Ace's Hardware... article on resin performance... i love resin!

WaferWiki: ConceptsPage will read later...

Welcome to JDOcentral.com - Developer's Community for Java Data Objects... more JDO kung fu...

For JDO, the Time Is Now... hmmnnn... until now am comfy with cmp... hibernate rocks for being lean and mean tho...

Enter The JBoss Matrix... marc fleury's blog?

cleaned a lot of bugs in the new codebase today... new message filters much, much more stable and flexible now! yipee! oras na para yakapin ang malupit kong unan...

bug hunting and unit testing madness... hey its only 1 am... time for some COFFEE!!!

UserFriendly Strip Comments hilarious as always...

ONJava.com: Best Practices for Exception Handling [Nov. 19, 2003]: "public void dataAccessCode(){ try{ ..some code that throws SQLException }catch(SQLException ex){ throw new RuntimeException(ex); } }"

The BileBlog some interesting thoughts here...

FreeBSD GNOME Project: GNOME Development Branch FAQ... 2.6 gnome is awesome! cant wait for the stable version...

Java 2 on FreeBSD... encountered problems regarding pthread issues on FreeBSD 5.2.x... the solution was to replace all references to -lpthread to -lc_r... sadly the latest patchset 6 for jdk1.4.2 doesnt support this... anyway i have a working jdk1.4.2 now ;)

Personality Tests and Community... will get back to this later... for now hackathon is on top priority!

filters doing ok... found a few more bugs... things are more stable now... how my back aches... i think i should request for a better chair... arrgghhh!

fixed the FreeBSD jdk14 port compile error (cannot find -lpthread)... maybe greg lewis didnt see this... i hand edited the vm.make found at /usr/ports/java/jdk14/work/hotspot/build/bsd/makefile directory and replaced -lpthread with -lc_r... now its compiling... with luck ill have an updated jdk1.4.2 which will make it to the live java freebsd cd am cooking...

Convert lbs to kg to lbs... nice util site..

ONLamp.com: Bacula: Cross-Platform Client-Server Backups [Jan. 08, 2004]... arrrggh... my to-read list keeps on growing!!!

Project Evil: The Evil Continues ndis howto... sort of ;)

FreeBSD on Toshiba Satellite 2805-S201 laptop... using project evil's ndis kung-fu... this is wickedly cool!!!

wlan.kewl.org - FAQ... freebsd wlan info... am itching to find a driver for my msi cb54g pcmcia card...

FreeBSD USB home page

Haught.org :: FreeBSD... another great FreeBSD site... has info on wireless setup on a FreeBSD box...

Bacula, the Network Backup Tool for Linux, Unix, and Windows... saved for later reading...

FreeSBIE - Free System Burned In Economy... live freebsd cd... if i have time will create a custom one with java and eclipse on it... kudos to the GUFI team...

been very productive today... built a new filter for sms messages on our sms gateway... version 2 is coming along nicely... will finish the new set of validators tonight...

on another front, been running interix (SFU) cvs package and was insanely happy to have it configured (pserver type) on my main workstation... gotta love the eclipse cvs support... i now have a local cvs aside from the central cvs repo just in case...

TheServerSide.com - Maven Magic... will read this too... later...

A Blow by Blow Agile Project... will read this later...

EJB Design Guidelines... found a better EJBHomeFactory implementation... this one supports local interfaces which is what i deal with most of the time...

EJB best practices... good reference to common EJB questions...

i particularly like the EJBHomeFactory concept...

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Best practices in EJB exception handling... good article on ejb exception handling... am trying to google an article i saw a long ago discussing the evils of just doing a print stack trace when an exception is thrown... i had it as a bookmark on the old pheonix firebird browser and now i cant find it... bloggin a link is a far better than bookmarking it wit a browser... score 1 for link blogging ;)

was able to confirm the bad ram chip of my degatto thru a sofware called memtest86 i think? what a relief! borrowed a ram chip and sent the bad ram chip back to degatto vendor...

somethin tells me i should try installing the freebsd 5.2 again... maybe things would be better now that i have good working ram chip ;)

trying to practice defensive coding... been reading a lot about exception handling in java lately... the C/C++ exception handling that i was used to doesnt apply to java unfortunately...

btw, was able to get the viplugin to work via the update method... just installing the downloadable tarball just didnt work...

viPlugin now works on my eclipse m7... happy days are here again... my hands are aching for coding without vi... navigation thru arrow keys is downright awkward...

now if could get the quantumdb plugin to work... also need to find time to learn how to compile lomboz from source so i could tweak its default templates... lomboz inserting jonas xdoclet tags adds clutter to my already obfuscated java code ;)...

