This Friday is my last day doing Java work for what will probably be a long time. I’m leaving Smart Solutions and the Java Enterprise world to join Seeking Alpha, a financial blog network. I’ll be joining Dion and Jim, who are both Madison residents, so although everyone is home office based we’ll […]
Adding Steve Yegge to the A-List of Programmer Bloggers
Via Projectionist:
Michael K. - I just asked a former co worker why he hasn’t written an ant task to deploy their app
Michael K. - “dude - they pay me by the hour”
Michael K. - enterprise right there
Its monday morning and I forgot my coffee thermos at home. Drinking corporate coffee sucks. Guess I might as well complain about Java.
Calendar - Bad.
Date - Worse? Date and Calendar might be the most ridiculous Java APIs ever created. With date you can at least say getYear or getMonth, but then […]
I’ve been using HSQLDB for my in memory database testing, but I think its time to find something else. Things have been getting pretty painful lately and I’m wondering what kind of experience others have with the alternatives. My criteria are:
fast
easy to embed in a Java test suite - so basically just drop […]
When I’m cruising in Eclipse, nothing disrupts flow like having to fix stupid import problems. FOr example, I type in a reference to List and try to autocorrect it:
Oh! I wanted the standard collection type, not the AWT specific list! Here, Eclipse, let me tell you I need the the standard list […]
The No Fluff Just Stuff tour kicked off today. I made it down to Milwaukee in time, despite a frantic search for my keys that ended with finding them in my wife’s jacket (of course). After the registration and intro from Jay, I went over to see Stuart’s talk on Spring Dependancy Injection. […]
Bruce Eckel is organizing a very cool looking conference called
Programming the New Web. Go check out the possible topics, but since its an OpenSpaces conference I’m sure the conversation will ber all over the map. Its in Colorado, so all the skiiers should be happy. I’d be happy sitting in a lodge […]
Update: Welcome, Javalobby readers! You might be interested in the followup to this post. Thanks for the great feedback and suggestions.
Pragmatic Programmer by Andrew Hunt and David ThomasThis is absolutely required reading for any software developer, regardless of language. If you are lost when people are talking about “keeping it DRY” or […]
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