I should have posted this a while ago, but better late than never!

Hey everyone! It’s not just Jen any more, but Dr. Jen! Yes, Jen graduated with a Doctorate of Psychology from Xavier. Ain’t she great!

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Ok, here’s my first post from WordPress.

Update your links and feeds!

• Web: http://blog.shwango.com/
• Atom: http://blog.shwango.com/feed/atom
• RSS: http://blog.shwango.com/feed/

The old RSS feed link (http://www.shwango.com/blog/index.xml) will still be active for a while - I’ve got some mod_rewrite rules setup to handle the redirection.

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Another post just to say I’m still here!

I’m working on getting the blog moved to my new server. Still trying to decide whether to use WordPress or Mephisto. I use WordPress for sites at work and really dig it, but I’m doing a lot of Ruby nowadays, so Mephisto would be good to hone my skills. Maybe both? One for tech stuff and one for life?

Oh, yeah… I got married! Woo hoo! More on that later… (and a photo gallery of Belize!)

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Whoa things have been busy!

- Job change with a big project (Yikes - stress!)
- Christmas and New Year’s (Up to Chagrin, then party at our place!)
- Mom had tongue cancer surgery (She’s doing well)
- My sister’s pregnant (Due in March)
- Jen’s 30th Birthday (Happy Birthday! Dinner at Palominos, yum!)
- Ruby on Rails (Very cool)

Anyway… I hope to post more soon, but you know how that goes!

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Ok, I’m still here!

Once again I guess I’m falling into blogrot… I do have stuff to say and want to say it, but I guess I’ve been to lazy or busy to post.

Anyway, I’ll try to post more often - famous last words, eh!

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On Tuesday night I proposed to Jen and she accepted! She was pretty surprised since I did it on the day before our three year dating anniversary.

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Yesterday we finally got some Spring weather in Cincinnati! Nice, sunny and 70 degree day! Fired up the grill! (Not that it was the first time lighting the grill this year - I’ll grill out even in the snow!) Of course today is wet an rainy.

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Since MyEclipse doesn’t natively support EJB3 (yet), you need to include the EJB3 libs in your project - I’m using JBoss, so I’ve got the JBoss EJB libs. There’s great post in the MyEclipse forums on getting it set up. I added a few posts over there on which libs I needed - but here’s my screenshot for reference. (Technically you only need Eclipse, but I use MyEclipse and think it’s worth the little bit of cash.)

And to use MySQL for the tutorial:

@GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.AUTO)
and remove the @SequenceGenerator annotation - that worked for me.

Here’s another great EJB3 tutorial.

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The Train Expo was this past weekend at the Cincinnati Convention Center. Pretty cool stuff! I just started getting back into trains and model railroading over the Christmas holiday after Jen took me down to Holiday Junction at the Museum Center - they also have an amazing model of Cincinnati in the 40s as well as the re-opened Tower A which overlooks the Queensgate yard. (Webcam of the model.)

Some pictures and movies of the train expo: day 1, day 2, and a few movies.

Jen’s been pretty understanding of my new hobby! Actually she doesn’t mind it at all - just how much time I’m spending on it!

I also did a little “railfanning” a few weeks ago.

Here are some pictures over looking the yard on the Hopple St. viaduct and a few pictures from the Longworth Hall parking lot.

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I think I’ve mentioned before that over the past two years or so I’ve really been getting into Java and J2EE development. I’ve got a cool app running on JBoss using EJBs, Quartz for scheduling and MySQL for the database. Pretty stable too in the year or so it’s been in production. Most of the “good” stuff in our TF platform is running on JBoss now too - not really using the J2EE features yet since there’s so much old code still there, but making progress. Anyway…

I just started playing around with JBoss’ EJB3 stuff and I’m lovin’ it! I didn’t mind EJB 2.1 since I have MyEclipse and XDoclet to easy the amount of code I had to write, but this is much better! I’ve only just done a few small demo apps, but so far it’s really great.

Want to listen to a great podcast with Gavin King (of hibernate fame) discussing EJB3 and JBoss’ new Seam product, check out the Java Posse’s interview with him!

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