http://blog.aristotlesdog.com questing for knowledge Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:25:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en First, when addressing a subject, you can't encompass or address the views of every single person, so I'm going to be addressing the majority (call it a stereotype if you want, I prefer 'main audience').  For those that are outliers, that's what the comment section is for I guess. Religion is ... http://blog.aristotlesdog.com/2008/06/30/you-are-making-stuff-up-and-you-know-it/ My last post made me decide to go back to my drafts and either delete or post all of them.  This is the only one close enough for me to finish. Remember how you took math in school and said "When will I ever use this in my real life, especially ... http://blog.aristotlesdog.com/2008/06/18/math-applies-to-life/ I have horrible time management skills.  You can ask anyone that knows me (esp. my wife).  I'm trying to figure out the root cause of this, and I think it actually goes beyond just managing my time. Let's take for instance theath.  That mofo somehow writes 3 blog entries a week.  ... http://blog.aristotlesdog.com/2008/06/18/time-management-skills/ For anyone following the tutorial found here, and getting this handy error: [ERROR] Failure to load module 'foo.bar.Bar' java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.CompilationResult.getErrors()[Lorg/ eclipse/jdt/core/compiler/IProblem; I get this error whenever I add the nocache.js to the html page. I have a solution.  Go in to your project properties and remove unused libraries (especially any that refer to Tomcat). Project -> ... http://blog.aristotlesdog.com/2008/05/05/gwt-extjs-eclipse-cypal-error/ I say google because it happens to be the only search engine I use.  I guess this applies to all of them, if for some weird reason you use yahoo or ask or msn. When I search for something like "java spring static method", often times google will return results from ... http://blog.aristotlesdog.com/2008/05/05/dear-google-smarter-plz/ First, lets look at simplicity to get up and running.  I'll assume you already have a java environment up and running using an IDE or text editor of your choice (eclipse plus viPlugin ftw) because you are a java developer and you need that.  I'm also assuming you are starting ... http://blog.aristotlesdog.com/2008/05/01/memcached_vs_ehcache/ This isn't something new I just made up, and it applies almost everywhere,  but for some reason people all too often think it doesn't apply it to software development.  Let's look at 3 different projects, one using a paradigm of sustainable pace (SP), and one using a naive approach we ... http://blog.aristotlesdog.com/2008/04/26/sustainable-pace-tortoise-and-the-hare-style/ I bet scientology is cool until they ask you to sign a billion year contract, tell you about Xenu, and make you pay $30K to tell all your dark secrets while holding an ohmmeter so they can blackmail you.  But up until then, I bet its awesome. That being said, I ... http://blog.aristotlesdog.com/2008/04/24/sweet-scientology/