After close to 6 months of planning, Dallas TechFest 2009 is… “in the books.” Planning and running an all-day tech conference with 40 presentations, 400+ (ok 401) attendees, X great sponsors, and Java and .NET developers is *totally* exhausting. I took Saturday off to relax and now I’m back on my laptop writing this review.
First, [...]
I was approached by one of the editors at Packt Publishing about doing a review of Spring Web Flow 2 Web Development. I obviously said yes, the title of this post *is* “Review of Spring Web Flow 2 Web Development” :) Plus, I really don’t have much experience with Spring Web Flow 2 (SWF2) and [...]
I’m adjusting to life as an Ubuntu user. How I got to being an Ubuntu user again is an ugly story of a failed Windows 7 install, more on that another time. One of the things I struggle with when using Ubuntu, is should I use the cmd-line and apt-get to update/upgrade/install software on [...]
I was lucky enough to be asked to preform a technical review of “Modular Java: Creating Flexible Applications with OSGi and Spring“. It’s Craig Walls‘ next book and it’s being published by the Pragmatic Programmers.
Craig does a great job of making the case for modular Java development with OSGi. He covers why we need to [...]
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
I’m been tasked with writing a presentation on the “Dynamics of Open Source.” I’ll be co-delivering the talk at the MPower Open User Conference next week. Why I’m doing this talk is another story for another post.
Anyhow, there is so much to say on this subject. I was hoping to solicit some feedback from some [...]
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
UPDATE:
I have Java support working with Google Chrome. I followed the video instructions left in the comments by Vladimir and I’m good. Watch this video or just know that you need Java SE 6 Update 10.
Google Chrome… I dig it, but it needs work. I guess Google’s “out” is that Chrome was released as Beta. It [...]
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Yup, I said it… Eclipse hates SVN. The way I see it, Eclipse treats Subversion like a red-headed stepchild. How long has Subversion been around now? Years and years, since 2000 to be exact. Yeah, it’s been around for 8 years. And Eclipse still only does a half-ass job of supporting subverion. The Eclipse Foundation [...]
… i.e. I’m going to No Fluff Just Stuff Dallas tomorrow. :) I’ve said it many times, but I’ll say it again… The No Fluff conference is one of the best training buys you can spend your money on. This will be my 5th No Fluff, and I’ve also attended 3 Spring Experience shows, and [...]
Last night the Spring Dallas User Group was lucky enough to convince Keith Donald to fly up and talk to us about the Spring Web products (Spring MVC, Spring Web Flow, Spring JavaScript, and Spring Faces). A large chunk of Keith’s talk was on annotation-based Spring MVC along with the Spring JavaScript product. [...]
I wanted to title this “The only smart thing DHH has ever said”, but that wouldn’t be fair. I just normally tune out when I see/read his rants about the greatness about Ruby/Rails. However, a recent post of his caught my eyes and sucked me in. DHH makes the claim that it’s [...]
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