Java on Google App Engine

Cool. Google now host Java applications for free.

Here's my first app.

For more information, see this post for running Java in Eclipse. Very easy, very cool, very Google ;)

Facebook's a Crock....

Why do you have to register to search for people on Facebook?

Why do you have to register to read user generated content on Facebook?

Why? Because they want to sell your details, make money off the content you write and inflate their user numbers. There can be no other reasons.

James Young - Internet Vigilante

There have been a number of notices issued by:

James Young
Internet Investigator
on behalf of Microsoft Corporation

Which request that websites or forums remove allegedly infringing material.

The emails come from Microsoft Anti Piracy Investigator #2 (internet2@microsoft-antipiracy.com) which doesn't appear to be a Microsoft owned site at all. Whilst a number of sites have fallen for the threats and removed content or completely closed, more and more of them are beginning to ignore these as they seem to have no legal backing at all.

Click here for further reading

Forex Trading using Inside Bars

There are a few good threads on ForexFactory.com that use Inside Bars.

See this and this.

Sponsorship

This blog is not sponsored by Jones Day

They're a bunch of idiots.

JPA Annotations with JSF, Spring, TopLink & Tomcat

If you want to use JPA annotations with JSF, Toplink and Spring running under Tomcat, then you MUST include the Toplink essentials jar in the Tomcat lib directory, along with any jdbc driver classes. Your persistence.xml file can reside anywhere on the classpath.

You don't get a warning if you don't, other than the "abstract schema does not exist" message.

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