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Archive for the ‘development’ Category
org.apache.bsf.BSFException: unable to load language
By Lee on Friday, September 5th, 2008 | No Comments
I’m jazzed about creating a JRuby DSL for message manipulation in SonicMQ/Sonic ESB. No time to go into the details right now, but I ran into a problem that I couldn’t find an answer for. Maybe this will help the next poor soul… I was able to run this service on my laptop without any [...]
Read More...Free trial of Maileable
By Lee on Sunday, June 1st, 2008 | No Comments
For years now, I’ve been managing my email, fighting spam, and spotting phishing emails through the use of an email routing system that I developed. The problem with today’s email system is that anyone can put email into your inbox without anything more than your email address. Yes, you can put things like filters, whitelists, and [...]
Read More...Symlinks for Windows
By Lee on Wednesday, October 10th, 2007 | 2 Comments
One of the handiest things I learned at No Fluff Just Stuff this weekend was from Neal Ford, who showed a way to set up soft links (symbolic links, symlinks, it’s all the same idea) in Windows. This allows you to install different versions of JDKs, Tomcat, Groovy, Grails, JRuby, whatever, and use the latest [...]
Read More...One of the coolest things I’ve ever seen in code. Ever.
By Lee on Friday, August 24th, 2007 | No Comments
I went to the Atlanta Java Users Group (AJUG) meeting on Tuesday night. The speaker was Jeff Brown of Object Computing, and the topic was Groovy. I’ve been dabbling with Ruby, Groovy, and JRuby, for quite some time now. (Among other things, I’ve created Ruby and Groovy services for Sonic ESB.) I’ve never been a [...]
Read More...CodeGear (Borland) building a Ruby IDE
By Lee on Thursday, May 24th, 2007 | No Comments
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Read More...Delphi for PHP
By Lee on Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007 | No Comments
I remember when Delphi 1.0 came out. It was what I had been looking for for several years. At last, I could build Windows apps without all the pain. And now, there’s Delphi for PHP. It’s what I’ve been looking for for several years. At last, I can build web apps without all the pain. [...]
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