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 [...]

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 [...]

A couple of weeks ago Sys-Con published various industry opinions of what we’d see in 2007 in many of it’s magazines. The article showed-up on Slashdot (with a misleading title) among other places and included various industry luminaries. A couple of people you might of heard of contributed to the article including David [...]

Adam Bien covers how to reduce the size of JAR packages in Java 5 & 6 here. An example he shows starts at 44 MB and gets reduced down to 6 MB– impressive!

Java 6 Standard Edition has been released and can be downloaded here. The long winded version of what’s new can be read here, while the summary of new features and changes can be found here.
Personally I don’t know if I’ll be working on anything in 1.6 anytime soon as 1.5 is still the current [...]

I must say I work with a really amazing team at work, and there is rarely a day we don’t get into complex technical discussions about anything from “what algorithm is the best to do x” to getting into deep geeky details about how certain platforms work such as the Hotspot compiler in Java. [...]

Though I have a different focus at the moment, something I keep in the back of my head is DAO and ORM material as I’ll eventually be embarking on a very data heavy project. Without getting into specifics, it would seem logical that an ORM implementation to access the data in the aforementioned project [...]

…you’re tempted to contact the database vendor providing the driver and open yet another ticket because you think this method in said driver returns an incorrect value:

public boolean jdbcCompliant()
{
return true;
}

Although this one might be a good one to [...]

As reported earlier, SourceForge has finally enabled Subversion support for all projects. Perhaps this is the proverbial kick I’ve needed to post a few very minor open source tools I’ve been working on in CF, Python, and Java somewhere in a workable manner (with documentation– *gasp*).

Well, wouldn’t you know it, I’m currently in finals week for my Computing Theory class and I finally came across a list of tools to help with the class when looking for some CFG to CNF examples to make sure I understood said translation correctly. I wish I’d came across these earlier to check [...]