Kalesa Transit

man without a cam

The Canon 350D is undergoing sensor replacement surgery due to this annoying horizontal banding problems right smack at the center. If post processed with photoshop's unsharp mask this problem is accentuated and can be visibly seen as white lines running across the entire frame. This only happens at apertures 3 and below and iso 400 and above, so you would need a lens like the nifty fifty (Canon 50mm 1.8) to check if your sensor also exhibits the same problem.

Fortunately, the unit has local warranty. And with the kind help of tekgik at pipho was able to escalate the problem to a very helpful Canon exec. Else it might take till december for the unit's sensor to be replaced instead of a promised mid november timeframe.




shutternox
- missing the sound of a clicking shutter...

How Much Is My Blog Worth

My blog is worth $4,516.32.
How much is your blog worth?

wooooot! $4K! Thats worth a 5D, a 24-70mm and trip to HK with the family. :D :D :D

Aspect, oh Aspect...

Not all is peachy at aspectj land.

If you are using hibernate, you are in for a nasty circular dependency surprise once you inject an object/service/dao to your domain object which has a hibernate session factory injected via spring. The session factory object tries to load your entity/domain, which will be intercepted with aspectj and try to configure using your spring configuration, which will again call on session factory....

The solution is including an unsaved-value="null" into your primary class (use xdoclet to make your life easy).

Am currently using load time weaving using the AJDT tool. And its a bit slow on bookah wookah. A much nicer/lightweight approach is to mock your objects for unit testing and use ajc on the final jar build.

Is it domain dependency injection worth the trouble? It depends, but it truly helps make your model more object oriented. Makes mapping meatspace problems easier. You could treat your domain object just like a real object.


devnox
- binding aspects to the jar output...

Allergic to annotations?

If you are like me, still allergic to annotations, but would like to inject stuff to your domain objects to keep them from becoming anemic, you cant rely on the spring docs (ATM) to give you a more simple explanation on using AspectJ for domain injection. The problem is magnified if your only use of aspects is for domain injection and nothing else (K.I.S.S. philosophy).

There is another way. You still need to download the usual AspectJ installer and the eclipse AJDT. Then create an aspectj project with a class like the code below.


package com.mobileindie.spring.utils;

import org.springframework.beans.factory.aspectj.AbstractBeanConfigurerAspect;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.wiring.ClassNameBeanWiringInfoResolver;

public aspect DomainObjectConfiguration extends AbstractBeanConfigurerAspect {

public DomainObjectConfiguration() {
setBeanWiringInfoResolver(new ClassNameBeanWiringInfoResolver());
}

// the creation of a new bean (any object in the domain model)
protected pointcut beanCreation(Object beanInstance) :
initialization(com.mobileindie.domains..new(..)) &&
this(beanInstance);

}


Take note of the initialization line, this is where you define which objects you would like to inject your dependencies whenever a new instance is called. This also assumes wire by prototype mode. But the beans are configured just like a normal bean in your spring application context xml.

devnox
- ano nga ba ang aspect kung meron kang aspect?

Apple - MacBook Pro

Core 2 Duo based MacBook Pro just out!

The time has come to drool again. Imagine the boost in productivity with that machine. A core 2 duo compiling my java apps! If the current crop macbook can cut my compile time in half, imagine the speed on this sweet bugger.

Back to G4 reality.

macnox
- dreaming ang drooling...

The Aspects Blog: Tips for using Eclipse effectively

Aha!

I had been using eclipse for quite a while and didn't know that there is such an option such as Fast Views, which really helps reclaim much needed screen state on my 1024x768 resolution challenged bookah wookah.

Just right click on the title bar of the view and select the Fast View. It minimizes your view to a single icon on the bottom (default). But you can place it either on the left or right portion depending on your preference.

dev nox
- hopping around...

Alapaap

iPhoto Diet 3.1 - VersionTracker

Woot! Just what I need!

Need to swap the larger drive soon tho. With barely 1 gig free disk space, things are slowin. Can't give up both my music and photo collection either. Wonder if those shops are oven on tuesday...

