From the monthly archives:

December 2006

Still having a blast!

December 31, 2006

I cannot believe it's already been a month since I started my new job. Guess the old adage about time flying when you are having fun is true. I am having a blast at my new job and Artisan is an awesome place to work. In addition to truly loving what you [...]

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Dude, you're getting a DELL flat panel monitor

December 30, 2006

Santa was good to me this year – My brother bought me a DELL 24 UltraSharp 2407WFP Wide-Screen Black Flat Panel Monitor. This is an awesome monitor that supports WUXGA resolution (1920×1200), have 4 USB 2.0 ports and a 9-in-2 media card reader built-in. *drool*

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Carbonite Rocks – Backups Made Easy

December 30, 2006

Update (Oct 6, 2007): I have stopped using Carbonite and switched to Mozy for a while now. I've had numerous problems with Carbonite and their customer service was crappy. So I decided to give up on Carbonite even though I had already pre-paid for 2 years – I guess it's better to [...]

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Here's to third place!

December 30, 2006

I found a really interesting article in The New Yorker magazine via Matt's blog. The article is a must-read but here's the article in a nutshell: Focus on profitability and not market share as market share doesn't always lead to profitability. The article looks at Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo and how Sony rules [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for Dec 29, 2006

December 29, 2006

Red Hat's next Linux due before March | CNET News.com
Red Hat plans to ship the next version of its premium Linux product on February 28, debuting major virtualization technology
(tags: news redhat linux xen vmware virtualization emc oracle novell suse rhel)

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Daily del.icio.us for Dec 28, 2006

December 28, 2006

Cheat Sheet Roundup – Over 30 Cheatsheets for developers
Lets face it, unless you have a photographic memory, no developer can remember all the different functions, options, tags, etc. that exist. Documentation can be cumbersome at times, thats why I like cheat sheets
(tags: cheatsheet programming reference CSS development javascript PHP xhtml productivity guide)

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Daily del.icio.us for Dec 26, 2006

December 26, 2006

New Java Framework For Data-Intensive Java on Multicore
DataRush is a light-weight (less than 3 MB on disk) but extremely powerful parallel processing engine framework. It's 100% Java and runs on Java 5 SE. It handles all the parallel programming for you including horizontal, vertical and pipeline parallelism
(tags: interesting java programming data multicore datarush)

The AJAX Framework [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for Dec 24, 2006

December 24, 2006

Coding Horror: Assertiveness for Software Developers
As software developers, we're great at communicating with computers. But we're typically not so great at communicating with other people. Esther Schindler's recent interview with Steve McConnell illustrates how this aspect of our personality tends to work
(tags: development assertiveness psychology programming management business software strategy developer career)

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Red Hat to Oracle (and market) – Oh No You Didn't!

December 23, 2006

Red Hat shares jumped about 25% after they reported a quarterly profit and outlook that topped Wall Street forecasts. After the close, the stock is still going up in after-hours trading. Kudos to Red Hat whose stock had been hammered after Oracle announced that they were going to redistribute Red Hat's Linux under [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for Dec 22, 2006

December 22, 2006

Compiling Java to JavaScript
In this interview with Artima, Scott Blum, the Google software engineer behind GWT's Java-to-JavaScript compiler, talks about the challenges of turning Java source code into JavaScript.
(tags: ajax article gwt java javascript google interview)

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Daily del.icio.us for Dec 21, 2006

December 21, 2006

Web 2.0 how-to design style guide
The list below is a summary of many of the common features of typical "Web 2.0″ sites.
(tags: design development howto web reference web2.0)

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Daily del.icio.us for Dec 17, 2006

December 17, 2006

Beauty in Design – Free Series! – MooTools for the Rest of Us (via Ajaxian.com)
"MooTools for the Rest of Us" is a series of tutorials that demonstrates, by example, implementation of basic MooTools effects into a template.
(tags: Javascript mootools tutorial ajax framework Web2.0 joomla moo.fx development effects)

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Daily del.icio.us for Dec 16, 2006

December 16, 2006

dev2dev: Exploring Ajax Runtime Offerings
This article attempts to sort through these frameworks and map some of the characteristics by which they can be compared. The hope is that the reader will come away with some tools to use for breaking down the collection of Ajax offerings in ways that mak
(tags: ajax architecture web2.0 java javaee [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for Dec 14, 2006

December 14, 2006

Google Web Toolkit – Making GWT Better
Today is quite a milestone for Google Web Toolkit: with the GWT 1.3 Release Candidate, our team is very happy to announce that all of GWT is open source under the Apache 2.0 license
(tags: GWT ajax programming google toolkit webdev software foss)

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Daily del.icio.us for Dec 12, 2006

December 12, 2006

Joel on Software – Simplicity
Success is a result of a combination of things: building an audience, evangelism, clean and spare design, emotional appeal, aesthetics, fast response time, direct and instant user feedback, program models which correspond to the user model resulting in hi
(tags: design simplicity software usability JoelOnSoftware programming 37Signals entrepreneurship features commentary)

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New Theme for this blog: NigaRila

December 10, 2006

A lot of you read this blog using an RSS reader and so you probably don't see the theme that adorns this blog but I just switched the theme that powers this blog to the NigaRila theme by Sadish Bala. I have been looking for a great 3-column theme and Sadish has created one [...]

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Here's To New Beginnings

December 10, 2006

New Beginnings are awesome – It's already been a week at my new job and I am having a blast. After more than 7 years at my old job at Strong and then Wells Fargo (acquisition), it's great to be doing something different. I love change, especially if it's the right change for [...]

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Vista woes continue

December 7, 2006

My Vista woes continue as I try and fail to pgrade my Office 2003 installation to Microsoft Office 2007. I tried installing the Enterprise edition of Microsoft Office 2007 and the install fails about 20% into it with the following message:
Error 1310. Error writing to c:\config.msi\4f8d86e.rbf. Verify that you have access to that [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for Dec 05, 2006

December 5, 2006

A Primer on Spring's Data Access Object (DAO) Framework
This article is a primer on DAO design pattern, highlighting its merits and demerits. It then introduces the Spring 2.0 JDBC/DAO framework and demonstrates how it elegantly addresses the drawbacks in traditional DAO design.
(tags: java javaee j2ee dao design+patterns spring jdbc weblogic dev2dev spring2.0)

Running PHP on BEA [...]

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