cum grano salis — nobody likes a clever bastard

I have been banging on this project’s view with a few different technologies. I prototyped the thing in ZK, which turned out to be a complete piece of shit after trying to get it to work in a real world scenario. (More on that later.) Now it’s all about JSF. ICEfaces has some pretty neat [...]

I’ve been hunting down bugs all day and getting next to nothing done. After finding that Spring would rather convert a String into a bunch of smaller Strings than let me do my work, I find even more. Fortunately, this one was a cinch.
Needing something to do role-based conditional processing in my JSF pages, I [...]

I’m currently working on a project that has given me the lovely opportunity to revisit the holy hell that is Tomcat. It’s fine and all, but it can be a real bitch to you. So I have a fine mix of JPA 2 (via EclipseLink 2.0.0), Spring 3.0.0, and AspectJ 1.6.6 running on Tomcat 6.0.20. [...]