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		John Reynolds john.reynolds@secondpath.org John Reynolds is an Austin (as in Texas) based programmer who has been professionally developing software since 1980. His primary focus has been on software usability and usefulness, dating back to his involvement with Tandy's DeskMate graphical environment in the late 80's. Java is his current language of choice, superceding a long relationship with C++ and an early affair with the irrepressible FORTH. Weblogs Donate $5 to Eclipse Even if you love Netbeans, don't you think Eclipse is worth $5? http://www.eclipse.org/donate/ Long time no post My last java.net blog was back in April... I really don't have anything Java relevent to share, just making sure that my java.net account doesn't go dormant. I'm now based in Santa Fe... Oracle buys Java I heard the news while driving home Monday night... This is really very good news for Java. The earlier acquisition talks of Sun by IBM would have provided significant resources, but let's... Applications as Process Activities If you are a Developer who builds sites where folks go to "do things", then I hope can inspire you to think a bit about those "things" as part of a larger Process. It's not a huge leap to... IBM buys Java Rumor has it that IBM is buying Java - and the company that spawned it. ... The Desktop is Dead (or at least terminally ill) Chris Adamson recently questioned the value of Swing 2 and I have to go one further... Isn't it time to... Programming or Software Engineering? There's an interesting thread going on over at InfoQ regarding the relationship between BPM and Software Engineering. ... Chickens and Eggs - Methodology and Tools Which came first? Object Oriented Methodology or Object Oriented Languages? ... Data Models that Mom can use? Back when I was working on Tandy's DeskMate we were trying to build a personal computer "that Mom... Just Enough to Not Be Dangerous My blog entry on User Manual Driven Development prompted... User Manual Driven Development ... Another look at Object Oriented versus Process Driven Design My friend Bob was troubled when I blogged "Object Only Programming is Silly". Bob knows from experience that life after OO is dramatically better than life was before OO... so my criticisms just don'... Is programming hard? Is Programming hard... Most Software Development Obstacles are ______ Fill in the blank in the following statement: Most Software Development Obstacles are ______ (A) Technical (B) Cultural If you answered (A), then... The Next Generation In Workflow? Tom Baeyens, of JBoss jBPM fame, published a great overview of BPM's past and possible future in his article:... Object Only Programming (and Modelling) Considered Silly Every so often I come across a blog entry that makes my own attempts to put my thoughts in writing seem pathetically inadequate. Net Beans (6.1) Page Flows NetBeans (6.1) Page Flows may be a small step towards Model Driven development: Read more here. Iterative Development I've had a surprisingly difficult time conveying my own definition of "Iterative Development" in the context of BPM development. If you are interested in such things,... Getting Tasks to the Right Users in a Managed Business Process Still don't quite understand what's different between "normal" programming and developing managed business processes? Perhaps this blog on... Drive the Path (process and data flow) Any tools can be used wrong, and I believe that's the reason many developers hate BPM. They just... My OLPC arrived! My "Give One, Get One" OLPC arrived, and it's a blast. Check out the snapshots at my other blog. Give One, Get One It's not too late to Give One and Get One... The One Laptop Per Child initiative may not be perfect, but why not support them anyway... The BPM Elevator Speech A few years ago I posted a short blog entry "The SOA Elevator Speech" to try to distill SOA into... Monolingual web toolkits: Phobos vs. GWT The JVM is well on its way to becoming a multi-lingual environment... "We don't see the need for BPM" My recent blog entry "Java Developers Hate BPM" was intended to stir up some... Why do Java developers hate BPM? Java developers hate BPM. The preceding sentence is (of course) intentionally tailored to be... The Anatomy of a Human Powered (web) Service Human Powered Services (HPS) are the piece of the puzzle that meshes BPM with SOA... With HPS in the mix choreographing Human and Autonomous services is seamless, without HPS in the mix... Making life simpler: the Java EE Operating System One of the biggest challenge for companies with Java EE based products is dealing with installation issues... ... Recyling old rants... Getter and Setter Methods I am far from the first person to rant about "Getter and Setter" methods... In search of a new acronym: SOW (Sevice Oriented Workflow) I find that saying "BPM stands for Business Process Management" results in blank stares from most of my fellow programmers, so coming up with a better explanation has been on my mind, and I am... 1 2 3 4 5 6 next › last »