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AJAX
by jason on April 30, 2006
At Andre's Blog he has a nice entry where he is trying to collect screencasts of AJAX patterns in action. First, I haven't really thought of these things as AJAX patterns before but after chec...
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Programming
by jason on April 28, 2006
I saw this posting on JavaLobby titled: AOP: Is anyone using it? Below is my response.
On one of my most recent projects a team member and I decided to use the SpringFramework. So I went out and boug...
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Business
by jason on April 26, 2006
Rajesh Setty in his blog Life Beyond Code has announced the release of his new eBook titled Personal Branding for Technology Professionals. This book is being offered at no cost other than your time i...
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Business
by jason on April 26, 2006
I'm not sure about everyone else but I'm incredibly busy latley. Something seems to be happening here that I have not seen in about fours years time. Companies are starting to spend money on t...
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Basics
by jason on April 24, 2006
I found this interesting nugget at Tor Norbye's Weblog. Tor is one of the members of the Java Posse podcast. His most recent post explains the benefits of sitting in the front of the class, or a p...
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Monthly Contest
by jason on April 21, 2006
This is the last week folks can take part. At the end of this month we close the survey and pick a winner.
Once again, we are conducting a survey during the entire month of April. Our hope is to ma...
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Management
by jason on April 20, 2006
Whenever I look at the code behind an existing application, that I did not write myself of course, I always find something I would have done differently. But who doesn't... it is the nature of wha...
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Application Development
by jason on April 19, 2006
At the Chase The Devil blog Fabien has covered the top 20 posts, as in the most read items, that were posted on the JavaBlogs.com site. I find it interesting to see what other Java developers found in...
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Programming
by jason on April 19, 2006
Over a IndicThreads.com they have a good interview with Guillaume Laforge who is a Project Manager for Groovy. I've never used Groovy before so an introduction like that provided in the interview ...
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Management
by jason on April 19, 2006
Once again Joel Spolsky has written an article that I feel compelled to comment on here. In his article entitled The Development Abstraction Layer he talks about the need for management to provide an ...
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AJAX
by jason on April 17, 2006
The folks over a Ajaxian have covered a site which has produced a number of book reviews. Each review covers an AJAX book. Check it out
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Business
by jason on April 16, 2006
In a past article I had written about my interest in trying to spend some time working for equity with a new venture. On a few occasions within the last six months I have been approached by a few peop...
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Monthly Contest
by jason on April 14, 2006
We are conducting a survey during the entire month of April. Our hope is to make this a better blog through feedback and serve our readers better. In turn we hope to gain more traffic from existing a...
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Programming
by jason on April 13, 2006
Java World has a good example of how to put together an interesting Mashup involving Google Maps. I find it interesting because google maps does not have the ability to lookup positioning coordinates ...
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by Creative Weblogging on April 12, 2006
The Tribeca film Festival 2006 calls for a short movie competition!
Record and show them your own story in 15 seconds and win honor and glory.
In order to make your submissions as successful as poss...
Read more of How to make a short glorious movie
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Personal
by jason on April 12, 2006
Today Creative Report 2.0 was released. It allows readers of this blog to submit news Items or posts of their own. Items submitted will be promoted to the main blog based on traffic they generate. Sin...
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E-Commerce
by jason on April 12, 2006
Yesterday I went for a run and listened to the latest Boagworld podcast. While web design is not a strong point of mine I still like to know what is going on in the space and this podcasts presents th...
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Personal
by jason on April 9, 2006
The folks over at TechCrunch have started a pretty good podcast called TalkCrunch. I've grown tired of listening to podcasts that front themselves as being the replacement for FM radio but don'...
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Monthly Contest
by jason on April 7, 2006
We are conducting a survey during the entire month of April. Our hope is to make this a better blog through feedback and serve our readers better. In turn we hope to gain more traffic from existing a...
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Application Development
by jason on April 5, 2006
I'm written a lot of Java Code to this point in my career. However, from time to time I need to step outside of my comfort zone and use another language a client or company wants me to. This is no...
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Application Development
by jason on April 4, 2006
For someone that writes a blog with Java in the title I sure do seem to write a number of posts about Ruby on Rails. Anyway, today I read an article about Rails and its new ability to run on top of or...
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Programming
by jason on April 3, 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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Management
by jason on April 2, 2006
I just finished a second review last week of a new AJAX book that is to be published this month. Overall it was a really good book. The one thing that stuck out about the book was that the author actu...
