You just have to love a developer with a dry sense of humor. Someone with some extra time created a project over at SourceForge called Denoser. This is the project's official description:Read more

This may seem like a trivial entry to some, but I had a terrible time figuring out how to get the Jetty integrated JBoss distribution to look like your standard webserver. It took me so much time, I promised myself I would publish directions to make it easier for others.

A) JBoss-Jetty runs on port 80
B) JBoss-Jetty has a root context (the base application for the website, such as http://dmartin.org).

A) wasn't hard to figure out.Read more

I've been pleased since I put my weblog up a short time ago with all the responses I've had from the community. Nearly all positive. That's why I keep all my contact information in the footer of my website. I love talking with all the amazing people in the world. I knew it couldn't last forever. Thursday night I was sitting in my back yard partying with a bunch of friends when I started getting instant messages on my Sidekick. It went something like this:

Random Stranger> "Nice job ripping off other websites you <bleepin> moron."Read more

This week I switched to James(Java Apache Mail Enterprise Server), an open source project that was recently promoted from a Jakarta subproject to a top level Apache project. James was pointed out to me by someone commenting on my blog. James is definitely what I was looking for.Read more

I've been interested in replacing my dependence on Outlook with a Java email client. I've taken a look at two: Columb@, and Clevercactus.Read more

I believe in making the most of my computer. With only one computer, I'm doing more things than you'd expect. I have a standard computer running Windows 2000, and a cable modem.Read more

Doing some blog exploring today, I was brought to the sad realization that I'm a FontBitch. I swear it wasn't intentional, though I admit I usually use styles in true font point sizes, "font-size: 10pt". Now I know why that's a bad thing. I'll put it somewhere (at the bottom) on my list of my 1000 useless things I'll never get around to fixing.

The Proxomitron is one of my favorite programs.  It is the all-in-one solution for good web browsing for Windows users.  It is free and works with any web browser.  I have personally tested it with Internet Explorer, Read more

Though it seems every Java developer with a weblog spews on his/her weblog everytime Eclipse changes a line of code, I'm a big Netbeans fan.  So, I'm taking the time to point out to the world that Netbeans just released 3.5 beta 1.  You can find it here.Read more

I spent most of my free time in the past week developing the dmartin.org website from the ground up. In my commitment to leaving behind all things proprietary and expensive (ie.Read more