This site

This is the personal Blog of Dave Minter. It's implemented in Spring using Hibernate for persistence into a PostgreSQL database. It runs under Java on a Linux box. The system is based around a 2.4 GHz Intel Celeron, with 512Mb of RAM and an 80 Gb hard disk. It is hosted at RapidSwitch.

The site uses icons from http://tango.freedesktop.org/ and http://www.feedicons.com/

Unless stated otherwise the code examples given in this blog are Copyright © Dave Minter 2007, 2008, 2009, but you may use them freely without attribution.

Me

I'm the author of Beginning Spring 2, and with Jeff Linwood of Beginning Hibernate 3, Pro Hibernate 3, and Building Portals with the Java Portlet API.

I am the director of FatMoggy Ltd, building Chrome Server - a new kind of application server for mortals.

If you want to comment on the content of this site, feel free to send me an email at dave@paperstack.com - however please note that my incoming email is heavily filtered by Spamcop, so if you're sending from China, Russia, or other spam rich domains I'm unlikely to see it. Sorry about that.

Policies

This is my personal site, so I don't feel especially constrained in what I write on it. My blog posts will occasionally be edited. Each post contains a timestamp for when it was last amended, so it is never entirely invisible that I have made changes. Minor changes such as correcting typographical or grammatical errors in the prose will not usually be mentioned. Fixes to code will usually be flagged with text inline if they would cause major problems or a third party has reported them. Other substantial changes will usually be flagged. It's always my decision, however, and I reserve the right to make any changes I want without any notification.