Embedding Jasper

I’ve been interested in RIAK for a while, and ORM’s are nothing short of fascinating. I decided to try writing an ORM for Riak, and the results are here: https://github.com/teverett/cbean My ORM is not an ORM of course, because RIAK is not relational. However it is ORM-like; I can store POJO’s and retrieve them. The…

When building database ORM code, I prefer to use ebean, and I prefer to use DAO‘s. Since DAO’s are simple to make generic, I have a Generic DAO I use for all projects. I’ve finally decided to open-source my DAO code, and you can find it here https://github.com/teverett/ebean-dao.

I’ve always had a fascination with compilers.  As a Java geek, I’m also quite interested in the JVM.  In order to learn a little more about both, and as a way to contribute to the open source world, I decided to implement a compiler for BASIC.   So, jvmBasic consumes BASIC code and emits .class…

If you haven’t read this book, I highly recommend it.  I discovered it in high school and finally purchased my first copy at the now-gone Duthie Books in Kitsilano.  Without going into the details of the book, the author uses a simple Peano arithmetic called Typographical Number Theory  (TNT) to illustrate some of his points. An example…

I’ve recently become very interested in blockchain, and that, naturally led me to Ethereum and Bitcoin.  From there, I got a little interested in online trading, but since I prefer not to have to think about trading, I started thinking about a trading bot.  Part of the work I needed to do was write a…

When writing custom servlets, it can be quite useful to unit test them.  In my case, I used a combination of testng and mockito.  The basic idea is simple; mock a HttpServletRequest, and a HttpServletResponse and pass them to the custom servlet.  There is a bit more too it, so here’s an example. final HttpServletRequest…