Filed in archive E-Commerce by jason on November 30, 2005

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 t...

Opportunity Cost in Choosing an AJAX Framework

Filed in archive Application Development by jason on November 29, 2005

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 use...

Hibernate Configuration with No XML

Filed in archive Programming by jason on November 27, 2005

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 conf...

Generate a Privacy Policy for a Site

Filed in archive Business by jason on November 25, 2005

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 no...

Sun Developer Network IP TV Show

Filed in archive Programming by jason on November 25, 2005

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 Netw...

Top 12 Ruby on Rails Tutorials

Filed in archive Programming by jason on November 23, 2005

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: ...

Digg, SlashDot and Del.icio.us In One

Filed in archive Basics by jason on November 21, 2005

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 is...

WYSIWYG Java Based Web Applications

Filed in archive Application Development by jason on November 19, 2005

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 IDE...

Java.Blogs is Thriving

Filed in archive Personal by jason on November 19, 2005

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 t...

Can Web Services Be Secure?

Filed in archive Security by jason on November 17, 2005

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 ...

Performance and Stress Testing

Filed in archive Application Development by jason on November 15, 2005

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 ...

Derek Sivers of CD Baby

Filed in archive Business by jason on November 13, 2005

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 they...

In Awe of Ruby on Rails

Filed in archive Programming by jason on November 11, 2005

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 the items was lea...

More Free IDEs

Filed in archive Business by jason on November 10, 2005

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 Creat...

Amazon Mechanical Turk

Filed in archive Business by jason on November 8, 2005

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 tas...

Design Patterns versus Design Principles

Filed in archive Programming by jason on November 7, 2005

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 on...

How to Run a Code/Peer Review 101

Filed in archive Application Development by jason on November 5, 2005

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 ...

The Joel on Software Book

Filed in archive Business by jason on November 4, 2005

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 fir...

Ruby on Rails, Python, PHP or Simply Rediscover JSP

Filed in archive Programming by jason on November 2, 2005

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 homepa...