words on sand

We use JBossWS CXF for a heavily utilised enterprise system. It links into spring to pick up and execute beans. We have …

Cleaning up a bunch of code to reduce object instantiations got me thinking about the webservice layer. We are using …

Yesterday, I mentioned a problem that I've been having with GNOME 3 on Ubuntu 11.10.

Essentially what happens is that …

I am usually working on a good half a dozen things at any given time and this means that I usually have a good ten or …

Sometimes there is a need to execute a long running update statement. This update statement might be modifying millions …

I remember a time,
Not that long ago,
To be driven by misery,
by sorrow and pain.

Walking a world covered in snow,
A …

Swimming around gently,
for what seemed like an eternity,
in what was but a moment,
in her big brown eyes.

Time, with …

The thoughts that fill us daily
Are the stone, the rocks
The pavement, the roads.

These roads we pave,
Sometimes with …

There was once a time,
when words flowed,
like a river, yearning for the sea.
simple words conveyed great meaning.

Words …

Registering a Bean within JMX (at least in JBoss) is very straightforward. It requires an interface with attributes …