Programming

Penn State’s Certificate in Geographic Information Systems

March 16, 2009

Today, I finished my last assignment required in my final class required to earn my Certificate in Geographic Information Systems from Penn State. This is a 4 course program (11 credits – all distance learning) that generally takes a year to complete (or at least it did for me, with a break for last summer). [...]

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Using Groovy to Create Sample Data in XML format for AppFuse

August 10, 2008

I have been using AppFuse 2.0 to create some applications that read from legacy databases. Under AppFuse’s standard configuration, you can populate the development application with sample data by adding data to the sample-data.xml file located in the src\test\resources directory. In my case, I have several data tables that contain appropriate sample data, so my [...]

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Moving up to AppFuse 2

July 28, 2008

After successfully using AppFuse 1.9.4 in a production environment, we recently started developing with the AppFuse 2 version. I know, I know… it has been out for sometime, but we finally had the right opportunity to try the 2.0.2 version for a new app. Having been familiar with the previous version, I thought it would [...]

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