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, 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 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.

Tips

The green links in the top left of the banner for my site are from a company called TipJoy. Their aim is to solve the micropayments problem, an endeavour in which I wish them luck. Should you leave a tip? I don't really mind. Don't feel guilty if you don't. I run this blog primarily as a place to archive write-ups of solved problems. The main benefit I get from this is the occasional feedback on these issues - any tips are a nice perk, but hardly essential.

Currently I cannot withdraw any of your tips as hard currency from TipJoy anyway. Until such time as I can, I'll donate any tips I get to Amnesty International, so if you have a problem with that don't tip. Equally when they do allow you to cash-in directly, I'll do exactly that. So if you have a problem with that don't tip.

Policies

This is my personal site, so I don't feel especially constrained in what I write on it. At the moment I don't have comments on the site because I don't want the burden of weeding out the crap, so there's no issue with editing those. My own 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.