EJB Adventures -> EJB finder methods are case sensitive!

Lomboz M7 annoyance... using the add ejb to module modifies xdoclet.xml... previously lomboz for the 2.1.1 would add to ejbs.xml instead... also every add ejb to module modifies the build.properties file... tsk tsk tsk...

Pinoy techies conquer Europe... food for thought... the working habbit of a typical pinoy techie...

makes me remember my brief stint in singapore... gotta love that place...

Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex... hilarious stuff... gotten from migs lj site... am glad am not superman... getting laid becomes insanely complicated if your the man of steel...

Firefox Extensions... i have to say this FIREFOX ROCKS!!! mouse gestures is friggin awesome! this is by far the best browser on the planet!

Fabrique another interesting product from jetbrains, makers of uber cool java ide called intellij idea... man this russians are quite something... the programmers in this group are top notch and very creative... the omea project headed by dmitry jemorov of the same company is also interesting as well...

for now am sticking with eclipse as far java ide's goes, its ehem *free* and quite usable with good help from the wide array of plugins available for it... long time java gurus however say intellij idea wins hands down as the best java ide out in the market today...

but currently am used to the eclipse way of doing things... funny since intellij idea (eap version) was the first java ide i tried for a while when i was learning java (aside from vi of course ;))...

"AT CNMI=1,2,0,1,0" init string... will also look into this... currently using new message indication "AT CNMI=1,2,0,0,0" as the default init string...

Kannel 1.2.1 User's Guide... will read this later...

edhand.com: Java Example #1: Struts with Hibernate Java Example... a simple straightforward guide to a hello world struts-hibernate-mysql java app...

New 3-D effect could be a bright spot for Sun... this is fascinating stuff... i remember doing graphics during college years and how i would rock my brains to understand low level graphics... i still remember my blit blit functions... sigh, those were the days... assumptions that i would be doing graphic games when i graduate... john carmack is my idol way back then, and i guess even until now...

sigh, what am i doing? i still have 38.8 temp with a really bad cold to boot and here am i blogging and hacking happy code...

man, this is computer tech addiction... siguro, if i suddenly stop, am bound to experience withdrawal symptoms...

browsing down lone_geek's blog... and ahhh, there it is... trouble with rpms, etc etc...

me thinks, am sticking with freebsd!

further down on migs techscene... Lone Geek has some interesting points against the use of freebsd... my opinion however is that the guy has been a linux user and that probably is his comfort zone...

me, am no os zealot... but am tend to be biased against freebsd, maybe its my comfort zone ;)

to date, i still use freebsd for most things except on this degatto due to the wifi-card issue... i had come to admire the rock solid feel of the os as well as the easy to use ports collection... to date it runs all the java dev tools and apps *i* need to get the work done... production and qa servers are quite happy serving java apps and they are all based on freebsd...

i do think linux is a great os with pretty much support for the new hardware coming out today... but in general i hate that theres a a lot of incompatible distros and the way the whole file system is arranged... in freebsd you can pretty much expect things to be consistent (dirs and files)... consistency is great especially when it comes to overall management of a system...

FreeBSD, the power to serve!

migs is running Pinoy Tech Scene, aimed perhaps to be a one stop shop for pinoy tech blogs... cool idea... am glad that there are pinoys who had the time? energy to do this kind of things...

also added comment utility to this blog using comment this...

i upgraded the desktop to freebsd 5-current and switched on the ULE scheduler... things do seem a bit faster now in the 5.2 series... got to upgrade the java 1.4.1 to java 1.4.2 one of this days... eclipse also needs to be upgraded 2.1 to 2.1.2... as well as the rest of the java dev tools on this desktop...

anyway the major freebsd install showstopper is this -> MSI CB54G which doesnt have a freebsd compatible driver as of now... the device however works fine with windows and its pretty much a bang for the buck at a price of P2,900.00 at PC-OUTLET Glorietta... sad, because i still can do dialup using an old pcmcia modem from the old HP omnibook which works great with freebsd 4.x series before... going full freebsd on the degatto would mean not being able to use the wlan card, hence the decision to use windows 2003 trial version instead...

windows services for unix brings the shell tcsh, vi and perl so am half happy with this box right now...

just noticed this now, windows 2003 detects the modem as Lucent windmodem... i wonder... will this work with the ltmdm port?

apparently my degatto uses PCTel Winmodem which as of now i cant seem to find a freebsd driver... am usually on a dialup when am home so this is a *need* for me... btw, am currently using windows 2003 trial for now... i have resigned to installing freebsd on the degatto for now...

