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by jason on October 31, 2005
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 way to...
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Application Development
by jason on October 29, 2005
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 all...
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by jason on October 27, 2005
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 i...
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Business
by jason on October 26, 2005
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 he...
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Personal
by jason on October 24, 2005
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 times...
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Web Services
by jason on October 22, 2005
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 pro...
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Application Development
by jason on October 19, 2005
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 in PD...
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Basics
by jason on October 17, 2005
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 concern...
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E-Commerce
by jason on October 16, 2005
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 Re...
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Programming
by jason on October 15, 2005
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 Foreca...
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Application Development
, Application Development
, Web Services
by jason on October 13, 2005
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 Serv...
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Web Services
by jason on October 11, 2005
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 t...
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Basics
by jason on October 9, 2005
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 alo...
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Basics
by jason on October 8, 2005
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 likel...
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Basics
by jason on October 8, 2005
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 for wr...
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E-Commerce
by jason on October 5, 2005
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 se...
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Web Services
by jason on October 4, 2005
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 seei...
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Application Development
by jason on October 3, 2005
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 proj...
