I’m currently working on a personal PHP project and I just wanted to sort of “bookmark” the resources I’ve gathered and found useful over the past few days.
SimpleXML processing with PHP
PHP Cookbook Using PHP 5’s SimpleXML
User Registration/Account Activation Script
Object Oriented PHP: Paging Result Sets
Write to a file from PHP
This is just my second PHP project [...]
Joshua Bloch of Google is coming up with his second installment of the famous Effective Java book.
Effective Java (2nd Ed)
InfoQ has an interesting article about the upcoming book and provides a sample chapter on Generics free for download.
Other books from Bloch include:
Java Puzzlers
Effective Java (1st Ed)
Java Concurrency in Practice (co-authored)
I’ve benefited a lot [...]
Sun Tech Days will be in Manila from June 17-19.
Now in its 10th year, Tech Days is a Worldwide Developer Conference that spans 15 cities across the world reaching more than 100,000 developers. This is your chance to develop skills and advance your career in a Web 2.0 world; share knowledge and grow your network; [...]
I was recently asked by a fellow Ranch Hand (through Private Message) regarding my take on Certifications.
Subject:
Does Certification Help?
Message:
Hi, I have done SCJP, SCWCD and will now give SCBCD and then SCEA. You have done these certifications. Does these help in career? Which country do u reside and what technology u work on. Which technologies [...]
Coming from a pediatrician visit for our six month old baby boy, my wife and I decided to spend Mother’s day “eve” at Glorietta to have a glimpse of Vanessa Carlton.
Most of us know Vanessa from her hit single “A Thousand Miles” from the Album “Be Not Nobody” back in 2002.
Be Not Nobody
We [...]
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I discovered a weird issue when using HSQLDB as database provider for TopLink JPA.
We need to explicitly include the toplink.target-database property in the persistence.xml file to make it work.
<property name="toplink.target-database" value="HSQL"/>
Without that, you are most likely to get this error below when you run your application:
Query: DataModifyQuery()
at oracle.toplink.essentials.exceptions.DatabaseException.sqlException(DatabaseException.java:304)
…
Caused [...]
For years, Log4J has been the de facto logging framework for Java. I’m not sure if most developers are already aware of this but there are a lot of other neat things you can do with Log4J aside from writing debug lines to plain text files.
Among them are sending notifications through email, IM or even [...]
After downloading the quickfix library from SourceForge, I was redirected to a very interesting advertisement from ThinkGeek.
That of the Wi-Fi Detector Shirt.
Here at ThinkGeek we’re pretty lazy when it comes to technology. We expect our gadgets to do all the busywork while we focus on the high level important tasks like reading blogs. That’s why [...]
Tags: SourceForge·ThinkGeek·Wi-Fi
Finally, I won a book from JavaRanch!
Praise God!
The book is entitled:
Collective Intelligence in Action
Unlike other books in Collective Intelligence, the methods and examples presented in CIA are based in Java.
I’ve already joined many other book promos in the Ranch (Head First PMP, Rock Star Programmers, JQuery In Action), but this is the first [...]
I gave you life, but cannot live it for you.
I can teach you things, but I cannot make you learn.
I can give you directions, but I cannot be there to lead you.
I can allow you freedom, but I cannot account for it.
I can take you to church, but I cannot make you believe.
I can teach [...]
Tags: Christianity·Moms·Mother's Day
