In Economics theory, you learn about capital investment. This is investing in more modern infrastructure, more productive factories or tools, and so forth,...
2 replies - 2801 views - 01/22/09 by John Ferguson Smart in Articles
In early December, I spoke at SpringOne Americas and delivered a session on OSGi. Whenever I speak about application design or architecture, I always ask the...
3 replies - 3683 views - 01/08/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in Articles
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 - 3297 views - 01/06/09 by James Sugrue 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 - 12274 views - 12/19/08 by James Sugrue in Articles
When I read about Project Jigsaw recently, the resurrection of the plan to modularize the JDK and follow OSGi I was between two minds about it. But the main...
3 replies - 4144 views - 12/17/08 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 - 2941 views - 12/12/08 by Tom Meier 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 - 5842 views - 11/20/08 by Jay Fields in News
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 - 3731 views - 10/31/08 by Frederic Simon in Articles
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 - 8004 views - 10/28/08 by Jon Davis in News
Having spent many years on different online communities and forums, not least JavaLobby, I've noticed some trends about how developers act from behind their...
17 replies - 8782 views - 09/19/08 by James Sugrue in Articles
Podcasting has become the talk radio of the Internet era. Beginning a podcast is easier than starting a radio station, but it's still hard to assemble the...
0 replies - 1911 views - 09/12/08 by Meera Subbarao in Articles
A new white paper by International Data Corporation (IDC), found
existing software quality approaches at most companies are inadequate
to address the internal...
7 replies - 2228 views - 08/21/08 by Martin steve in News
In my time here on the oil mine I have had a lot of time to think and observe and one thing is for certain, perspective on something makes a big difference in...
0 replies - 2191 views - 08/14/08 by AnneBotha in Articles
I recently wrote, in this blog about state management, threading and API design, the following (talking about a refactored SwingWorker with the state...
9 replies - 4133 views - 08/10/08 by Tim Boudreau in Articles
