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...

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...

I had some free time today and decided to checkout a site I heard about that allows Internet users to play Java based games. The site is at JavaGamePlay.com. It has a number of games available that...

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...

With all the Ruby, Python, PHP, etc... crowd talking about Java you would think that we were typing out punch cards and being constantly frustrated. An example of this is the interview with Thomas...

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...

This may be a bit of a rant but I think it needs to be said anyway. I'm getting pretty tired of hearing about reuse and how it is such a good idea. Fine... it is a good idea......

I listen to a number of podcasts while driving and or running. One of the podcasts I have setup to download everyday through Doppler is Entrepreneurs Journey. In a couple of recent podcasts Yaro...

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...

Over at Ajaxian they have a new podcast which is an interview with Thomas Fuchs, the creator of the Script.aculo.us library . Before hearing the interview I didn't know that Script.aculo.us is...

This is a follow-up to my recent article Ruby On Rails Nightmare where I explained the problems I was having deploying a Ruby on Rails based application. James Davidson linked to one of my sites and...

I have a pretty straightforward definition for what AJAX is in my head. Simply put it is the ability for a JavaScript enabled web page to exchange information with a server without having to refresh....

Every once and a while I'll run across something that gives me confidence that people "get it." In the 90's the Internet was just starting to catch on and I had one of those...

IBM developerworks has a new article on the subject of JavaServer Faces by Anand Prakash Joshi. It is entitled Design with the JSF architecture: Exploring design patterns used in the JavaServer Faces...

I've just about completed my first Ruby on Rails based application. Coding it was like a dream. I honestly enjoyed working with the framework and the speed at which I was able to put things...

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...

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...