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Business
on December 26, 2005
I ran across a really good article written a while back by Harshad Oak entitled IT Survivors - Staying Alive In A Software Job. For me it was a very fresh, open and honest look at what it is like thes...
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Basics
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 figu...
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Business
on December 22, 2005
Torsten Jacobi forwarded me this item which I found interesting. Meebo.com has a service that allows users to access all the major Instant Messaging services through a single AJAX interface. Just a fe...
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Programming
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 resource...
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Management
on December 20, 2005
Lately I've heard the term Enterprise Service (ESB) Bus tossed around so much that I question if some people realize how big a deal it would be to put one in place. However, it is not as though a ...
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Personal
on December 18, 2005
The I first time I had The Long Tail explained to me I thought it was total BS created by some academic type to generate public speaking engagements. However, after some thought and observation I see ...
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Business
on December 16, 2005
The title of this may sound strange but trust me I'll wrap it up nicely. I'll start by saying that yesterday I had an opportunity to speak to an Angel Investor. Who and why is not something I&...
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Programming
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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Application Development
on December 12, 2005
At JavaLobby Marc Domenig wrote a really good article entitled Rich Internet Applications and AJAX - Selecting the best product about choosing the right approach to building Ajax enabled applications ...
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E-Commerce
on December 9, 2005
I think EBay is finally trying to stop biting a hand that feeds them. Back in September I talked about how stupid it was for EBay to charge developers to use their API (here). Well it looks as though ...
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Application Development
on December 7, 2005
I've needed to profile a Java application and ran across a really good article recently. What the folks over at Java Performance Tuning put together is a really good explanation of the Netbeans Pr...
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Programming
on December 6, 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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Business
on December 5, 2005
There is a new blog that I added to my reading list recently. It was the name of the blog, Life Beyond Code, that sucked me in first. However, after a number of visits I've found that Rajesh Setty...
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Application Development
on December 2, 2005
I've tried Ruby on Rails (RoR) and I think it is pretty cool. I don't want what I'm going to say next diminish it. With that said I'm trying to step back and understand why so many peo...
