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by jason on February 13, 2006
I ran across an interesting article called J2EE Without the Application Server at the OnJava site. The author Guy Pardon writes about an interesting way to create a Java application. It is not...
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by jason on February 07, 2006
Why you might ask would I post a list of reading lists? I have no idea but I enjoy reading a good book. So much so that my wife complains that I buy way too many of them. I......
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by jason on February 02, 2006
Over at Netbeans.org is has been annouced that version 5 has is offically released. The site gives a brief description of what version 5 is offering: Including: Project Matisse; completely redesigned...
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by jason on January 30, 2006
Over at the O'Reilly network the OnJava site has published one of two articles highligthing the five best known Java podcasts. I've only listened to the Java Posse podcast myself so I've...
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by jason on January 27, 2006
What is JavaBlackBelt: JavaBlackBelt is a community for Java & open source skills assessment. This is the place where Java developers have their technology knowledge and development abilities...
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by jason on January 23, 2006
Over at JavaLobby they are starting a new program called NIKO. The top three posts each day are going to win some cash. I've read in a couple places that people think this is a bad idea. I...
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by jason on December 24, 2005
Over the years I've had to mentor a number of junior programmers. I enjoy doing it and when someone asks me for help I'm always willing to make some time. The first thing I do is try and...
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by jason on November 21, 2005
I ran across a new mashup site that I think is the best news site I've ever seen for geeks. It combines feeds from Digg, SlashDot and Del.icio.us/Popular and only displays unique articles. This...
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by jason on October 17, 2005
Tor Norbye who works at Sun MicroSystems, Carl Quinn of Google and Dick Wall of New Energy started a new podcast called Java Posse back in September. They cover all the latest news and trends...
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by jason on October 09, 2005
The new Kids Programming Language (KPL) looks pretty interesting to me. My son, who is ten, sat down with me to take a look at it and he thought it was "awesome." The IDE is freeware and...
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by jason on October 08, 2005
Within the past month or so I've run across three possible ways we could help get kids get started with computer programming. When I say kids I'm talking about Junior High School or most...
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by jason on October 08, 2005
The subject of my next few articles is going to be about how people can start to learn computer programming. However before I start I'd just like to sat that it is strange how I get an idea...
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by jason on September 10, 2005
Welcome to the Java Entrepreneur Weblog that is written by Jason Darrow. The focus of this WebLog is to help a new or existing business solve problems by using Java. In addition I will talk about...
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