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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 Debugging tales - 'Improbable' != 'Impossible' This week my team re-learned the debuggers' mantra: "What you think is improbable probably isn't as improbable as you thought.". A horrible performance problem cropped up in an upcoming... Piercing through data abstractions Data Abstractions are wonderful things, except when they aren't. A recent request from my QA team lead brought me to this not-so-stunning conclusion. The request was pretty simple: "... Standing on the shoulders of giants.... We often hear George Santayana's adage: "Those who do not understand the past are destined to repeat it" Study history or you... Adventures with JMeter - Are Open Source tools worth the price? Where would the Java community be without "the kindness of strangers"? Pardon me for blogging this, but I feel the need to rant a bit about the SCO/Linux flap... In Tenessee William's A Streetcar Named Desire there is a memorable character named Blanche... UML and Process Definition for Java - JSR 207 Martin Fowler's blog on the Unwanted Modeling Language caught my eye and prompted me to re-examine my own feelings about... Field Validation Thoughts Here at my company our business is all about forms. I’m not talking about HTML forms; I’m talking about business forms such as loan applications, tax reporting statements, etc. Portability Thoughts I love the nifty features, but... Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Periodically, I like to sit back and take stock of how closely “computers” match my expectations of what they ought to be, and starting this blog seems to be as good... « first ‹ previous 1 2 3 4 5 6