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John Reynolds is a Santa Fe (as in New Mexico) based programming mentor 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.

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Java EE should be an implementation

There, I've put it in writing... Enough of this madness.

Traveling Guy

I left my house at 6 am on Monday to catch a flight from Austin Bergstrom to Chicago Midway. During my 2 hour layover waiting for a connecting flight to Providence RI, I participated in a...

The Twin Paradox

My friend King sent me a link to this...

Fear of the Unseen...

Many problems that businesses have with software seem to involve visibility. The role that specific software components play within an organization are often hidden, obscured, or just plain...

Kitchens and Fast Food Factories

Recently I've begun thinking that a Kitchen vs. Fast Food Factory analogy...

Why are we going?

Fabrizio Giudci's recent blog, Where are we going?, prompts me to ask: Why are we going?

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CDW's "Fred" vs. Microsoft's "Bill"

CDW and Microsoft are each running ad campaigns featuring IT support guys... Which one would you rather work with?

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Human-Powered Web Services

As SOA has become a more mainstream IT concept... you...

The Era of Process-Centric Design

If you follow my postings, then you won't be surprised to learn that I think we are at the dawn of a new era in programming. As with all previous eras...

Business Process Musings

For the past few months I've been working with a very polished Business Process Management (BPM) suite from Lombardi Software...

Open software pragmatism - Free (as in beer) isn't the point

Back in the mid-90's I was working on the user interface for a Windows desktop application that included a fairly sophisticated cross between a table and a tree component. We wanted to display a...

Thoughts on "The Modular JRE" and Open Sourcing Java

David Herron posted a clarification of "what it means to be Java" on his blog, and the examples that he...

Is the End of Tiered-Based Computing in Sight?

This morning I came across a whitepaper from GigaSpaces entitled: Space-Based Architecture and The End of Tier-based Computing...

Disconnected Browser-Centric Clients

There is a huge paradigm gap between writing a desktop application with something like Swing, and writing a browser-based application...

Why Use A Database Instead Of ____?

A recent blog entry by Simon Morris questions the usefulness of including a relational database (JavaDB)...

Off topic blog on Distracted Drivers...

I saw a lot of bad driving on my vacation last week, and it led me to write this blog entry on...

Why JMatter matters - a wake-up call for programmers

My fellow blogger Eitan Suez open-sourced jMatter last week...

Objects are Nouns... Services are Verbs... SOA hinges on designing the right Verbs

I still find postings that express confusion about the relationship between object-oriented architectures and service-oriented architectures... so I would again like to offer my own $0.02 worth of...

JSF and AJAX versus Swing

Evan Summers wrote a very good blog on "Swing versus everything else" a few days ago, and it started me...

John Gage's Ad-Hoc Keynote - WCIT2006

Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson (R.

Security and Privacy - WCIT2006

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Exchanging Innovative Ideas - WCIT2006

My memories of Tuesday's WCIT2006 Innovation Exchange are a bit of a blur, but it sure was fun. I volunteered to help out, and was assigned to help usher speakers to and from the podium... We...

Internet-Access For All - WCIT2006 in Austin

One big focus of Austin's WCIT2006 is to develop strategies to bridge the digital divide between "Us" (...

The World (of IT) Heads To Austin

The World Conference on Information Technology (WCIT) is coming to Austin this year... and it should be a lot of fun. This event is held every other year in...

Teaching Kids to be Thoughtful Programmers

(Cross-posted at The Thoughtful Programmer)

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"Programmer to the Stars" Bruce Tate spotted at swanky North Austin establishment

"What? No...

Product Architecture from a software perspective

I recently worked with an Enterprise Architecture team to develop a "holistic product architecture" to unify the design of the company's products.

When we...

Ken Orr's advice to Java programmers (and the secrets of writing good software)

Recently I had the pleasure of sitting down with Ken Orr (of Warnier-Orr Diagram...

Software for Business People (like my dad)

My father ran a small-town employee credit union in the 1960s and early 70s when most small organizations still used paper to store their records. Information for each...

Is an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) appropriate for volume-performance critical consumer applications?

In response to my SOA/ESB Level Set blog entry, I got the following question from cparziale:...

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