Story preview: Just a quick follow up to my last post - a very quick way to organize all your imports across all your source, assuming you use Eclipse (or an Eclipse based) IDE. In your Project Explorer panel, highligh each of your Java source files. Then right click, and choose Source->Organize...

Story preview: I'd always read, and have tried to follow, the general rule of thumb that generalized package level imports are bad practice, and today at work I encountered my first real life example of why. A customer who developed a J2EE application in-house on a J2EE 1.4 application server is currently...

Story preview: Today I relocated my website to a hew hosting provider, Slice Host. I always had great support from my previous hosting company, Rimu Hosting, but I needed more resources for an upcoming site I'll be talking about soon, and the price was right with SliceHost. The transition appears to have...

Story preview: I hate pointless information. Today I saw this icon on my calendar, next to a vacation day I had scheduled for yesterday (Wednesday 06/11): Everything was fine until I thought to myself, I thought, "what's that little guy waving his hand for?" So I moused over the icon, expecting meaningful...

Story preview: Because I was bored for a few minutes after work today, timfanelli.com is now: And, my CSS validates as well: I checked the validation against the main page, and several individual entries... obviously, some pages may still not validate because I placed invalid XHTML1.1 code into them, but I'll fix...

Story preview: Now that the primaries are essentially over, all manner of uninformed people are throwing around idiotic terms trying to sound involved and educated regarding the upcoming 2008 general election and the candidates involved. While I certainly am no expert, I believe I have the common sense to not speak out...

Story preview: This post is merely to see what Twitter's HTML updates badge looks like... so here's mine: Twitter Updates...

Story preview: I recently wrote a letter to the editor to the Clarkson Integrator publicly insulting the Clarkson Senior Class for their behavior during Friday night's bar crawl. Let me start by apologizing to the Clarkson Senior's, as I have since learned that the event was not a Clarkson sponsored event. That...

Story preview: I read a very interesting article on the NY Times today, linked from this /. article, about the Monty Hall Problem. The problem has apparently caused much embarrassment among mathematicians, and now psychologists, and it's a very interesting read. I couldn't quite agree with the argument put forth, and I'm...

Story preview: About a week ago, maybe two, instructions were posted on the net to tether your iphone's EDGE connection -- allowing you to make full use of your unlimited data plan via your laptop. A notably missing feature in the iPhone, as every other EDGE enabled device I've ever owned allows...