I've always been a big fan of Jon Udell's InfoWorld column, but now I have an even bigger reason to appreciate Jon! It's also amazing to see what influence some people have. This small mention from Jon has brought me a significant stream of visitors! Thanks, Jon! Hopefully I can return the favor with this [...]
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[BlogEntry] Writing the software to sell your software is a project in itself…
By Lee on Tuesday, May 30th, 2006 | No Comments
I'm in the midst of launching something pretty awesome. Of course, I'm not objective about it. But I think it's going to be a very welcome addition to your toolbox. I can tell you that I love having it when I need it. The thing is, the actual program has been operational for many months. [...]
Read More...[BlogEntry] Software As Genetic Material (Aw, look at the cute puppy dog!)
By Lee on Wednesday, May 24th, 2006 | No Comments
We took Moby hiking last weekend. It doesn't matter how recently he has, er, moved his bowels. When we go on a hike, it seems he's got a second (and sometimes a third) load in storage, saved for just such an occasion. When Moby's done his business on a hike, he has such a look [...]
Read More...[BlogEntry] Is your SVG text in Inkscape invisible in a browser?
Quick Tip If you can plainly see your SVG text in Inkscape, but you can't see it in your browser, try this: Select the text in Inkscape In the Text menu, select Convert to Text Save the document again Refresh your browser I'm not sure what the point is of having the default text be [...]
Read More...[BlogEntry] SOA ain't so bad
By Lee on Tuesday, January 10th, 2006 | No Comments
Having dubbed this blog "JCranky," I can certainly sympathize with Andrew's rant. However, as a drinker and provider of SOA-flavored Kool-Aid™ for one of the top ESB vendors, I feel compelled to defend my wares and the substantial technology behind them. Here are a few things to keep in mind that may be less than [...]
Read More...[BlogEntry] Java the Hut
By Lee on Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005 | No Comments
Working for an integration company has changed my perspective on things. I used to be totally web-centric, focused on AppFuse, Tapestry, Spring, Hibernate, etc. While I still have interest in those things, my horizon has expanded beyond that single application silo. Ruby on Rails interests me a lot, but I keep having fear, uncertainty, and [...]
Read More...[BlogEntry] Getting Chainsaw version 2 to work with log4j
By Lee on Tuesday, June 7th, 2005 | No Comments
Oh, the frustrations of open source. I keep thinking about renaming my blog from JCranky to something less BileBlog-like, but then these kinds of things happen… You (I) innocently download the new version of Chainsaw, thinking that it's an upgrade, only to find that you are (I am) no longer getting logging messages. "This can't [...]
Read More...[BlogEntry] If you're having trouble installing AppFuse 1.8…
By Lee on Wednesday, May 4th, 2005 | No Comments
…all you have to do is edit run.bat or run.sh from the appfuse-installer-1.8 and change the line java -jar software.jar to java -jar appfuse-installer.jar The other funky thing is that when the installation was complete, the installer looked like this: I stared at that a long time before I checked Windows Exploder and realized that [...]
Read More...[BlogEntry] Adding external jars to your AppFuse application
By Lee on Friday, April 29th, 2005 | No Comments
These are the steps required to add a new library to your AppFuse project: Create a new directory under lib to hold your jars. For example, I created C:\projects\appfuseproj\lib\sonic-6.1. Copy your jar or jars into that directory. You can also create subdirectories under your new directory. For example, the lib\hibernate directory contains a lib subdirectory [...]
Read More...[BlogEntry] I had no idea CSS was capable of anything like this
By Lee on Wednesday, April 27th, 2005 | No Comments
This is completely CSS, no graphics, which is very impressive. But this is amazing! (Both links open new windows.)
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