it was a very busy weekend for yours truly. on saturday, i drove over to my mom’s place to drive a bunch of 13 year old kiddies (yay!) to the texas rangers game and back. the game wasn’t quite as boring as i expected.. but the seats were unbelievably cramped together and it was pretty […]

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well, the unimaginable has finally happened. on september 22nd, i will officially be an employee of jboss, inc. the excitement has been over ruling the better part of this week. i got the offer letter on tuesday, and delayed a day until i get find out some more details from ivelin about the position. i […]

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my, my.. what a weekend it’s been. i’ve been visiting ebay alot this weekend, selling my old sony ericsson t616 (i got $100, woot!), and picking up a motorola hf800 bluetooth wireless speaker. my new difusi bluetooth adapter should be coming in the mail any day now….
honain, jorge, and i finally got a chance to […]

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last night i ended up staying at work until around 8 or 9 pm putting the finishing touches on a demo for usfi. i also skipped working out, and came in early.. to make sure everything was kosher for today’s demo. wouldn’t you know, they rescheduled it for next monday. wasted overtime has to be […]

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it seems like when you’re so close to finishing something, something extra always comes up.. especially in software. i started working on documentation for jboss-aop-ide, and naturally i found some bugs while running through the tutorial case. hopefully i’ve fixed all of them at this point, or at least they’re not complete show stoppers.
so […]

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if you don’t know what AOP (aspect oriented programming) is, you might want to stop reading at this point, or at least educate yourself.
jboss aop provides developers with two ways of intercepting a pointcut: Interceptors, and Aspects. the key difference is the way they are implemented by the developer.
an Interceptor is nothing more than […]

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as the title of today’s blog suggests, 20 years ago today was the day the earth was blessed with the birth of Paige Renee Irvine.
the past 2 years, 4 months, and 9 days have been nothing short of amazing for me, paige. to prove to you how great you are, and how much you’ve made […]

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