New Memorizing Design Patterns - the fun way By Patricbensen

Just stumbled upon a wonderful way to memorize stuff at memorize.com Say you want to test yourself or just plain want to memorize Design Pat...

New Ready reference for Web Service Types By Patricbensen

New TripleDES encryption compatibility when using Java and .NET By Patricbensen

Note: This article shows you how to generate a SecretKey to use with a TripleDES encryption cipher. The shared-secret key can be 24 byte or ...

New Damn Small Linux: Install files with .dsl extension By Patricbensen

The DamnSmallLinux live CD/USB allows you run DSL in memory. It also allows you to run apps that you download from the MyDSL repository. If...

New JPA and Stored Procedures By Patricbensen

I recently stumbled upon many queries on google about how to make Stored Proc calls via JPA. Something was not right with questions like thi...

New HP Laptops with XP - Brightness buttons dont work - Fix By Patricbensen

If you've got a new HP laptop and have formatted it (to probably get rid of the lousy Vista OS) and installed or downgraded it to XP you...

New BPEL: Get clobbered with the Golden Hammer By Patricbensen

Somewhere in the lobby after an IBM/Oracle seminar showing off their shinny and latest BPEL products Brainwashed customer: I just met with...