Two nights ago [Jack Frosch](http://www.linkedin.com/in/jackfrosch) gave a great summary of the new features in Grails 2.3 at the [DFW Groovy - Grails User Group](http://www.dfw2gug.org/index.html#december2013). At the end of the meeting…
I was contacted by the people at Murach Books inquiring if I would like to start reviewing their books. Being a geek, and an avid tech reader, of course I…
Mac users are still waiting for Oracle / Apple to produce a simple download for using Java SE 7 on Macs running OS X. Until they provide one, the only…
Another year, another great Dallas TechFest event... There were some great new speakers, Ken Sipe was my favorite with his Gradle talks. Â The story on Gradle is one worth listening…
After close to 6 months of planning, Dallas TechFest 2009 is... "in the books."Â Planning and running an all-day tech conference with 40 presentations, 400+ (ok 401) attendees, X great…
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…
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…
I'm been tasked with writing a presentation on the "Dynamics of Open Source." Â I'll be co-delivering the talk at the MPower Open User Conference next week. Â Why I'm doing this…
UPDATE: I have Java support working with Google Chrome. Â I followed the video instructions left in the comments by Vladimir and I'm good. Â Watch this video or just know that…
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…