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Java/J2EE

BEA Workshop Studio and Ubuntu

August 2, 2006

I have been following BEA’s acquisition of M7 to see what happens to the NitroX product. We are a big WebLogic shop and so I was curious to see what BEA is going to bake in the new release of NitroX renamed Workshop Studio. The new Workshop Suite is based on the Callisto [...]

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It’s the little things – Google rocks

July 5, 2006

It’s the little things that someone does right that I find interesting and cool. Case in point – Google. A bunch of us were talking about the Worldcup and we wanted to know when France was playing Portugal. So I go to Google as always and type in ‘worldcup fifa’ to find [...]

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Marquette Congratulates Dwyane Wade (via Cracked Sidewalk)

June 22, 2006

via Cracked Sidewalks.

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Java 6.0 (MUSTANG) jumps the shark

June 16, 2006

Am I the only one that thinks that Sun has completely lost its mind and jumped the shark? Is Graham Hamilton still making these decisions? First they stick a JavaScript interpreter inside the VM and then they add an http server on top of that and now they want to stick a database [...]

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Google’s Picasa Web Albums – No Flickr Killer, Yet!

June 14, 2006

Google launched a beta version of the Picasa Web Albums earlier in the week and I got invited to participate in the beta of the product. Picasa Web Albums is Picasa’s newest feature, designed to help users post and share their photos quickly and easily on the web.
Picasa has always had [...]

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Scoble News Bogs Down Podtech.net (via Netcraft)

June 13, 2006

I guess this is a good problem to have – Netcraft is reporting that PodTech.net’s web site is struggling to handle all that link love generated by Scoble’s announcement about leaving Microsoft and joining Podtech.net. I guess I am probably just adding to the noise and making the problem worse.

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The impact of Scoble

June 12, 2006

It’s great to see all the coverage of Scoble leaving Microsoft – For the uninitiated, Robert Scoble is a very popular blogger that works for Microsoft and Robert achieved what millions and millions of dollars could not do. Through his blog, Scoble humanized Microsoft and offered some much needed transparency that led a lot [...]

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Network Neutrality: Why it really matters?

June 7, 2006

Let’s hope Congress does the right thing and adds in adequate protection to guarantee Network Neutrality as life without it could really suck. Can you imagine a world where people who use Verizon as their ISP not being able to get to Google as Microsoft is paying Verizon to make MSN the preferred search [...]

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Google hits a home run with Google Spreadsheet

June 6, 2006

I just got my invite to play with the latest offering from Google, the Google Spreadsheets and my initial reaction after playing with it for the past hour is incredibly positive. Unlike some of the duds Google has launched recently, this is a pretty nice, robust and useful offering.

I started off by creating a [...]

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New PC while I wait for Vista Tablet

June 5, 2006

I finally broke down and ordered a new PC to replace my aging DELL desktop and Pentium-M laptops. What I really want is a smoking dual-core Tablet PC that will run Vista but got tired of waiting and so I’ve decided to get a desktop that will let me do the heavy lifting while I [...]

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Blog Post from Microsoft Word 2007

May 24, 2006

Just downloaded the latest beta of Microsoft Office 2007 and am testing out the blog posting feature. Microsoft Word has added functionality that allows you to create blog post and post them directly to your blog. They support most of the blog platform out of the box including MSN Spaces, Blogger, SharePoint, Community [...]

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A Profile In Courage

May 21, 2006

You’ve heard the old adage about how adversity builds character? Like many others, I believe that a person’s character is simply revealed when they are faced with adversity. Case in point – Pat Shanahan. Pat was a co-worker and a friend and he passed away a few days ago after a courageous fight [...]

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Declarative Caching Services for Spring

May 19, 2006

Declarative Caching Services for Spring by Alex Ruiz — Caching is an essential practice that improves the performance of enterprise applications. In this article, Alex Ruiz demonstrates a declarative caching framework for Spring 2.0, which supports pluggable cache implementations.

spring, spring2.0, caching, aspectj, AOP, SpringAOP, XStream

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Java2HTML does XHTML – And it validates!

May 7, 2006

I’ve been using the Java2HTML library for a while now and it’s been doing a great job in my usage as an Ant task. I discovered Markus Gebhard’s Java2HTML library a few years back and have been very happy with it. Markus has done a great job in creating this open source library [...]

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Software Architecture is Leadership

April 7, 2006

The latest edition of Bill Venners’s Artima Developer Newsletter has an article entitled Software Architecture is Leadership. The premise of this article is that a software architecture should not only explain how things are done in a software project, it should guide the team in that direction. Very interesting read, like everything Bill [...]

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An Introduction to the Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0 Specification

April 5, 2006

An Introduction to the Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0 Specification by Vimala Ranganathan and Anurag Pareek — The EJB 3.0 specification goes a long way toward making the EJB programming experience a pleasant one by simplifying development, facilitating test-driven development, and focusing more on plain Java objects. This article takes a look at the specification, and how [...]

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EVDO – How I love thee!

April 3, 2006

So I’m stuck here in Kansas City airport on my way to San Francisco and I not that upset as I have my trusty Sprint EVDO card with me and I’m getting an average of 1 MB download speed. Who needs WiFi when EVDO gives you all the bandwidth you need and it’s almost [...]

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WebLogic Console for Tomcat vs. Tomcat Probe

March 31, 2006

At last year’s BEA World, the conference formally known as eWorld, BEA announced the WebLogic Console for Tomcat. This add-in for the WebLogic console is finally here and I can’t wait to try it out. While I love WebLogic and use it for everything production, I do use Tomcat for some simple development tasks or [...]

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Proof that TestNG is THE best unit testing framework :)

March 29, 2006

BEA’s dev2dev is running a new poll that is asking the question, Which unit testing framework would you prefer to use? I guess I was the first one to hit the poll as the results speak for themselves

dev2dev, bea, unit-testing, tdd, testng, junit

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Using the Java Persistence API with Spring 2.0

March 24, 2006

Using the Java Persistence API with Spring 2.0 by Seth White — The Java Persistence API (JPA) and the version 2.0 release of the Spring Framework form a powerful combination. Author Seth White uses an updated version of BEA WebLogic Server’s medical records sample application to show how Spring 2.0 and JPA can be used [...]

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