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Well, that is a QR Code.
And they are popping up everywhere. In magazine ads, on billboards, online, even on the weather channel for crying out loud! So what the heck are they, why am I seeing them all over the place, and how do they work?

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Anyone who reads my blogs knows that I rarely just redirect readers to another article or blog.  But Paul Codding has done such an excellent job of detailing exactly what needs to be done to get rid of the annoying LazyInitializationException message when using Hibernate and Spring that I simply can’t do it any more justice.

There is a LOT of information about needing to use the OpenSessionInView strategy with Spring and Hibernate… but very little information about HOW to use it.  Kudos to you Paul!

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What do fans of Green Day, Clay Aiken, and Avril Lavigne all have in common? Believe it or not, it is something they have in common with 200 million other people in the United States. Cell phones… The difference though, is that the aforementioned bands are encouraging their fans to become part of their action at concerts via SMS - text messaging. And in doing so, are opening the door to real time lead generation.

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Sometime I hate to admit how long I have been writing code - it tends to give away my age. The first program I wrote was in Apple Basic on the brand new Apple IIc (insert joke about my age here). But coding for as long as I have been has given me an interesting prospective on the tools and methodologies we use to develop software. The occasional look back to the ways we used to code makes you appreciate the current practices that much more.

Today I revisit the arduous task of debugging…

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Planning Poker is an incredibly useful consensus based estimation tool that has become a household word in Agile shops around the world. Personally I love it - when it is used correctly. However, as I have participated in estimation sessions across several different projects and teams, I have noticed three common mistakes that team leaders are making. One mistake takes away from the efficiency of planning poker, and the other two compromise the integrity of the estimates. All are easily avoidable.

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