No Fluff Just Stuff – Dallas Day 1 Eve…
... 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…
Keith Donald Delivers Great Spring Web Products Talk…
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…
The smartest thing DHH has ever said…
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…
SpringFramework’s JavaConfig…
I have to admit, I was very impressed with Ryan Breidenbach's Spring JavaConfig talk tonight at the Spring Dallas User Group. I don't hide the fact that I'm a big…
I’m giving a Java FX talk…
I have volunteered to give a talk on Java FX. Why? Hmm... Let me explain... There is this great new Java user group that started here in Dallas back in…
Who Likes Spring MVC?
Who likes Spring MVC out there? Are you using annotation-driven Spring MVC with the 2.5 features? To me all the @RequestMapping annotations just make controller code harder to read. Call…
Favorite Notepad Replacements…
I'm looking for a notepad replacement for my new Vista laptop. I've used them all. I'm wondering what others like and why. Please provide feedback. :) The notepad replacements I've…
How much does free cost???
ONE BILLION DOLLARS (obviously, that must be read in a Dr. Evil voice).... Sun just paid $1,000,000,000 for MySQL. WTF!?!? Did Sun not realize that MySQL is a free friggin'…
Ant vs Maven Argument…
Nope, you aren't getting one here. I've argued Ant over Maven dozens of times in my life. Most recently, last night. :) But, I'm not gonna start the argument again.…
iPhone Users…
I'm considering buying an iPhone. To those of you out there that have one.... are you happy with it? What do you like about it? What do you dislike? Do…