Filed in archive Web Services
by jason on February 27, 2006
JavaJobs.com has made available their first version of what are some interesting web services. The site describes the service as follows: ... Free to developers and webmasters the web services...
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Filed in archive Business
by jason on February 26, 2006
I think it is amusing that while a number of people think "Java Is Dead" the language gets rated number one by TIOBE Software. First, Full Disclosure about my understanding of where this...
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Filed in archive AJAX
by jason on February 26, 2006
I found a new site that calls itself AJAX Lessons. The owners give the following description of themselves: AjaxLessons.com is a resource for ajax tutorials as well as information surrounding Ajax...
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Filed in archive Programming
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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Filed in archive Personal
by jason on February 23, 2006
I was searching for a technical book the other day. Normally I just go to Amazon and buy whatever I'm looking for there but on this day I did a Google search. After having found the title on...
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Filed in archive Programming
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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Filed in archive AJAX
by jason on February 21, 2006
Jonathan Snook has taken the time to document every available method in the Prototype Library. The result from the look of it took a very long time to put together. I use Prototype so this is pretty...
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I ran across this site today that I found amusing. It seems as though Yahoo has a way to track the relative Buzz of Java ides. Based on what I've seeing right now Netbeans is generating the...
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Filed in archive Basics
by jason on February 20, 2006
Recently I've had to stop working so hard on backend business logic and spend a little more time worrying about the presentation layer of my web sites. It may have something to do with me being...
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Filed in archive E-Commerce
by jason on February 17, 2006
Late last year someone emailed me and asked me to join the Go BIG Network. This community describes itself as "Go BIG Network: The BIGGEST Startup Company Venture Capital angel investor Small...
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Filed in archive Programming
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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Filed in archive AJAX
by jason on February 15, 2006
The Technoblog site has a really good article about AJAX security issues. To be completely honest until reading this article I have not considered every security issue that an AJAX enabled site could...
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Filed in archive Business
by jason on February 15, 2006
Over at TJ's Weblog he has an article about MySQL getting a round of funding. I really like MySQL so wanted to cover that announement here. Recently I've had to deal with Oracle problems that...
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Filed in archive Personal
by jason on February 15, 2006
I live in two worlds. One world is that of the computer nerd who reads all the time about the latest happenings in technology. I'll work all day with the setup, administration, or programming of...
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Filed in archive AJAX
by jason on February 14, 2006
This story about Yahoo's UI library release is all over the place today. The fact that Yahoo would release a library of components to assist developers in building rich user interfaces on the web...
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Filed in archive Basics
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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Filed in archive AJAX
by jason on February 12, 2006
Encytemedia has a tutorial up on their site that shows developers how to handle events with the Prototype library. The tutorial shows lots of examples in code. From the article: Events drive...
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Tim Bray, who works for Sun MicroSystems, has posted an article in his blog that I could not ignore once I saw the title. The title of the post is LAMP and Java and it combines to subjects that...
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Filed in archive Programming
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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I just had an interesting two days spent trying to design a new IT system. What the system is and what it is suppose to do is not the point of this post. The process that was involved in trying......
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Filed in archive Basics
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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Filed in archive AJAX
by jason on February 06, 2006
Max Kiesler has put together a nice collection of AJAX widgets that he has found during his travels. The reason I find the post so interesting is because he has provided links to each item in his...
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