Month: April 2008
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Seam EntityHome Design Pattern
I’ve been using Seam for over a year. At some point the “Home” object was introduced to the documentation (Chapter 11). Reading the documentation didn’t convince me of the point. Being an ATG guy at heart, I still prefer using “form handlers” for managing my important entities. So I haven’t bothered. However, just recently I…
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Busy Times
This week has been pretty crazy, and the upcoming few weeks look at least as bad. I’m working my regular full time job (and trying to figure out where that’s going), I’m working on another big development project after-hours, I’m working on a possible collaboration project, I’m developing a software project development methodology, and handling…
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Physical Workspace
My physical work area is a key component of my productivity and happiness. One of the advantages of working remotely is that you can really work anywhere, as long as you have internet access and cell phone reception. I try to work about one day a week from a coffee house with some friends to…
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Getting the Real IP Address from a Proxied Request in ATG
Many things can obscure the real IP address of the end user when they visit your site: a load balancer in front of your ATG cluster, Akamai, the user’s ISP or office network, and more. This makes correlating logging events, or using the ATG session IP validation security option, and more, very difficult. In light…
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Groceries
I just finished going shopping for the food we will need for this weeks menu. I took a picture of what I bought in order to highlight, to myself and to you, how we eat. Firstly, the food: Next is our menu for this week: Thursday Burritos Friday Chicken Fajitas Saturday Grilled Chicken over shells…
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Trip to New Mexico
I just returned from five days spent in Albuquerque New Mexico. My Grandmother turned 80 on Monday, and my Uncle, who lives down there as well organized a great surprise party for her on Sunday with many members of the family flying in from out of town. Emma had never been to New Mexico, so…