XStream

POJO to XML? Check. XML to POJO? Check.

Yummy clean XML generation... Whats not to love?

Spread the love...

devnox
-- still buried in the xslt regime.

Self portrait fun!

At the risk of exposing my vanity, and the limits of my creativity, my self portrait version 1...

Resized original image.


Post processed, bronzed, 50 year old shed-my-boy-next-door-image look.


I have to admit, I will still look dashing 20 years from now. Hehehehe...

samoht.com: SpringViz

SpringViz + GraphViz = Springy-fied Diagram Titilations

Spread the love...


devnox
-- buried deep in the xslt regime...

Hands-on with the Treo 680 - Engadget

And the new Treo 680 is out!

Oh well, still no wifi or confirmation of WiFi support. No 3G either.

In the Philippines, more and more people are getting hooked on using their 3G handsets as wireless conduit for internet access. Not surprising tho, since Smart 10pesos per 30mins 3G/GPRS is spot on (Globe, take a hint). At that rate, you would think twice subscribing to WiFi access like Airborne etc. I mean, you can get a prepaid smart sim and have prepaid internet access anywhere that there is a Smart signal. Speed is a bit sluggish if you are not on 3G (dial-up speed), since 3G doesn't cover the whole archipelago yet. When you are on 3G however and using a data cable, speed is somewhere between a dial-up and a low grade broadband connection. But you sure can't beat the convenience and the decent connection rate. +1 for Smart.

Globe is still stuck on the per kb pricing. Whilst handy and practical for instant messaging and quick email checking on your handset, quite unpractical if you plan to use it together with your lappy-tappy for in-the-middle-of-nowhere internet access.

Back on topic, the new Treo (or even the current Treo line) is a match for Smart's data rates. On the other hand, they should have at least included a WiFi (or at least a Wifi option) and 3G chip in there.

Oh well...

Google Maps for Treo

Shiny!

Although, the Philippines is limited to satellite view. No street level info yet.

Location, location, location...


treonox
- the future is mobile...

Finally...

After what seems like eternity, 2 days to be exact. I finally saw the login screen.

Thats after migrating from the old acegi 0.8x to acegi 1.x. Same concepts, different naming conventions, some bean reconfigurations. After which, I thought, why not update the spring libraries as well (circa 2005 libraries)? and why not upgrade to Hibernate3 as well? I think I accelerated the growth of my white hairs a bit. And thats coming from bed loving flu a week back.

All in all the Hibernate2 to Hibernate3 sucks the most.

Oh well...

Guardian Unlimited Business | | Google nets YouTube in $1.65bn takeover

Oh syet! $1.6B!

Lucky duo.

Necessities

Need to swap my 80G external hdisk to the 40G that comes with bookah. With only 2G space left, its noticeably affecting performance once the swap kicks in. That would mean a day of downtime tho, re-installing the day to day apps.

And oh, am down with the flu. Should have taken the flu shot together with the kids.

Spring 2.0!

Just noticed this now. Woot! Spring me baby!

I ditched liferay for the current project. Its nice, but unbearably slow on bookah (iBook G4), even with resin's JVM mem config cranked to the maximum. String beans is better and fits resin and glassfish like a glove. Will probably just portalize (JSR 168) the app on the next iteration. For now liferay doesn't cut it for my G4 powerpc portable dev machine, and I have no means to upgrade to a dual core macbook yet.

Post typhoon / typhoon post

Rojan
Originally uploaded by nocs.

No electricity,
nothing to do.
A camera in hand,
what do you do?

Capture the expressions around the candle of course!

This is the real purpose of my DSLR, capturing time thru the lens. Am difinitely my daughters number one fan! Next task is to print this 8x10 and find a good frame. :D

Tamron 17-50mm f/2.8 XR Di II Lens Review

My dream lens for the 350D. The Canon 17-55mm f/2.8 IS would be great if not for its "L" like price. I like the kit lens, but its a pain to use it when the sun is out, and I hate flash.

Santa, oh Santa...

Hmmmmmnnn...


shutternox
- bitten by the photography bug