Extension Room rocks! Firefox is the browser to beat... btw, same goes to thunderbird mail client... go mozilla!

correction on my previous post... removing the fwe driver module doesnt cut, i have to disable the firewire device via the bios... posted my question regarding the winmodem on the freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org mailling list..

am trying to find my old pcmcia modem... speed is 33.6 i guess... that one worked flawlessly under freebsd 4.x series...

found the cause of the lockup... the bfe driver is conflicting with the fwe driver... learned by trial and error... had to recompile the kernel not to include the ethernet firewire driver... oks lang, as i dont even have a firewire device for now... so far hadnt had luck with the sis winmodem using the ltmdm and mwave port... wireless arriving hope it works fine... still wasnt able to test the digicam-usb and memory card reader...

MSI wireless card supposed to arrive tommorow... hope it runs on freebsd using the ath driver...

sound works using the stock snd_ich module... kldload sure is handy...

darn!!! doing a make yeilds an Error code 1, in the tcp_output.c... should cvsup again...

whew! finally was able to copy the latest sys... i hope this has a better bfe driver... though i cant seem to find any article related to bfe causing to crash in a degatto... this means am the only one stupid/brave enough to try FreeBSD 5.2 on a degatto...

tsk tsk... am getting bzip errors when untarring the nero burned cd... this is weird and downright frustrating...

FreeBSD wifi-ipsec guide... hmmnn... a nice way to secure a wireless connection...

also noticed that java port is now using 1.4.2 and patch-level 6... hope this compiles nicely... but before that i should solve the broadcom issue first!

otoh, at least XFree86 was working fine using the sis driver... i experimented with the stock gnome of freebsd 5.2 and it sure was a lot faster than the previous ones... also noticed that even root (/) label can use UFS2 now...

FreeBSD has undergone a LOT of changes (for the better) since i first used it (2.x era)... still the best free unix out there...

tsk tsk tsk... the FreeBSD 5.2 install is not going well with the degatto... everytime i bring the broadcom ethernet up the machine dies... i need another machine to get the recent source, burn it to a cd and recompile the kernel... hope this solves the problem somehow because am aching to go full bsd on this machine... for now, dual boot is still my friend, sigh...

Apple - PowerBook G4... tadannn... this beauty is always on the top of my dreamlist...

Acer's Ferrari Notebook nice to have... adding this to my dreamlist...

Serious flaws in bluetooth security lead to disclosure of personal data... this is serious stuff... elsewhere i have read that *the* phone company already admitted this flaw...

btw, ed dumbhill has an interesting app with regards to bluetooth... that is registering your friend's bluetooth devices and associating it with FOAF or your address book and have the app monitor/scan the area... youll then be notified by the app that your friend or boss is in the area (assuming both have bluetooth enabled device registered in the app)... nice to use in conferences... planet gnome sure helps in aggregating blogs of some of the brightest open source developers nowadays... gnome rocks!

25 gig of data sure takes a long time to complete... both ends operating at ethernet 100 speed via a crossover cable (no hub/switch)... feeling sleepy...

been meaning to attend the pinoyjug-projects meeting tonite... very near to our office... but sigh, there's still a lot of things needing my urgent attention... would be able to help out tho... just cant attend the meetings for now...

wonder if when will be the first hackathon here in the philippines... ala openbsd hackathon were a bunch of geeks meet and hack opensource happy code...

also been thinking why there are not many (actually haven't met any) active open source developer in the truest sense in the philippines... maybe due to practical reasons that better do good first and be productive in a day job than live the life of true open source dev and be paid for doing cool stuff... wonder if there are open source companies here too... hmmnn... the closest thing i can think of is the ASTI DOST people... though not a commercial entity people here are paid to do cools stuff, purely research that may or may not have commercial value... i hope the people here do "enjoy" what they are doing... the hungry programmers society, hmmnnn...

