If you have an app that sends email and you want to test it without a mail server, I recently found an elegant solution. The solution involves using the Spring framework and an...

I recently decided to install Apache Maven 3.0.1 via my favorite packaging system for Mac (Homebrew). This presented a couple of issues that I worked to resolve and documented here for others. Problem...

I've recently done a proof of concept using RabbitMQ, Spring AMQP and Spring Integration. This post will describe how each of these open source technologies along with some enterprise integration patterns were used...

In over ten years of experience building software, there are patterns and nuances that you pick up on in terms of building effective software systems. Three areas where I believe any software project...

I set out to find an elegant solution to providing growl notifications for a JRuby application. Here are my findings: gems growl - nice simple code but requires Growlnotify extra to be installed....

I've started playing around with Heroku lately and ran into an issue when I created my app on one machine and cloned from Git on another. After some digging, I found that I...

I've been meaning to investigate something that came to mind a while back and just now got around to it while researching a bug. My feeling was that there may be a faster...