It seems like for at least a couple of years now, I've had problems when trying to login to newegg.com with Firefox. Across different installs of Firefox, on Windows, OS X, and Linux, etc.. no matter what I tried, Firefox just didn't work at all. Today after my typical google search session, [...]

I'm going to skip over a rant about how much Axis2 sucks in order to pass a tip on how to include Axis2 artifacts (AAR's, MAR's, etc) into an EAR file using the Maven plugin to package EAR files, maven-ear-plugin. It's a pretty obvious solution but if you're in a hurry like I've been [...]

I've been heads down coding for what seems like 8 years now when in reality it's just a few months, so I've been a little out of touch with what else is going on in the Boulder start-up scene. This also explains my spotty blog posting, but hopefully I'll get a chance to post [...]

The default Eclipse for Mac OS X font is kind of annoying since it's way too big and reminds me of MS Comic Sans. If you try to replace it with one of the wonderful ProggyFonts without tweaking them first, you get stuck with anti-aliased fonts that look terrible. During my quest to [...]

Between many machines at home, Virtual Machines, a work laptop, etc, I always seem to manage installing Firefox from scratch at least once a month. There are several add-ons that I pretty much require for Firefox to work for me, and I thought I should post them somewhere. I know that [...]

This past Friday marked the end of the second week at my new job which has brought many changes for me. I left a good sized development team at large company for the uncertainty for a VC funded start-up without revenue, I'm miles from a ColdFusion server and instead am working on a Java [...]

Adam Bien covers how to reduce the size of JAR packages in Java 5 & 6 here. An example he shows starts at 44 MB and gets reduced down to 6 MB-- impressive!

Since switching to Subversion for version control about two years ago at work, there have always been questions about best practices here and there which were certainly debatable. One of the last long discussions/e-mail threads we had about Subversion was about when to branch, when to stay on trunk, etc. Ned Batchelder wrote [...]

Admittedly I don't find myself debugging CSS all that often but CSSViewer is one of the coolest Firefox extensions I've seen in awhile-- check it out!

As reported earlier, SourceForge has finally enabled Subversion support for all projects. Perhaps this is the proverbial kick I've needed to post a few very minor open source tools I've been working on in CF, Python, and Java somewhere in a workable manner (with documentation-- *gasp*).