Field Notes

Skagit Valley Tulip Festival with overheating brakes, sparse color, daffodils, and a 15-foot trebuchet.

RichFaces modal panels break in IE6 when using s:graphicImage - use a Servlet workaround instead.

First motorcycle ride of spring: a short trip to the library that reminds you how rusty you've gotten.

Seam's Home object design pattern solves LazyInitializationException and entity manager scope issues.

Flying to Ohio, San Francisco, then France while juggling a full-time job, side projects, and haircuts.

Your home office is productivity's foundation - 8+ hours daily demands ergonomics, tech, and stress reduction.

Real IP addresses hide behind load balancers and proxies - use X-FORWARDED-FOR and the ProxyIPFixer servlet.

This week's menu: fresh veggies, no fried food, no processed stuff - eating clean and simple matters.

New Mexico trip: Grandma's 80th surprise party, sopapillas, and rediscovering childhood memories.

Y Combinator's 2008 Startup School at Stanford: founders networking matters more than hearing the speakers.

Read my follow-up article on Network World - link inside.

10MinuteMail now has AJAX refreshing, forward to home, smtp throttling, and removed abused features.

Apache proxy blocks RichFaces JavaScript - the ContextRoot/a4j path needs direct access, not load balanced.

Lazy Sunday morning? Not quite - 9AM wake-up, 7 hours sleep, 500+ calories on the treadmill.

A dancer's commanding presence transforms the camera - raw energy meets technical precision.

Better Java image resizing for thumbnails - higher quality output with improved code based on feedback.

That convenient login redirect? It kills conversations. Here's why and how to fix it.

Lost sleep aside, here's a real look at how one architect actually spends 24 hours.

Oracle exp/imp inflates table sizes - INITIAL extent settings preserve old dimensions even after shrinking.

Drop all Oracle tables easily - generate a SQL script from querying user_tables, then execute it.