“Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.” - Walter Lippmann (1889 - 1974)
I have always considered the induction process used in companies a joke when applied to technical employees, especially to software developers.
Getting the new guys and gals to learn and follow procedures such as purchase requests or others related to the internals […]

As OC4J has some drawbacks, here are some tips on porting Spring Framework 2+ web applications.
1. Forget about XML Schema, use DTD’s
As I was about to touch the first base, after throwing my exploded WAR in j2ee applications, OC4J started complaining about XML issues. This is what I mean:

javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException: Unable to validate using XSD: […]

I’ve started work on The Software Wish List so now I can say for sure that it will really happen.
The domain is up, you can head over to http://www.softwarewishlist.net/ and have a look.
Depending on how busy I am, how much I’ll be off to other stuff and how much time I dedicate to other projects, […]

What about a place where you can post your software wishes? Interested? Keep reading!
The other day I was thinking about dedicating some of my time to improve some piece of software (didn’t really matter what), just to give something back (yes, a weird concept).
The starting point
To kick-off the process of fulfilling my goal, I started […]

It’s a known fact: I like maven.
It improves some aspects of the development process but it also has a lot of drawbacks.
One of these drawbacks comes directly from maven’s online distributed repository architecture and can make your build process unbearable and worst of all non-reproducible.
The usage of maven assumes the presence of all required repositories […]