http://notehive.com/wp Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:54:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Barry Schwartz wrote the book The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less more and gave this TED talk on why too much choice can be a bad thing. To summarize, too much choice is bad when: It paralyzes decision making because you fear making the wrong choice. You recalculate the benefit of ... http://notehive.com/wp/2008/08/13/too-much-choice/ This article describes the directory structure and command shell environment configuration I use on my development machine to help manage tools, source code and dependent libraries. Directory Layout On Windows I keep all my development tools and source code under c:\dev.  On Linux I use the same layout under $HOME/dev/ Inside the "dev" ... http://notehive.com/wp/2008/08/01/my-dev-directory-layout-and-environment-setup/ Introduction I have developed a small sample to demonstrate how to use Hibernate in OSGi with Spring Framework and Spring-DM.  The sample works in either Felix or Equinox. It builds with Maven 2 - the build process automatically downloads the Felix and Equinox jars so there is no need to install ... http://notehive.com/wp/2008/07/23/osgi-hibernate-spring-dm-sample/ This is a quick and practical task-based introduction to OSGi. We avoid any in depth discussion about the purpose or benefits of OSGi or even the tools referenced in this article. Many high level introductions on the technology are available; for examples, please see the webcasts at Eclipse. ... http://notehive.com/wp/2008/03/23/introduction-to-osgi/ Shujie & I returned home yesterday after an 11 day trip to the People's Republic of China. I uploaded my 400+ photos and Shujie's 115 photos. Here are some touristy photos of Shujie and me in the Palace Museum / Forbidden City: I learned so much about China, Shujie, ... http://notehive.com/wp/2007/11/26/back-from-china/ I'm finally going to China, for the first time, tomorrow. I have been dreaming about this for years!  I have seen several documentaries on life in China and have traveled a bit around the globe, so I think I have a pretty good idea what it will be like. ... http://notehive.com/wp/2007/11/13/going-to-china/ Today I went through the exercise of setting up a new blog. I prefer to install the blog software myself at a domain that I own and this begs the question: Which blog software should I use? After a couple of web searches and skimming some results, I looked ... http://notehive.com/wp/2007/11/13/new-blog/