http://steep.blogsome.com Hayden Steep's development obstacle course. (Java, JEE, and beyond) Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:49:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I really enjoy writing about my work, but over the past 2 years I have been dramatically improving my life through some counseling at Savannah Self Help. Under the counsel of Helen Brown, I have improved my life in ways that my passion for technology never could. You need goals ... http://steep.blogsome.com/2009/11/13/prosperity-of-the-mind/ While watching the Super Bowl (go Giants!), I noticed a somewhat humorous advertisement for TheLadders.com The ad was set at a professional tennis match, but everyone in the stands pulled out a racket and ran onto the court to join the game. The voice-over sounded “When you let everyone play, ... http://steep.blogsome.com/2008/02/12/theladders-is-for-superbowl-calibur-suckers/ I’ve been learning Struts 2 recently. I spent too much time figuring out that in order to enable the framework’s validation behavior, your action classes must extend the ActionSupport class. The documentation fails to mention this small fact. Maybe it’s common knowledge to experienced Xwork developers, but wasn’t to me. ... http://steep.blogsome.com/2007/11/13/15/ With prices continuing to drop, I’ve been looking into upgrading my television to a wide screen flat panel model. Besides high-definition, I’ve also been looking forward to an increase in raw size that a new TV will offer, but what constitutes an increase in size? A 32 inch ... http://steep.blogsome.com/2007/03/09/preserving-actual-size-when-displaying-4x3-aspect-ratios-on-a-16x9-tvmonitor/ For those of us who haven’t become guru’s at developing user interfaces in Swing/SWT/.NET or other technologies used to develop GUI’s, (in other words web developers), there is an easy way to leverage your JEE skills to create stand alone programs. Just create a web application as you ... http://steep.blogsome.com/2006/10/25/creating-a-servlet-with-a-self-contained-web-server/