ok... on the coding front... was able to manage having the backend buildable via the CLI (command line interpreter or a shell etc)... was able to do cheesy unit testing because everything is now accessible even without an EJB CMP/CMR container... sweet :)... spring also literally separates the layers so all in all everything is much more flexible now... the next task is to remove resin dependencies so that i can make this thing work on suns free application server...

this face inspires me to do the imposible, reach for higher goals, and brings hope on this lowly geek to face the formidable challenges of today and tommorow... and last but not hte least, never fails to make me smile and laugh... ahhh the simple joys of being a father... am a ROJAN fanatic!!!

just to recap on what works on the degatto running on gentoo linux...

clie peg-tj37 works! i suggest to stick with copy from pda option for gnome-pilot tho. mounting usb-mass storage devices worked for me without a hitch, both the digicam and clie memsticks are recognized as /dev/sda1 devices... sound works nicely as well as playing dvd's and vcd's etc via totem... rhythmbox takes care of streaming audio... the msi cb54g wireless lan card works via the ndiswrapper... ok, back to work... will get back on this latter...

all in all i can everything "Mostly Works" (TM) ;)

Mischiefblog ? Hibernate and Spring: Lessons Learned... funny i cant find anything mentioning aopalliance.jar on the springframework.org... oh well... i spent the better wee hours this morning why my downloading spring package doesnt have it... :(

i seriously need to transform this schema to a graphical one... will search eclipse plugins for one... a simple one that shows each table and its relationships would suffice... but since dialup land translates literally to world wide wait, i better have a handful of those 3-in-1 coffee ready...

ok... hibernate stuff now buildable via the cli... but am still using the libs that came with lomboz... next step is to integrate spring stuff to the build.xml.... also do an emerge xdoclet, emerge ant on the side...

am going to approach this project with a bit more maturity this time... Ant and xdoclet to allow things to be buildable even on the CLI... with luck this is gonna pay off in the long run... and hopefully increase my family time sched... i miss playing with my dear rojan... ahhhhhhhh... the trade-offs of 14-16hrs working habbits... am an obsessive compulsive and i just wont admit it... doing things that i like is soooooooo addicting... am struggling to schedule things properly, or rojan might stop winking on me. and that, me really thinks, can slice my heart to pieces...

from this point onward... its hackathon time! i have to rewrite the ENTIRE backend and have it ready by monday! my picture somewhere on the top right makes sense, me thinks...

image test, my favorite coffee mug!

am tired of ejb cmp/cmr... after successfully having a working project based on it, time has come that its ugly heads are starting to sprout like crazy... the time consuming cycle of container deployment is too much to ask for a super hectic schedule bound mortal like me... more on this later... for now am sticking to spring+hibernate and would dip into jdo as well... sigh...

Portrait Illustration Maker.... probably one of the coolest site nowadays... fun!

naivete

sigh, found some old weezer mp3... one of the few bands i really like, i hope i could play the guitar like i used to... the sweater song undone
song brings back memories of those naive younger years when weezer and
nirvana and a local band like the eraserheads used to make music that
comes from the bottom of their adolescent/post-adolescent hearts...

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Sensible Stuff... my big not so pretty sis blog is up! hope she could keeps on blogging...

had a hard time configuring hibernate synchronizer... after digging into the docs and googling insanely for an answer, i was able to pinpoint the problem... it apparently uses velocity with default settings of writing its velocity.log to /... of course this is not permissible! here's to unjarring and editing the default velocity properties files...

sigh...

Gentoo Linux ... awright, have to admit... am a gentoonite now... an alter ego to be more exact... i still a die hard bsd fanatics for servers... but for an opensource laptop os, am a gentoo linux convert now...

it still doesnt hang!!! hmmmnnnn............

funny... my freebsdized degatto is not freezing for a good 3 hours now... hmmnnnn.... maybe it could sense its about to be replaced by gentoo... hehehhee...

Gentoo Linux... this linux distro is the closest thing to a freebsd distro with a similar ports collection feature... after several system freeze whenever i load X windows (both XFree86 and Xorg) its safe to assume that freebsd is not going to be my workstation os (its a default for servers tho :))... after searching the net i found out that the acpi is really not yet stable thats why its causing havoc on some systems... unfortunately my degatto is one of those systems...

ok... hope this works... wish me luck as i am rebooting with the gentoo installer now...

cheers!

rant... been a bonafide recipient of very bad customer service... this telco is really one of the finest example of what customer service should NOT be! first of all i reported the stolen cellphone and sim to have it blocked... complied with their requirements and even had the sim replaced... all is well except THEY WOULD not re enable the replacement sim because of incurred charges during the time the phone was reported as STOLEN... they also had a habit of giving phone numbers that either ring indefinitely or insanely busy... oh well all the while i thought they are "smart" people willing to give the outmost professional customer service... oh well...