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 [...]
Entries from May 29th, 2008
Effective Java, Second Edition
May 21st, 2008 · No Comments · Books, Java
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 [...]
Sun Tech Days in Manila
May 21st, 2008 · No Comments · Java, Philippines
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 [...]
Does Certification Help?
May 21st, 2008 · 2 Comments · Dotnet, Flex, Java
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 [...]
Vanessa Carlton in Manila
May 21st, 2008 · No Comments · Philippines
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 [...]
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TopLink JPA and HSQLDB Quirk
May 14th, 2008 · 8 Comments · Java
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 [...]
Email/IM Notification with Log4J
May 14th, 2008 · No Comments · Books, Java
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 [...]
Wi-Fi Detector Shirt
May 13th, 2008 · No Comments · Tools
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. [...]
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Collective Intelligence in Action
May 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Books, Java
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 [...]
Reflections of a Mother
May 11th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Heroes, Sunday School
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 [...]
Tags: Christianity·Moms·Mother's Day