It's that time of year where I try to decide what technologies I'm going to focus on for the next few months, a developer's new year resolutions. 2008 was a...
2 replies - 3298 views - 01/06/09 by James Sugrue in Articles
This is my first JavaLobby post without JavaFX in the title, so please bear with me :-) Anyway, I have a simple question to which I suspect there is no...
12 replies - 3105 views - 12/23/08 by Jim Weaver in Articles
2008 was a pretty eventful year for the Java community. A huge focus on JavaFX, the release of Java 6 Update 10 and the rise of OSGi are just some of the...
12 replies - 12284 views - 12/19/08 by James Sugrue in Articles
I have been making New Year's resolutions for a long, long time. I don’t even remember when I actually started making them either. Yes, it has been so...
3 replies - 6441 views - 12/16/08 by Meera Subbarao in Articles
Just today I came across a post referring to the agile manifesto. We have it framed on the wall just beside the door to our office. It usually doesn't get...
5 replies - 2943 views - 12/12/08 by Tom Meier in Articles
For the purpose of being recession proof, Java programmers should diversify what they spend their time learning. Specifically, Java programmers should add...
4 replies - 2738 views - 12/03/08 by robertjmiller in Articles
Tim Bray has written an insightful piece describing his perscription for a healthier Sun, at the end he suggested others might want to do the same, so here is...
11 replies - 3919 views - 11/26/08 by Ian Skerrett in Articles
Yes, that's a bold statement, but I've waited 13 years to be able to say it. If you've followed my blog or have heard me speak about JavaFX, you know that I...
16 replies - 2732 views - 11/25/08 by Jim Weaver in Articles
If you read my blog entry on Language Specialization you might have concluded that I prefer generalists. If, in our industry, generalists were what the...
1 replies - 5843 views - 11/20/08 by Jay Fields in News
I think of bugs as being classified into three fundamental kinds of bugs.
12 replies - 19242 views - 11/18/08 by mhevery in Articles
Sun Microsystems announced today that it would be laying off 6,000 employees (18% of it’s workforce) in an attempt to better realign itself with “global...
35 replies - 7961 views - 11/15/08 by Riyad Kalla in Articles
I always thought that the GOF Design Patterns book achieved it's objective to make us better C++/Java programmers. It taught us how to design polymorphic class...
5 replies - 4963 views - 11/10/08 by Debasish Ghosh in Articles
I'm not optimistic, but here is a
fact: For more than 20 years (since the 1987 crash) or in some cases
since the usage of computers in companies, the IT...
3 replies - 3732 views - 10/31/08 by Frederic Simon in Articles
Didn't you just totally sell out? -- Obie Fernandez @ Rails Summit Latin AmericaObie and I are good friends. He wasn't trying to insult me. I was talking about...
5 replies - 6251 views - 10/30/08 by Jay Fields in News
I was watching a television show on PBS (viewer-sponsored educational
public broadcasting) about brain health. The speaker was Daniel G.
Amen, author of the...
6 replies - 8007 views - 10/28/08 by Jon Davis in News
