04 Mar
Posted by: Brandon Harper in: ColdFusion, Culture, Disciplines, Django, Frameworks, Java, Languages, Python, Ruby, Ruby On Rails, Software Engineering, Tech News
As both a fan and user of the great technologies Python, and the Sun JVM (primarily via Java), I was very happy to come across this eWeek article which says that Sun announced the hiring of two key Python engineers. You can read more about the hiring of Ted Leung and Frank [...]
06 Dec
Posted by: Brandon Harper in: Disciplines, Java, Languages, OS X, Operating Systems, Software Engineering, Tech News, Tips, Hacks, & Tricks
For those many of you (including myself) who have been waiting almost a year now for Java 6 to be properly supported on the Mac, the wait is over if you’re a developer– Landon Fuller has released SoyLatte 1.0, which is a port of FreeBSD Java 6 to MacOS X which will eventually end-up as [...]
01 Nov
Posted by: Brandon Harper in: Algorithms, Computer Science, Culture, Data Structures, Design Patterns, Disciplines, Software Engineering, Tech News, Tips, Hacks, & Tricks
Having came across several interesting stories within the past week or two which were all career related, it reminded me of all of the good resources I’ve came across over the past few years related to the craft of Software Engineering. Maybe you’re just looking to get started in Software Development [...]
18 Aug
Posted by: Brandon Harper in: Algorithms, Computer Science, Culture, Disciplines, Operating Systems, Software Engineering, Tech News, Tips, Hacks, & Tricks
One great thing about the blogowebs is that you never know what sorts of posts you might run across, and this post about self-modifying code and the Space Shuttle OS is a prime example of that:
And it reminded me of my days during the early 1990s working as a software engineer on the Space Shuttle [...]
18 Mar
Posted by: Brandon Harper in: Disciplines, Frameworks, Java, Languages, Software Engineering, Spring, Tech News, Tips, Hacks, & Tricks
Google recently released yet another interesting piece of Java machinery, Guice. Given the direction that Spring 2.0 is going in, this looks like a good alternative if you’re looking for a simple dependency injection framework. If you’re curious about what is different between Guice and Spring, you can read more about their differences [...]
26 Feb
Posted by: Brandon Harper in: A Day In The Life Of, Culture, Disciplines, OS X, Operating Systems, Software Engineering, Tips, Hacks, & Tricks, Tools
This past Friday marked the end of the second week at my new job which has brought many changes for me. I left a good sized development team at large company for the uncertainty for a VC funded start-up without revenue, I’m miles from a ColdFusion server and instead am working on a Java [...]
08 Feb
Posted by: Brandon Harper in: Computer Science, Disciplines, Java, Languages, Software Engineering
Not to directly pick on Peter Bell at all (he’s a very smart guy and I really enjoy his blog, so this is nothing personal at all), I just noticed something he mentioned in a recent comment on a blog entry and felt that it was something I should address in a blog post rather [...]
31 Jan
Posted by: Brandon Harper in: Culture, Disciplines, Java, Languages, Software Engineering, Tech News, Tips, Hacks, & Tricks
I was quite surprised to come across a post by Bruce Eckel, one of the founders of the C++ ISO committee as well as a popular Java author and trainer, essentially evangelizing the use of Flash and Flex to get around UI problems which exist in traditional web applications. I think it’s quite an [...]
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