WHEN TECHNOLOGY CAUSES MORE PROBLEMS THAN IT SOLVES

“Healthcare companies today are solving the medical problems that our technological society has created. Diabetes, heart disease, and obesity. The cure isn’t more technology and medicine…the cure is that these people need a reason to live.”

DOWNLOAD MAVEN SETTINGS FROM NEXUS REPOSITORY

mvn org.sonatype.plugins:nexus-maven-plugin:settings-download http://www.sonatype.com/books/nexus-book/reference/settings-sect-downloading.html

FIX ECLIPSE VIBRANT INK SEARCH RESULT HIGHLIGHTS

The Eclipse color theme plugin makes its simply to switch to the Vibrant Ink theme. However, when doing a search (eg. find references) highlighted matches are a little tricky to see! To change this:

UNDERSTANDING COUNTERPARTY CREDIT RISK

Whenever you start on a new project there’s always a certain amount of tribal language to decode. A colleague of mine kept talking about a system that “calculates IRC”. When I asked what IRC was, he didn’t know….

WHEN LMAX DISRUPTOR IS NOT THE RIGHT CHOICE

http://java.dzone.com/articles/when-disruptor-not-good-fit

DARK THEME FOR ECLIPSE JUNO

wohooo!! https://github.com/eclipse-color-theme/eclipse-ui-themes

EXCLUDE FIELDS IN JPA WITH XML MAPPINGS: QUICK GUIDE

You’ve got a xml file that you need to persist to the database and you don’t really want to use low level parsing and jdbc.

HOW TO REVERSE ENGINEER HSQL DB WITH SPRING ROO

When “database introspect –schema no-schema-required” after setting up a hsql db you may get “no driver class available”.

JAVA WEAK REFERENCES: ESSENTIAL DEVELOPER RESOURCE

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/2006/05/04/understanding-weak-references

GOLD MARKETS: GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION IMPACT

The Only Thing We Have To Fear Is Fear Itself… And Governments Telling Us What To Fear: Why The Beginning Of The End Started With FDR’s Confiscation Of Gold