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by jason on April 03, 2006
TheServerSide.com has covered the release of GRails 0.1. GRails is suppose to be "the java community's answer to Ruby on Rails" but I'm not so sure. I've tried GRails and had a...
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by jason on March 29, 2006
When I went to JavaOne 2005 in SF one of the sessions I attended was the Java Puzzlers presentation. Joshua Bloch and Neal Gafter did a really good presentation. I also recently finished the best...
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by jason on March 25, 2006
I need to get up to speed on a project where I'll be using Python as the programming langauge. Normally I would spend the time to read a book about Python and then start programming with it....
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by jason on March 19, 2006
For anyone that has been reading my blog it must be obvious that I like the Netbeans IDE. I'm not religious about it, like some people can get about these things, but if I'm starting work on a...
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by jason on February 24, 2006
Kristian Dupont Knudsen has a nice article on his site. Instead of telling all of us what we should do as programmers he takes the opposite approach. I find this refreshing for some reason. A few of...
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by jason on February 22, 2006
When I first heard of the term POJO I had no idea what it could mean. After I asked someone what it meant I felt a little stupid for asking. We tend to over complicate even acronyms but we......
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by jason on February 17, 2006
I just posted an article called A List of Reading Lists last week. Today I see that over at JavaLobby they just finished a contest to decide what the top ten books are that every Java developer...
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by jason on February 10, 2006
JavaBlackBelt has a new offering on their site. The intention of this new feature is to help educate Java developers. A TechMap is a visual article which explains a technology with a minimal amount...
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by jason on February 05, 2006
Over at Atlassian.com they are having a plugin competition where the grand prize is $5,000 (USD). There are a number of other prizes as well (here) that are listed. That's right, people. It's...
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by jason on February 02, 2006
My hope as I write this is that someone will respond saying how much of a newb I am today. I have done some homework on this subject though and I'm doubtful but I hold out hope. I've been......
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by jason on January 31, 2006
For someone that publishes to a blog entitled "Java Entrepreneur" I have to admit that I haven't been doing much Java programming lately. First, I started work on a project using Ruby...
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by jason on January 18, 2006
One of the best ways to learn something is not by reading or sitting in a classroom. The best way to learn is to get your hands dirty and doing something yourself. This Java Boot Camp by Sang...
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by jason on January 03, 2006
Gregg Sporar over at Sun MicroSystems emailed me to let me know that a new tutorial is up on the Netbeans site for their application profiler. I was able to get things working pretty easily based on...
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by jason on January 01, 2006
JRoller Passes 10,000 Users - Largest Java Blogging Server On the Net according to Matthew Schmidt. You can count me as one of those 10,000 registered users. For me this is an example of why me...
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by jason on December 21, 2005
Java.net has a good article about Log4Ajax. As someone who has experienced the pain surrounding building an AJAX enabled application and debugging with alert statements I think this is a good...
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by jason on December 14, 2005
The title of this post may be obvious to some but it wasn't to me at first. I've broken down and admitted to myself that I have been a JavaScript bigot. I'm told that recognizing you have...
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by jason on December 06, 2005
I've spent the last couple of days updating an application that the user base says is too slow. Its a CRM Java based web application that was written using the struts framework. This was my first...
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by jason on November 27, 2005
Click to enlargeThis is something I'm not sure everyone knows because I've searched a number of tutorials on the subject and not found anything. Additionally I'm not a big fan of XML...
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by jason on November 25, 2005
In my November 2005 Java Enterprise Technologies Newsletter I ran across something interesting. Sun MicroSystems has started producing a monthly IP TV show. "Introducing the Sun Developer...
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by jason on November 23, 2005
A few days ago I ran across this post and thought it was a really good reference so I'm covering it here. Jim Rutherford is the Author of the Digital Media Minute blog and writes the following: A...
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by jason on November 11, 2005
Today was a quiet day because it is Veterans Day and I am home with my son while my wife goes off to work. I awoke early and looked over some TODO items I have in my calendar. One of......
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by jason on November 07, 2005
Tinou Bao and I met while working on a project a few years back. During that time I found him to be one of the best developers I had, and still have, ever met. Anyway, Tinou has an interesting post......
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by jason on November 02, 2005
Addendum 11/16/2005: I wrote this post to try and be funny, which is why I said it would be a "fictional outline." I've tried Ruby on Rails and think it is awesome and my personal...
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by jason on October 15, 2005
A project I've been working on needs to pull data from NOAA via web services. They don't have an incredible fancy API like Amazon does but they do have the Experimental National Digital...
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