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14 June 2006
ALTERthought Sponsors RailsDay 2006
If there’s one thing that we here at ALTERthought are passionate about – it’s Mackerel. Yeah, the fish. If there’s one other thing, though, it would be sponsoring geek’d-out Rails events.
To that end, ALTERthought has selflessly suspended its efforts to build the world’s largest free-standing Mackerel shrine built completely out of Mac-Minis [...]
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17 April 2006
Use Linux to Recover a Corrupted Windows Drive
This entry was originally posted on an earlier incarnation of this blog. It still seems to have some merit, so I have re-posted it.
So I was the unfortunate victim a harddrive hardware failure. Repeated WindowsXP CHKDSK runs did nothing to fix the problem and I came to the painful realization that I needed a [...]
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2 April 2006
Better jUnit-ing
jUnit has been around for a long time. But there are always better techniques to implement old ways. I have provided below an efficient junit aprroach integrated with DbUnit and Spring with support for transaction and hibernate open session. Significant features are:
Integration with DbUnit: DbUnit puts database into a known state between test runs. Pre-loads [...]
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29 March 2006
Java Puzzler: Thine Stack Overfloweth
THE PROBLEM:
A buddy of mine chatted me up over IM the other day with the following, seemingly simple problem:
He has a class that extends the standard Java 1.4 Exception class (BaseException)
Whenever he catches a thrown BaseException, and tries to print the stacktrace (via BaseException.printStackTrace()) he gets a java.lang.StackOverflow error.
If he calls getCause().printStackTrace() everything is [...]
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24 March 2006
Better Code Automagically, Part 2: Continuous Integration
This post is the second in a series (part1 here) of discussions around mechanisms for increasing code-quality thru the use of automated tools– the ultimate goal being an increase in overall code-quality and a decrease in manual Q&A time.
Lets first talk about the concept of Continuous Integration itself. The idea is pretty straightforward:
Create an automated [...]
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15 March 2006
ALTERthought is hiring: Java Engineer
Java Engineer
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The Java Software Engineer participates as part of a larger team for ALTERthought internal and client-oriented initiatives. He or she helps support ALTERthought’s core value of Technology and Innovation through implementation and refinement of leading and emerging technologies for internal as well as client products/solutions. The Engineer is a well-rounded professional with excellent [...]
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14 March 2006
Better Code Automagically, Part 1: FindBugs
This post is intended to be first in a series (maybe) of discussions around mechanisms for increasing code-quality thru the use of automated processes, such as:
Continuous integration build tools (anthill , cruise control, etc.)
Metric and code auditing (CheckStyle, FindBugs, etc. )
Unit test coverage reporting (clover, cobertura)
The grail here is to explore approaches that can [...]
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14 March 2006
ALTERthought is hiring: .NET Engineer
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ALTERthought has a ground floor opportunity for a .NET software engineer/analyst. This opportunity will allow the candidate to make his or her mark on the organization through diverse responsibilities in groundbreaking internal and client services initiatives. The individual will serve as a key technological leader for complex distributed systems (re)-engineering projects. The Software Engineer/Analyst [...]
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13 March 2006
Access denied error in MySQL
Have you been frustrated with Access denied for user ‘chinnu’@’localhost’ errors even though as root you granted following privileges:
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON MyDb.* to ‘chinnu’@'%’ WITH GRANT OPTION;
While % means any host, you probably did not see the behavior you expected.
MySQL performs access control in two stages. First, it tries to connect you with the [...]
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10 March 2006
Choosing a JMS Provider: Harder than it should be
So I am in the process of evaluating several leading commercial JMS (Java Messaging Service) vendors for recommendation to a client. All of the typical things you might expect are in the hunt as part of the criteria:
Adherence to the JMS specification.
Performance and throughput. (I am using SonicMQ’s benchmarking guide as a basis.)
Scalability
Clustering and reliability
Cost
And [...]
