One resource that I stumbled upon and that I signed up for recently is MyJavaServer. This is a great way for someone new to Java to get more expereince using it or for those looking for an easy...

I'm going to start working on a project that will include "lots of AJAX." I think it is funny that a person would say something let that to me. I mean no disrespect to that person at...

JavaLobby News reports the following: "Welcome to JavaZone 2005 Online, brought to you by Javalobby and javaBin. We hope you enjoy these 24 excellent presentations recorded this past September...

For one reason or another I've been interested in the topic of independent IT consulting or contract work lately (I use these terms interchangeably but the differences between each can be found...

Since I started blogging for Creative Weblogging through the Java Entrepreneur site I've been watching the traffic statistics just a little too much. I find myself checking them two to three...

What follows is a fairly high level explanation of how to create a web service with Apache Axis. We'll start with the idea that a web service client wants to retrieve a widget. The client will...

I was at JavaOne 2005 in San Francisco and had a really good time. I found most of the sessions I attended very insightful and I encourage folks to check them out. They are presented on the site...

Tor Norbye who works at Sun MicroSystems, Carl Quinn of Google and Dick Wall of New Energy started a new podcast called Java Posse back in September. They cover all the latest news and trends...

As an IT professional in the United States I'm well aware of offshore outsourcing but I'm still trying to digest the extent of it and have been for years now. The other day I ran across the...

A project I've been working on needs to pull data from NOAA via web services. They don't have an incredible fancy API like Amazon does but they do have the Experimental National Digital...

I'm thinking of this article as a foundation entry in my blog. This is a topic I will build upon in the future with more detailed entries. With that said and with all the talk surrounding Web...

I try hard not to simply regurgitate news articles I see everyday and post they to my blog. I figure that an average Internet user could find these articles without my help. An example of this being...

The new Kids Programming Language (KPL) looks pretty interesting to me. My son, who is ten, sat down with me to take a look at it and he thought it was "awesome." The IDE is freeware and...

Within the past month or so I've run across three possible ways we could help get kids get started with computer programming. When I say kids I'm talking about Junior High School or most...

The subject of my next few articles is going to be about how people can start to learn computer programming. However before I start I'd just like to sat that it is strange how I get an idea...

The Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco is happening right now and it is at full capacity. At the conference a company named KnowHow is showing off their new consumer RSS solution called the eLerts...

ProgrammableWeb has a nice addition to their site. They recently published a Web 2.0 Mashup Matrix that displays the a listing of all the major Web API providers and how they intersect. I'm...

I've worked on a number of different projects at companies during my career. In almost all cases those organizations used some form of matix management. One thing I've found when having a...