February 2004

Extreme Programming & Outsourcing

February 26, 2004

Who would have thought that they would see the word ‘extreme programming‘ in an article in Business Week? I know I didn’t, but it appears in a great commentary entitled ‘Now More Than Ever, Innovation Is The Answer‘. The commentary is about how innovation is taking away technology jobs in the US and how jobs [...]

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Valentine’s Day present from IntelliJ

February 14, 2004

The fine folks at IntelliJ has finally released the latest and much anticipated version of the IDEA IDE – v4.0. Just download the latest version and am playing with it to figure out what’s new, what’s cool and what’s different.

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J2EE Web Services

February 12, 2004

J2EE Web Services by Richard Monson-Haefel is the current de-facto standard bible for Web Services development on Java. I had pre-ordered this book on Amazon and have read through this book several times in the last few months and I absolutely love this book. Richard has created a great resource for the J2EE developer that’s [...]

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“No Fluff, Just Stuff” Java Symposium is back

February 10, 2004

The “No Fluff, Just Stuff” Java Symposium is back in Milwaukee on April 16-18th at the Sheraton Milwaukee Brookfield Hotel (can you say free Wi-Fi). I attended the symposium last year and had a blast – I had several friends at JavaOne and I think I got more out of the 3-day session than they [...]

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My Dream application finally arrives

February 6, 2004

It will be here soon and I can’t wait. For the longest time, I’ve looked for this one killer application that did the 3 simple things I wanted it to do – email, news (usenet) and RSS aggregation. I use MS Outlook and Mailblocks.com for email, Mozilla for reading UseNet news and FeedDemon for my [...]

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The new and improved MS-Frontpage :)

February 6, 2004

A friend just passed this along and I had to chuckle. MS FrontPage, the HTML editor from Microsoft had been notorious about mucking up content and coming up with non-standard HTML. Well, they have a new ad saying they’ve improved things, but apparently they haven’t really fixed all their bugs. Check out the ad and [...]

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New Java books from O’Reilly

February 5, 2004

My Amazon habit strikes again. My wife thinks I’m addicted to amazon.com as we usually get 2-3 packages delivered from Amazon every week. Usually, I don’t even know what’s shipping as I preorder books, music and DVD’s. This week, my UPS guy will be bringing me new books from O’Reilly. Java Examples in a Nutshell, [...]

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Exploiting Software: How to Break Code

February 4, 2004

Addison-Wesley has just released a new book entitled ‘Exploiting Software: How to Break Code’. This book is going to be released on Feb 20th and looks like a really very interesting book. Here’s more info on the book from the Addison-Wesley release I got.Exploiting Software: How to Break CodeGreg Hoglund, Gary McGrawPaperback: 512 pagesPublisher: Pearson [...]

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dev2dev gets a new look

February 2, 2004

BEA’s Developer Portal dev2dev just got a new look. I’m sure this is part of the move to the 8.1 platform for dev2dev, but I haven’t seen any release about it. Looks like http://edocs.bea.com is also sporting the new look. Very slick new look.

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IDEA 4.0 and WebLogic

February 1, 2004

I’m one of the many people downloading every EAP release of IDEA 4.0 to check out what new features, refactorings, etc. they put in the upcoming release. One of the ones that I’ve been playing with a lot is the new WebLogic integration. IDEA 4.0, when it ships will support complete integration with WebLogic. Some [...]

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