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		John Reynolds john.reynolds@secondpath.org 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. Weblogs Who will pay for innovation? Back in 1973, a young Bill Gates was demonized for asking the following: "Who can afford to do professional work for... Java EE app servers: Why pay for support? With Sun's decision to "Open Source" their Java EE app server, it's likely that all Java EE app servers will soon be free. The next big thing in IM/email/blogging: the Rudeness CheckerTM Janet Heiss's recent blog entry got me thinking about socially relevant technology.... First came the... Pondering Pisa If I asked you to list the most famous structures in the world, the Leaning Tower of Pisa would probably show up in your top 10 responses. Java Business Integration, JSR 208, passes final ballot Java Business Integration, JSR 208, will probably lead to a new crop of JBI-based ESB (Enterprise Service Bus)offerings. One of the first is... Open Office and Java - I'm for it From a recent java.net news entry: "As OpenOffice.org 2.0 approaches version 2.0 final it is being meet increasingly with... Uncertainty may not be what you think it is Tom Koulopoulos was the keynote speaker at a conference that I attended last week. He's a really bright guy and a very... Happy Ending to the Netbeans "Replace Dialog" tale NetBeans 4.1 Update: Hurrah! NetBeans 4.1 has "fixed" the replace dialog problem... Process Driven Design and JBI (Java Business Integration) I am a big advocate for Process Driven Design. Remedial Programming Classes? I came across a disturbing factoid this morning: "U.S. Clustering's new alternative The current approach for scaling J2EE applications is to cluster application servers. Some really good work has been done and clustering has improved to the point where it's a basic commodity.... GNU licenses and small startups Every coin has two sides... I recently blogged a lament regarding obstacles to the use LGPL'ed... Keep the objective in mind My wife and I are not the most practical people in the world. Engineer, Conductor or Brakeman? I was in a meeting the other day where one of my colleagues joked about a manager at our company who insists on calling our staff "Programmers" rather then "Software Engineers". I responded that I... Java and scripts and pipes All the recent ramblings about Groovy and Jython makes me wonder: What makes scripting so powerful? Let's start with what a "script" is: In a play a script tells the actors... Robocode goes Open Source I came across Robocode a few years ago and was instantly delighted. On first glance, Robocode is an arcade game. Robot tanks roam a virtual... Making things too easy Dick Wall's articles on "Integrating Sun Java Studio Creator Into Your Development Process" have got me thinking again on reasons... The Same Big Things The techno-clairvoyants have been strangely quiet of late... so I am left on my own to predict what "The Next Big Thing" is going to be. TSSJS Impressions - We won; Now what do we do? I had intended to write a running blog at the TSSJS, but that didn't happen. AJaX: Two steps forward... Two steps back? Day one of TSSJS has been a mix of wow! and doh! Like Ed, I've been intrigued by the promise of... PDA blogging woes at the TSSJS I am here in Las Vegas at the 2005 TSSJS and trying to use my... Why is so much software so bad? Why is so much software so bad? I've read or heard this question thousands of times, and I repeatedly ask this question myself (I am sometimes embarrassed to be a programmer when my non-... Pragmatic Web Forms: WebForms2 I recently came across a discussion of WebForms2, and after checking out the links I've come away pleasantly optimistic that... News from a Parallel Universe: JSF and Tapestry project leads agree on future course At the upcoming TheServerSide Java Symposium in a parallel universe, the... A cautionary LGPL tale I am a big fan of Open Source software; in fact I canâ€™t imagine doing my job without it. Itâ€™s great to be able to benefit from shared code, and life as a programmer has certainly been a lot more... Objects, Components, Web Services and BPEL Robert Sessions has published a good article discussing the “fuzzy boundaries... Off Topic Thoughts about NASA and the Hubble This has very little to do with Java, except reminding us that it is important to keep thinking outside the box... 'Fix it' or 'crash it' aren't NASA's only Hubble options: Recent reports... Certification or indoctrination? Daniel's recent blog on the new J2SE certification exam gives me hope... reducing trivia and tricks is a step... The SOA Elevator Speech Here are some notes from a "brown bag" talk that I am preparing for our IT staff, many of whom are died-in-the-wool mainframe COBOL programmers.... Privately famous Most folks are familiar with Andy Warhol's prediction: "In the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes". « first ‹ previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 next › last »