While Adobe makes adding a new Flex SDK easy – just drop a new version folder alongside another version and point Eclipse to the new directory – they make installing a new Air SDK quite frustrating. The Air SDK is installed inside the Flex SDK, so to truly install a new version, you must hijack [...]

Oracle talked about Java 7 at the first stop of the Java Road Trip. The main speaker was Brian Goetz, author of Java Concurrency In Practice. Despite the disclaimer that everything including syntax is subject to change, the talk was pretty interesting.  Here are my notes.  (this was largely written on my iPad; please excuse [...]

In postgresql – selecting maximum for each group, we saw the actual stored function.  That was the easy part.  Then there was dealing with Postgresql and JDBC.  I encountered a few surprises while doing this. Calling the stored function I expected to use JDBC’s CallableStatement since I was calling a stored procedure.  Nope.  The proper [...]