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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 Too old to program? I was drawn to E-Surfer's recent weblog entry that asks the question: "Could I Still Pursue Software Development... The Rich Web Client conundrum Rich Web based applications are far from "new", but there still doesn't seem to be a general consensus on how they should be constructed. To the contrary, there are a dizzying array of options for... Adolescence isn't all that it's cracked up to be Brian Marick recently blogged: "I worry that the adolescence of computers is almost over, and that we're settling into that... Tapestry Component Examples: contrib:Tree and contrib:Table In response to some gentle prodding, I have created a suit of examples on how to use the... Fashion and Function... Why not? Somehow, the Desktop PC market became a "one-size-fits-all" wasteland... and the mobile PC market isn't much better, but just when you thought the only improvement to the world of the booring beige... Learn by Teaching: Examples using the Tapestry Table component There's an old saying that the best way to learn something is to teach it. I've been evaluating the Tapestry Web Component Framework for... Someone's listening Sun made my day! The open letter from Sun regarding Java persistence is wonderful news... Sun has made public their support... A Tale of Two Dialogs - Replacing Text in Netbeans and Eclipse I downloaded the NetBeans 4.0 beta, and I have to say that it's pretty slick. Two years ago, I switched from the Sun One Community Edition to Eclipse, and I am very happy with that choice, but I... Creating custom components for Echo-Hangman In an earlier blog entry I discussed "porting" the hangman game example described in Chapter 2 of Howard M. Lewis Ship's... Echo-ing the Tapestry Hangman example Hangman: the "Hello World" of web component frameworks? To get the most out of this article, please ... Public plea to the EJB 3.0 expert group: Please review the EJB 2.0 CMP and JDO FAQ Lance Anderson's recent blog " EJB 3.0 Spec is available for Early Draft Review" got me fired up again. My apologies in advance for sounding... Bigger fish to fry A few years ago I became the Development Manager for a small InfiniBand software startup. I had been a Team Lead for some time, but this was the... Dyson's Meta-Mail: merging email with business processes While browsing the news feeds I came across an interesting article by Esther Dyson on the topic of "Meta-Mail".... Fluffless Stuff in Austin Jay Zimmerman brought his travelling road-show "No Fluff Just Stuff" to Austin this past weekend, and it was great fun. If you aren't... Improve JSF by Decoupling Form Rules from Presentation Components Thoughts on J2EE, Spaceship One, and getting back to the moon NASA It's time for RDBMS Change Notification Services It is a safe bet that relational databases will be around for a very long time. The relational model is well past middle age (it was... Lessons from BEA eWorld 2004 Last week I blogged on my day-to-day experiences at BEA eWorld. Now I am ready to reflect on what I learned. It’s easy to get caught up in... BEA eWorld 2004 day-by-day Day One: I have to admit that I will always accept any excuse to visit San Franciso, so I jumped at the chance when my boss asked if anyone should attend this years BEA eWorld. Beehive or hornet's nest? - BEA donates code to Apache There's a rather odd thread at The Server Side that is generally criticizing BEA for... A second look at BPELJ I have had time to re-read the joint IBM and BEA whitepaper on BPELJ. My initial reaction was "Yuck". Intermingling Java snippets with XML... Anti-Pattern - The Swiss Army Effect When I was old enough to join the Cub Scouts, my father got me a really impressive Swiss Army Knife. For an 8 year old boy this gift was pretty cool, and I proudly lugged the thing around with me on... Coding for your own legacy I fear that most programmers (myself included) usually think of the word "legacy" as something bad, as in the following article: ... Data access sanity check One of the first tasks that I performed for my employer was to diagnose and resolve a several minutes long CPU spike on the database server for one of our J2EE applications. All of our servers were... Is Java popular in spite of its standards? Mention JSPs positively in a blog and you will undoubtably get flamed. Encourage colleagues to use Entity Beans and you may never be taken seriously again. JDO was crippled for many by the lack... BPELJ - Good idea or bad dream? IBM and BEA have just released a joint white paper on BPELJ, a combination of BPEL and the Java programming language: ... Aspects of Persistence - What should CMP and JDO share? My response Make JDO the "P" in CMP to Bruce Tate's article For JDO, the Time Is Now... Make JDO the "P" in CMP Bruce Tate's article "For JDO, the Time Is Now" brings up many good points, but it misses a key concern of mine: Solutions that... JSR 175, JBoss and AOP Marc Fleury came to Austin this week and took the opportunity to speak at the monthly Austin JUG meeting. This was the first time that I'd heard Marc... PD4J - Is Process Driven Design the next big thing? According to the published schedule, the final specification for JSR-207, Process Definition for Java (PD4J), will soon be released. « first ‹ previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 next › last »