Author Archives: Matt Brotherson

flac or uberstandard?

Three years ago i purchased a Rockford Fosgate digital media server. This device streamed MP3’s from my PC to my hifi setup. At that point i decided to rip all of my CD’s for access by the streamer. The omnifi only supports MP3 or WAV so i chose to rip everything according [...]

man in the middle

Occasionally your team won’t be the only team on a big league project. Sometimes you find yourself as the man in the middle. This is the first time that i find myself on the outside of the good ‘ol boy network. For the perseverance of the team we must push through. [...]

WebSphere + JNDI + Spring Framework + Hibernate

Thought I’d post a snippet of applicationContext.xml for all the people out there trying a JNDI data source wired up in IBM’s WebSphere Application Server through Spring Framework and Hibernate. I couldn’t find this information as a whole anywhere out there so hopefully it helps someone.
Hit the jump for the xml.

wordpress.com stats for your blog

As I sit here wondering why on earth the glamazons would embarrass themselves on national tv via the show America’s Got Talent, I reflect on all of the stats packages available to us bloggers and site admins. The cat’s gravy is obviously Google Analytics. Great coverage and slick UI. Awstats is what [...]

people on planes

This is a repost of Sugavan’s witty reflection on airplane travel.

I travel frequently and I come across all kinds of people. Here I will try to classify them and give you tips and tricks on how to make your flight an enjoyable one (From worst to best)

The over-sized wind blower: Yep, you can consider yourself [...]