Nate's Programming Blog

Just found out the use of the target attribute in hyperlinks has been removed in xhtml 1.0 strict spec. I didn’t realize this and it isn’t an issue for my blog because it is only xhtml 1.0 transitional which I also just realized, but Allison’s blog uses the Blix theme which is xhtml 1.0 strict […]

I just wanted to let people know that a couple of new websites I contributed to are out on the internet. It is nice to finally be able to have work I’ve done viewable to the rest of the world. My blogs are great, but they will probably never really be real known, because I […]

Welcome the next generation of iPod, the iPod flea 🙂

So I got the latest copy of TV Guide today. I signed up for a free subscription that should have ended about a year ago and they are still sending me copies. Anyway, the title of this issue is “Sci-Fi’s Returning Favorites” and pictured is one of the main characters from Stargate Atlantis, Battlestar Gallactica […]

I discovered a work around for being able to use declarative transactions with classes that don’t implement an interface. Basically this is one of the ways to configure a base AOP transaction proxy using Spring. <bean id=”txProxyTemplate” abstract=”true” class=”org.springframework.transaction.interceptor.TransactionProxyFactoryBean”> <property name=”transactionManager”><ref bean=”transactionManager”/></property> <property name=”transactionAttributes”> <props> <prop key=”*”>PROPAGATION_REQUIRED,readOnly</prop> </props> </property> </bean> <bean id=”petStore” parent=”txProxyTemplate”> <property name=”target”> […]

I saw this link on Matt Raible’s Blog and read the white paper on Web Frameworks. I really like how they broke down and summarized the major frameworks and compared them together. If you are trying to decide what framework is best for your project, this is a good place to start.