Archive for April, 2008

Prototypes are scary!

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

We clearly want to be in the centre of the process of European integration. We want a Europe that is a strong voice for freedom, democracy, peace and reconciliation throughout the world. We are convinced of the need to go on with the process of enlargement of the European Union. We seek security in the cooperation with other nations. We value the transatlantic link. We remain a strong supported of the United Nations.

These were the award-winning pitmasters the good people at The Big Apple Barbecue Block Party had managed to bring in for their 4th annual bash, and we were particularly excited about Ubon’s “Champion’s Choice” and Bib Bob Gibson Bar-B-Q’s pulled pork shoulder, and Mitchell’s BBQ whole hog, all three of which were accompanied by legendary cole slaws, and intrigued by Smoki O’s St.-Louis-style rib tips, which came with baked beans. These outfits represented the styles and traditions we were most interested in taste-testing, and the fact that they also had the best names didn’t hurt either.

More importantly, this version addresses the prototype issue. Using the standard @InjectObject annotation messes up when the bean being injected is not a singleton. Non-singleton Spring beans, aka prototypes, must be re-acquired from the BeanFactory in order to get the correct, new version.

 

This one is really new

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

 The Moderate Party under Fredrik Reinfeldt not only did its best election since 1928, but also the best election result of any non-socialist party in modern times, narrowly beating the record set by the Centre party in the 1973 election.
“The changes on Bigdaddy are relatively subtle (less ranking changes and more infrastructure changes). Most of the changes are under the hood, and this infrastructure prepares the framework for future improvements throughout the year.”

I’m sure everyone that cares has heard new about Joanna Newsom’s new album by now. The track list that’s floating around includes a song called “Monkey & Bear” (which we’re claiming right now as this blog’s theme song), as well as “Emily“, which we posted a live version of Here it is again, in case you missed it the first time around: