The game my company has been working on for months is finally approved in the AppStore! Get your copy now! Click here

If you are using a desktop like I am and you dont “hibernate” your system, then you may want to turn this feature off. I have 12 Gb of RAM so this saves ~9 Gb on my C: drive. Heres how you save the space:

1. Click on Windows 7 Start Button
2. Go to All Programs-> Accessories
3. Now right on Command Prompt and select “Run as Administrator” from context menu.
4. Type "powercfg -h off" without the quotes

Thats all and hopefully it helps someone else out there…

We are now worm-safe, for now. Thanks Influxis!

I had to post this.. so I apologize in advance

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I haven’t heard anyone say this about Google Chrome, so maybe I’m the first. On a whim I decided to check Acid3 on Firefox 3 and it scored 71/100; then I decided to try Chrome since it rocks, and it scored 79/100. I’m really surprised that it failed, but it is still beta right?

If you’d like to try for yourself go here

I recently had the worst time trying to get JTA transactions to play nice in Hibernate configured via Spring. There is a lot of information out there on bits-n-pieces of the individual technologies but nothing seemed to show the whole picture, so I would like to provide the community with a working example. The code is not “perfect” but it demonstrates how to get this stuff working in harmony. A junit test, mssql scripts, and all the configs are included. I also set this up to use a composite key, since the project I worked on used a great deal of them and info was not easy to come by.
One of the libraries I used called BTM was instrumental in getting this to work (thanks Ludovic!), you will find this a lot easier to use than JOTM. There is a huge gotcha when using XA transactions with MSSQL, you have to install a dll and run some scripts to get it enabled and that info may be found here. I’m not sure if you have to do anything special in MySQL but I doubt it

The example comes as a zipped Eclipse project available here.
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