Java/J2EE

History of Web Frameworks

February 23, 2010

Matt Raible created this great visualization of the history of Web frameworks. Here’s the image: Originally uploaded by mraible.

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I love Wordle

February 11, 2009

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide and I love playing with it. Every couple of weeks, I’ll stumble onto Wordle again and fall in love all over again . Here is a tag cloud of all of the tags from my del.icio.us bookmarks. Go create your tag/word clouds [...]

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iTunes & Ehcache – You figure it out

April 5, 2008

Thanks to Greg Luck, I discovered something new in iTunes called My iTunes that lets you export your purchases out as RSS or as a widget to display on your website. Check out a sample of my purchases below – With DRM free music from Amazon, I’m not buying anything from iTunes that’s available on [...]

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Books I am currently reading

December 23, 2007

As I’ve said before, I am a voracious book collector and (usually) reader as well. I love books and could spend hours reading. With a demanding job, a wife and a young daughter, I’ve built up quite a backlog and hope to get to most of these books in the next few weeks. Here are [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for Apr 03, 2007

April 3, 2007

From Java EE security to Acegi – The right way to protect your Web applications – This article is an in-depth introduction and comparison of Java EE security and Acegi. They both offer a variety of security services to make application security programming easier. The declarative and annotation-based programming methodologies let devel Microsoft Watch – [...]

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