http://blogs.plexibus.com Thoughts, questions and opinions - some from the trenches, a few from the Ivory Tower Sun, 30 Nov 2008 21:12:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A few days ago I was coding a simple load-testing program using 'for' loops. Something of the form: package com.plexibus.samples; public class HelloWorldClient { public static void main(String[] args) { HelloWorld hw = new HelloWorld(); long startTime = System.currentTimeMillis(); for(int i=0; i<10000; i++) { ... http://blogs.plexibus.com/2008/07/15/fun-with-aop-reducing-redundant-code-the-for-loop/ The following is a guide to fabric-enabling (or grid-enabling) your existing Spring beans using Appistry EAF. We will use Maven for build configuration. Pre-requisites to running the code sample provided: JDK 1.5+ Appistry EAF 3.8 Release Maven 2.0.7+. An IDE to write/edit code. I use Eclipse 3.3.2 and the code in the zip file ... http://blogs.plexibus.com/2008/06/21/code-example-using-spring-beans-with-appistry-eaf-38/ A great time management lecture by Randy Pausch. http://blogs.plexibus.com/2008/05/28/time-management/ I installed Nexus on my Ubuntu server last weekend. So far it's works great. Their single page documentation was very helpful during installation and configuration I use Artifactory at my work place. And I've attempted using Archiva at home. But after installing Nexus, I prefer it over Artifactory and Archiva. Here are ... http://blogs.plexibus.com/2008/04/22/nexus-maven-repository-manager/ By default, the maven repository is created under your user_directory\.m2\repository. On Unix/Linux, this is fine. But under Windows, I prefer a different location than the default which is "C:\Documents and Settings\<user_directory>\.m2\repository". You can change where Maven creates the repository. Open the settings.xml in your $M2_HOME/conf directory and change the localRepository element ... http://blogs.plexibus.com/2008/03/11/how-to-change-your-local-maven-repository/ "If you cannot measure it, you cannot manage it"  This applies to all aspects of your personal and professional life. http://blogs.plexibus.com/2008/03/11/thought-for-the-day/ I created this document for my team at work when I migrated all our ant builds to maven. What is Maven Maven is more than a build tool. It's is a project management tool. Maven's power lies in it approach - standards over flexibility - and code reusability using plugins. Maven Principles Convention over ... http://blogs.plexibus.com/2007/12/02/maven-guide-part-one-basics/ I'm currently working on setting up and configuring the Maven release plugin on our projects for doing releases - primarily tagging, branching, and deploying a tagged release. We have been using Maven extensively and I've been for the most part happy with it since we migrated from Ant. I say *most* ... http://blogs.plexibus.com/2007/11/22/tagging-and-branching-with-the-maven-release-plugin-a-few-pain-points/ The views expressed on this blog are personal and mine alone. In no event will I be liable for any direct or indirect damages arising out of use of opinions expressed on this blog. http://blogs.plexibus.com/2007/11/09/initial-thoughts/