Archive for February, 2007

Maven2, Cargo and deploying to Jetty 6 with Commons Logging

Java and it’s classloaders, always a fun time!

Every been using Maven2, Cargo and deploying to Jetty 6 with Commons Logging? Probably not, but if you were you’d run into this I bet.

org.apache.commons.logging.LogConfigurationException: Invalid class loader hierarchy.

This is a Type-2 Classloader error. I know, what does that mean?

Type-II: Assignment incompatibility of [...]

Vim tips video from the man himself, Bram!

I’ve said before that you should learn one editor and learn it well! This video by Vim’s creator is another way to get better at using Vim.

I’m continually freaked out about the number of programmers and technologists that can’t use one editor well. If you’re a vim user but haven’t felt like you’re getting [...]

Google holding Scalability conference in Seattle

Google is holding a conference in Seattle about scalability They are accepting papers now and will open up registration in a while. The conference will take place June 23, 2007 at Google’s Seattle office.

If you have a great new idea for handling a growing system or an innovative approach to [...]

Fear of the day: Tapeworms!

Just when I think jwz is getting a bit low on freaky links, today he lets us learn more about tapeworms! This only important when you consider the possibility that people really are at risk for this… which you might not think is possible in the modern US-of-A. Well, ABC shows us how [...]

Napoleon Dynamite speaks on the Abstract Factory Pattern

Oh that Napoleon Dynamite such the software developer…

Don: Hey, Napoleon. What did you do yesterday?

Napoleon Dynamite: I told you! I spent it with coding up sweet classes!

Don: Design Patterns, did you use any?

Napoleon Dynamite: Yes, like 50 of ‘em! Clients kept trying to instantiate my concrete classes, what the heck would you do in a [...]