been listening to some blues music while typing this... the harmonica, the guitar riffs.... nice soothing music...

oras na para bumalik sa aking kama at sa malupit kong unan... will leave moby (laptop) and wolverine (desktop/server/etc) to finish the backup routine... got to add a larger capacity hard drive, two identical ones and a raid card to my wishlist...

i wonder, who on earth would be on his right mind to waste his time reading this blog? and why do i blog? come to think of it, i blog because i feel like blogging... to spill the contents of the room inside my mind... practically, should be doing this often to have some sort of e-diary for tracking back things... kind of a remembrance agent... dashboard comes into mind... that project is certainly an itch i want to scratch... certainly if a had the luxury of time... ahhhhhhh... the mind of the married man...

one more thing, should i be reading stuffs for grammar... one thing am sure of i suck into doing grammatically correct (obviously have a lot of spelling mistakes too, but that might be forgiven because more often than not my fingers do fly on the keyboard)... should search google for writing styles too... prose and poetry... poetry, poetry... i used to write non-sense poems... back in circa 1998 got addicted to chatting as well... that was the inquirer chat room where i met some people really good at writing poetry that it inspired me to try writing one as well... hope i had a way to get those poems back.... no matter how corny they were...

whoa! this is my very first LONG post...

whoa! scp keeps on getting disconnected... hmmnn... ping doesn't work... the connection is lost... ifconfig reveals the interface is still active... something fishy here...

just posting A Brief Introduction to IoC so that i would be reminded to read it some other time.

also, here i am, backing up my laptop on my freebsd desktop box... du -sh * reveals i have been lugging around 4.5 gigs of music... the thing is there's that funny tendency to just keep things on the drive even if i seldom use it... the pack rat in me...

Cgisecurity.com: Cross Site Scripting questions and answers. Got to keep this in mind. Got to keep this in mind in case am struck with web paranoia...

busy re-organizing the servers here at work... production and qa servers remain freebsd based... am trying out on another machine windows 2003 enterprise edition... microsoft has a trial download good for 180 days (6 months if my math is right)... am contemplating on reformatting my laptop...

other news, we are having a hard time now that we have no household help... hope we find one soon... the tricky part is finding a good and honest one thats within our budget...

tips on how to be a Good java Citizen . nice to keep this in mind.

gotta to love my degatto! its a joy to use... the keyboards are really nice and comfy... i recently bought an altec lansing headset and its a higly recommendable product... my only gripe is that the audio driver sometimes causes the machine to hang... i'll try to install the trial version windows 2003 this weekend and see if its more stable... if not for the devices on this machine, i'll be sticking to freebsd...

the ejb deploy and debug cycle is little by little starting to annoy me... gotta love ejb cmp/cmr, but how i wish there's some work around to its deploy/debug cycle... also it takes a while for the container to generate its own ejb classes...

rant--- the chino roces avenue here in makati had its guts spilling literally... the amount of dust i had to go through is really helping my asthma... is there no way to create pre-fabricated roads? adding insult to injury is the traffic which never failed to annoy me... i guess its time to buy a car and practice driving again... or maybe i should ask our government to some hazard pay or something... but nonetheless this sucks!

Slashdot was down... 503 service unavailable... the best post in years!

mind of the married man again tonight! gotta love this series...

been busy with work (what else is new?)... anyway, setting the postgres to output sql via debug_print_query=true helps tremendously in EJB CMP/CMR development...

found the cause of a nasty bug in the SMSManager module am making... it seems postgres acts funny when youre querying and NOT closing your jdbc connection... especially if youre doing it non-stop... am using it to query if there's new data on the queue... hmmn... at least its ok now after re-programming the module to avoid the polling algorithm...

tonkatsu addiction... the carnivore in me cant help but get addicted to this (japanese?) food... the nearby kitaro restaurant is the one to blame...

ahhh... to blog...

been watching the hbo "mind of a married man" series... boy, was it funny and the same time contains real situations a married man could face... albeit, has the same flavor as the sex and the city series...

been reading Newbie FAQ - Apache Struts to learn more about struts... i dunno if its just me but i really dont see the point of having a framework like this... maybe i just hate jsp? IMHO xsl+servlet+persistance(ejb/hibernate) should be much much simpler and better with xml used in between...

onwards with java... the excitement is still there... coding fun... but i also want to explore the .net when i have time...

gavin king rocks! the more i read about hibernate the more i want to use it on a real project... i still have some few good points in favor of ejb, but for non-web apps i think hibernate is the way to go...

