http://epmills.com Evan P. Mills' Ramblings Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:33:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Look At Me Shirts has a great take on the recent destruction here in Cincy. Maybe when I get my power back, I'll be able to order a few.   *sigh* http://epmills.com/2008/09/18/note-to-self-its-not-all-misery/ Check out Added Bytes and subscribe to the feeds. http://epmills.com/2008/09/09/source-for-cheatsheets/ Make sure to check out free online Java-related learnig at http://www.javapassion.com. http://epmills.com/2008/07/17/note-to-self-java-passion/ Check out this blog entry for information on comparing popular distributed version control systems. Good links to other related information. http://epmills.com/2008/07/09/note-to-self-comparison-on-dvcs-options/ Note to self: check out this post for public data sets that I could use to develop RIAs. http://epmills.com/2008/06/25/public-data-sets/ Note to self: check out LivePipe. http://epmills.com/2008/06/20/investigate-this-boy/ Note-to-self: Add Prefetch Technologies and Blog o'Matty to my list of feeds. Also, check out Blastwave for OpenSolaris software. http://epmills.com/2008/05/29/solaris-goodness/ I've been coming up to speed on Git and swallowing up every tutorial and blog entry I can find. A few days ago, I ran into Jonathan Rockway's very entertaining blog entry Git Merging by Example.  Great read and very instructive.  But I was particularly amused by Jonathan's quote: I love the ... http://epmills.com/2008/05/16/merge-made-by-octopus/ Note to self: check out AddAll for good values on books, both new and used. http://epmills.com/2008/05/15/books-on-the-cheap/ From the "Huh, well that's cool" department... Today I figured how to run a background process from within a web application that utilizes Spring 2.0 or greater. At first, I investigated all sorts of ways of adding multithreading to a web application before stumbling upon this gem. The key is that ... http://epmills.com/2008/05/01/background-processing-in-a-spring-web-application/