Simple survey customization for Drupal

Steve:

Ever wanted to force users to submit a quick (or not so quick) survey before giving them access to content on your Drupal site? With the webform module and a couple of quick customizations, it’s a breeze.

Posted 10/27/2008 - 19:26

Hibernate 3.3 Upgrade Tips

Steve:

While upgrading to the latest version of Hibernate, I ran into a couple of issues that I thought I would document. Hopefully these tips help out someone else who runs into the same problems.

Posted 08/24/2008 - 23:49 // 3 comments

Multiple SSH Tunnels

Steve:

Here is a quick tip to set up more than one SSH tunnel with a single command

Posted 07/16/2008 - 23:11 // 3 comments

The Virtual Office Space

Steve:

Unfortunately “The Virtual Office Space” is not a sequel to the movie about Lumbergh and Initech, but is a commentary on a growing trend in the country: working remotely.

Posted 07/14/2008 - 14:29

BIRT to the Rescue

Steve:

One of the most exciting verticals of open source software right now is the business intelligence market. See how we implemented two different solutions using Eclipse’s Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) application.

Posted 05/22/2008 - 14:36

RESTful URL Support in Apache Struts 2

Steve:

With the explosion of web frameworks such as Ruby on Rails that advocate (and even dictate) that you use RESTful URLs for your applications, I was shocked when I discovered that Apache’s Struts 2 Java web framework does not provide near the same level of support for this behavior.

Posted 03/11/2008 - 21:06 // 4 comments

Three Google Apps I’m Determined to Try Out This Year

Steve:

With all the Java-based applications and frameworks Google has rolled out over the last year or two, I’m disappointed that I haven’t been able to take any of them for a test drive yet. Even though January has already come and gone, it’s never too late to make a few more resolutions, right? So with the entire Internet as my witness (or at least those that read this blog), I announce my intention to at least play around with the following three Google apps before the end of the year:

Posted 02/01/2008 - 16:35 // 1 comment