lions, tigers, and BEARS....oh my!

As my pregnant wife, three year old daughter and I went for a walk around our neighborhood today, we were startled as a black bear ran out in front of us across the street. I have seen them before while in my car but never on our street and never while out for a walk. I guess the dogs aren't the only thing we have to worry about anymore and you won't see me out for a walk holding a sandwich anytime soon . :)

Beanboy hard at work....

Last Thursday night (July 28) I sent Beanboy out to crawl 30 Java sites. As of today, and 8.9 gig of data collected, he' still crawling...hasn't even stopped for a water break. I can definitely see that if this is something I want to keep updated, I am going to need to get a few machines each crawling a subset of the list and then merging the results. Hopefully beanboy will finish soon as I am running out of space on my old linux machine.

Pro Spring

I recently picked up a copy of Pro Spring and I must say I am impressed. Some of the other online material about Spring can quickly get confusing and difficult to read. Pro Spring (at least the first few chapters) has been enjoyable to read and I am learning a lot about the framework. I am planning to start a Java web project in the next few months which will be built on Spring so I am sure the new knowledge will come in handy!