design

Subject to Change: Creating Great Products and Services for an Uncertain World

Overtly, the intent of this book is to convince companies that they must change or die; however, I believe this is true of departments within organizations and individuals as well. The recommended...

0 replies - 983 views - 10/03/08 by Burk Hufnagel in Book Reviews

DbWrench Database Design v1.5.1

Version 1.5.1 of this database design and round-trip engineering software has been released.

0 replies - 855 views - 09/03/08 by Harnek R in Announcements

Boxers or Briefs, Stateful or Stateless

In this article, I'll compare two opposing design paradigms for session data management in a session-based online application. Which is better, stateful or...

3 replies - 3171 views - 08/11/08 by Nick Maiorano in Articles

Do You Anthropomorphize When Coding?

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 - 3193 views - 08/10/08 by Tim Boudreau in Articles

DbWrench Database Design v1.5.0

Version 1.5.0 of this database design and round-trip engineering software has been released.

2 replies - 1327 views - 07/24/08 by Harnek R in Announcements

Free Book: Java Testing and Design

This book shows how to understand what application you want to write, what strategies are likely to get you there, and then how to measure your level of...

0 replies - 4478 views - 06/17/08 by Nitin Bharti in Uncategorized

DbWrench Database Design v1.4.7

Version 1.4.7 of this database design and round-trip engineering software has been released.

0 replies - 731 views - 05/21/08 by Harnek R in Announcements

Structure101 Now Free for Use On Open Source Projects

Structure101, from Headway Software, makes software structure (design, architecture and packaging) easy to understand, define, communicate, control and...

2 replies - 2501 views - 03/17/08 by Paul Hickey in Announcements

JavaFX - component creation

This article describes how to create new components for the JavaFX platform with an emphasis on the use of graphical facilities in building GUI.

2 replies - 2599 views - 02/24/08 by Sergey Surikov in Tips and Tricks