2010-08-28 Saturday - Google bails on JavaOne this year

A sad development for JavaOne this year...
http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2010/08/update-on-javaone.html

2010-08-14 Saturday - Mono using GitHub...

I want to remember to come back and read this FAQ:

http://mono-project.com/GitFAQ

2010-08-14 Saturday - Postal Address Parsing

I came across an interesting challenge today: How to properly parse an address line in a postal address.

Initially, you might think that to be a relatively simple challenge - but spend a few minutes reading the United States Postal Service Pub 28 (Postal Addressing Standards) - and you'll appreciate some of the nuances of the problem.  In particular, see the examples beginning on page-9 to get a quick idea of the variations that would need to be handled.  At 208 pages - that's quite a bit of information.

A few quick Google searches turned-up a few interesting links that were relevant to my search for a possible solution:

http://download.oracle.com/docs/html/B10657_01/19dataqu.htm

http://software.ictarena.com/forums/t/123474.aspx

http://www.toadworld.com/Portals/0/stevenf/Dynamic%20SQL.pdf

http://www.address-parser.com/

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16413/parse-usable-street-address-city-state-zip-from-a-string

Canada specific information
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_codes_in_Canada

2010-08-14 Saturday - CERT Oracle Secure Coding Standard for Java

I happened to come across this interesting resource tonight:
The CERT Oracle Secure Coding Standard for Java

2010-08-08 Sunday - Spring Resources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_Framework

A May 2005 article on TheServerSide - by Rod Johnson:
Introduction to the Spring Framework

Spring 3.0.x Documentation:
http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.0.x/spring-framework-reference/html/overview.html

http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.0.x/spring-framework-reference/pdf/spring-framework-reference.pdf

Introduction to Spring MVC
http://netbeans.org/kb/docs/web/quickstart-webapps-spring.html

http://viralpatel.net/blogs/2010/06/tutorial-spring-3-mvc-introduction-spring-mvc-framework.html