A Case Against EJB article on javaranch. somehow sucks! because why the hell did they create ejb in the first place. sigh... but i think the real reason is after having a blast learning the ejb path and finally getting real comfortable with cmp now all of a sudden articles are coming up discussing the against the use of ejb... even rick hightower whose articles inspired me to pursue cmp seems to be steering away from cmp/cmr nowadays... as well as this guy...

am still frustrated i cant use resin-xdoclet.jar together with lomboz to handle @resin-ejb tags. but am really beginning to like ejb cmp 2.x. lets see where this goes.

found some eraserheads audio bits at the net. brings back some good old memories. i miss playing the electric guitar. sigh i wish i had a computer back then and those awesome downloadable guitar effects softwares. maybe i would have experimented more. but then the generic distortion was already providing a ton of fun.

still cant figure out how to configure xdoclet to dispable generating the and tag... i had to manually remove them or run a unix script (tr -d). resin doesnt doesnt like those tags.

still i dont seem to find any doc on configuring lomboz to use the resin xdoclet jar instead... hmmmnnn...

busy busy busy... what else is new? lots and lots of stuff to do!

i had been using lomboz extensively for the past few months to aid in developing j2ee app. one needs to learn some basic xdoclet (aop) to take full advantage of its features. anyway am back from a long vacation in bicol. year 2004 the battle for middle-earth philippines continues. election is coming, sigh...

the next question is: what do i give my beloved wife and baby this Christmas aside from all the love that i can give? Gift buying is not for the faint of heart... hmmmnnnn....

whew! my last blog was nov 15... time REALLY flies nowadays... got the main infrastructure to be stable and reliable on the project i am currently working on... but oh yeah, still a TON of work to do... on the otherside its the christmas season... lets not forget that the real meaning of christmas is to remember and celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ...

geez... again, again... lots of things to do and yet so little time...

bought an asus degatto 15000 a couple of weeks ago under company loan... its not as portable as a powerbook but it does withstand compiling every now and then while at the same time running an mp3 player plus a whole slew of office apps... it took some time to get accustomed to the windows environment again... but as soon as i have no need to run those legacy c++ builder app that am maintaining i might format it back to freebsd again... i had it run freebsd for the first week and it runs quite fine and stable... btw, i had the machine replaced twice already due to a factory defect on the lcd (the first one had two burnt pixel in it and the latter had only one)... nevertheless its a pretty damn good work machine and the lcd certainly eases the strain on ones eyes as opposed to those crt based monitors...

couldnt help but get fascinated with my baby... everyday there's always something new that she would do... so kulit and so so so cute... a few days ago she was really upset that the all four goldfish that we bought died... hmmmnn... i think its time to save for a digital cam to capture this everyday miracle... thank you God for bringing baby to our life...

making huge progress with the j2ee app am doing... this wouldnt be possible without tools like eclipse, quantum and lomboz... i find them indispensable for doing fairly complicated applications...

blogging again... hopefully i can keep on posting non-sense text more often... settling on a new job... hopefully the start of new and wonderful things... very challenging projects... whew! very very very exciting!!!

long time no posts... busy as a bee... still pushing thru with learning java and targeting j2ee technologies... so far so good, am an eclipse convert now... its way way faster than intellij idea on freebsd 5.x...

basically it seems i have the components i need to go full throttle with j2ee... got the hang of servlets and the http get/post methods... need to read more about ejb's.... xalan seems to fit right into the application framework i'm developing... focus, focus and focus!!! i hope santa grants me powerbook g4 even at this time of the year... it would greatly increase my motivation!!! here's to wishful thinking...

Haven't posted in a while... am buried deep into a mountain of work... Hay buhay...

bioinformatics Developing Bioinformatics Computer Skills: Chapter 1: Biology in the Computer Age has been of keen interest to me lately. genome hacking is uber cool and highly regret not listening well enough during those chemistry and biology classes. it's such a fascinating area where computers can be of tremendous help. unfortunately my lack of a fairly deep background in some aspect of molecular biology will likely make me "run into brick walls too often". lets see where this goes...

IntelliJ Community . SimpleUML seems to be a good modeling tool... havent tested it yet, but based on the user comments it seems a handy companion to java development.