BrowserShots.org is a free service that allows web site owners to see what their sites look like in a number of different web browsers. For people that have had to go through the trouble of ensuring...

There is an application that I co-wrote which contains a function that would benefit greatly if I rewrote it using AJAX. So I have made the decision to go ahead and rewrite it. My hope is that the...

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...

I spent this evening researching Terms of Use and Privacy Policy considerations for a site I'm working on. I'm getting older, but I'm not sure about wiser, and the Wild West scenario is...

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...

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...

I ran across a new mashup site that I think is the best news site I've ever seen for geeks. It combines feeds from Digg, SlashDot and Del.icio.us/Popular and only displays unique articles. This...

I just downloaded my free copy of Sun Java Studio Creator and started playing with it. My initial impression of the tool is that it is pretty cool. When I started a new web application project the...

This past week I signed up my blog with the Java.Blogs community and I was amazed by the response. The site is a community of Java related blogs that reminds me of the Digg site. Every blog provides...

At JavaOne 2005 I attended a session called "Web Services Security Attacks in Action." Since that time I've had some concerns in the back of my mind. Lately I've been thinking about...

One assignment I've have this past week required me to "stress test and benchmark" a web application. That sounds pretty straightforward but it gets a little strange when there is not a...

It is autumn here in New England and yesterday I was outside listening to a really good podcast while I herding dead leaves into small piles. I subscribe to theVenture Voice podcast and find that...

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......

Two companies decided to release their IDEs for free this week after having previously been charging for them. The first company is Sun Microsystems, which decided to release the Sun Java Studio...

Amazon surprised me recently with their Amazon Mechanical Turk service. To summarize my understanding of the service, it is a marketplace for developers to request human interaction to accomplish...

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......

During my career I've had to facilitate peer reviews with developers on my teams. Each time I've been surprised when a new member on the team would not know how the process would play out. In...

I like to read a good book and one that I just finished reading turned out to be much better then I had expected. The book is titled "Joel on Software" and it is not your average book. I......

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...