ChangeLog – Jon Chase's blog

If you’re using a text editor on Windows and it’s not E ($35), do yourself a favor and head over to the product’s web site, watch the screencast, and then download and use the trial version. I’ve been using UltraEdit for a long time, and while it’s a solid solution, E is heading in [...]

Right now, the offerings from the different Internet browsers for viewing your browser history are a bit…plain. There’s the dropdown in the address bar of pages visited. There’s also the ever popular Back button. But users at large could benefit from something better, something more intelligent, and something more in line with [...]

If you haven’t read this book yet, go get it.. This book is often referred to as “The Bible” of software project management (the author jokes that, just like the real Bible, “everybody reads it but nobody does anything about it!”) This does in fact seem to be true at a large number [...]

Exciting news here – we’re nearing the first beta release of SendAlong! It’s got all the wonderful things you’d expect in a beta – limited features, bugs, and a UI designed by a programmer:).
Here’s hoping it’ll be up soon.
One thing to mention – it’s a closed beta, so you’ll need an invite to get [...]

“I’m the Boss Man, Need the Info!”
Want to see not only the SQL statements that Hibernate generates, but also the parameters it binds to them, and the results it gets back? I did too.
Here’s how:
First, set Hibernate’s show_sql to false (if you’re using it)
Second, add the following to your log4j.properties file:

log4j.logger.org.hibernate.SQL=debug
log4j.logger.org.hibernate.type=trace
Log4j will now [...]

With regard to the fragility of software:
“It’s like driving a bulldozer out on a frozen pond man…” – Ryan

Hibernate and Oracle triggers may both need to set the primary key value when inserting a row into the database – here’s how to make them play nice together.
Oracle users typically use a combination of a trigger and a sequence to achieve what many databases support natively – the concept of an Identity data type [...]

Something any FreeMarker templater should know when creating links that contain numeric values:
From the FreeMarker reference:
Warning!
As you can see, interpolations print for human audience (by default at least), as opposed to “computer audience”. In some cases this is not good, like when you print a database record ID-s as the part of an URL or [...]

Welcome to the blog about…
This blog covers the conceiving, designing, developing, testing, and deploying (along with all of the fun and tribulations that are sure to accompany those activities) of a “real world” web application from start to finish (well, is there really ever an end to a successful software project?).
I hope you’ll enjoy reading, [...]