin work on a few projects I’ve been thinking about.
The first project involves the use of Growl, the notification system [...]

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