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Yesterday I ran into a rather tricky dependency issue. My final demo for my JavaZone talk depends on both Jen and Hibernate which again depend on different versions of the ASM library. There are quite a few frameworks that rely on this library, so I reckon that this is a rather common problem, but googling for a solution didn’t get me very ...

''Oh mercy, mercy meAh things ain't what they used to beWhat about this overcrowded landHow much more abuse from man can she stand?''Marvin Gaye - Mercy mercy me (The ecology) Today is World Environment Day. This is a good day to think about what we can do to stop global warming. Here are some ideas on how you can ...

After moving my blog I have managed to hide from the dreaded spambots. But as I suspected when I posted this, I would need to introduce some sort of CAPTCHA verification on this blog. I used Michael's simple CAPTCHA control which can be downloaded from http://trefry.net/blogs/michael/archive/2005/05/11/182.aspx. The installation process was a ...

  A couple of days ago, Oren Eini blogged about a hack bombing which is a practice of time bombing a hack so that you’ll be reminded to fix it. Some people thought it was a terrible idea, pointing to previous experiences with developers checking in debugging-hacks which caused severe difficulties for the team and letting these hacks slip ...

One thing I found annoying with my previous blog was that it lacked support for a meta blog API. This forced me to use the web-based editor. The site had an OK editor, but I envied those who blogged with Live Writer.When chose Community Server for this blog, one reason was the meta blogging API. Even if Live Writer listed Community Server as ...