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March 2004

Process Driven Development Webinar

March 29, 2004

BEA is hosting a free webinar entitled 'Process Driven Development' on Wednesday, April 7th. In this webinar, Garrett Conaty, Principal Technologist at BEA, will walk you through various technologies and best practices used to rapidly build Service Oriented Applications from requirements to implementation to production. He will start with business use cases [...]

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Servlet Filters as poor man's AOP

March 25, 2004

I was just discussing this idea of Servlet Filters with a friend and I was trying to explain to him how Filters work and how they are really aspects in the AOP world. I think filters are really incredibly helpful and yet very few developers know about them and even fewer developers implement them. [...]

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Books I'm currently reading

March 23, 2004

I am a voracious book collector and (usually) reader as well. I love books and could spent hours reading – Just sad when life and work get in the way. Books I am currently reading include:
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan… by Steve CollMind Wide Open : Your Brain and [...]

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Java Examples in a Nutshell – Book Review

March 21, 2004


In this 3rd edition, author David Flanagan has updated the book with coverage of Java 1.4. In keeping with the tradition of the other nutshell books, this book is an instant must-have book. This book [...]Java Examples in a Nutshell, 3rd Editionby David FlanaganPaperback: 720 pagesPublisher: O'Reilly & Associates; 3rd edition (January 1, 2004)ISBN: 0596006209

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No Best Practices: Thinking about Methodology

March 18, 2004

The Milwaukee SPIN Group (Software Process Improvement Network) is having its meeting tonight (March 18, 2004) and the topic for tonight's talk is 'No Best Practices: Thinking about Methodology' by James Bach.
James Bach is a founding member of the Context-Driven School of Test Methodology and the author of Lessons Learned in Software Testing: A [...]

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Bruce Tate @ the Wisconsin Java Users Group

March 18, 2004

The topic for the next Wisconsin Java Users Group meeting is Java Persistence Strategies with Bruce Tate. Bruce is the author of Bitter Java and Bitter EJB. More information about the meeting and location at http://www.wjug.org/wjug/nextmeeting.jsp. The meeting is on Tuesday, March 23rd, 2004.

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IPod Mini: Small Is Beautiful

March 15, 2004

I just read the story titled IPod Mini: Small Is Beautiful in Wired Magazine and I have to completely, wholeheartedly agree with the article. Talk about love at first sight. My friends Chris and Douglas each bought an iPod mini and the mere site of one will make you buy one. Be [...]

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BEA eWorld's coming

March 11, 2004

BEA eWorld 2004 is coming up fast and I am still not registered for it. I've been to the last 3 out of the 4 eWorlds and I am pretty disappointed I am going to miss this one. As you probably know, BEA eWorld is in San Francisco at the Moscone Center, May [...]

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Making Java VM thread-dumps more meaningful

March 8, 2004

BEA's dev2dev has published a great article on thread dumps and tools for making the reading and parsing of them easier. For the uninitiated, thread dumps show the state of all threads at that point in time for any given process including a JVM. In UNIX, sending a process a -3 or -QUIT [...]

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Java Servlet and JSP Cookbook

March 4, 2004

In the great tradition of cookbooks, O'Reilly has published the Java Servlet and JSP Cookbook. This book, written by Bruce W. Perry is a must-own book for anyone working with web applications in the Java space. I've been a Java developer for almost 8 years now and have been working with Servlets since [...]

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iPod Mini – Daddy like! :)

March 1, 2004

I want one, now! My friends Chris and Douglas went out this past weekend and each picked up new iPod Minis. I got a chance to play with Douglas's mini today and I just feel in love. I already own a 30GB iPod and I want one of these Mini's now. [...]

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[OT] Pepsi & iTunes

March 1, 2004

The Pepsi/iTunes promotion is a great idea and it's got me hooked. I had given up drinking any kind of soda in lieu of water years ago. But the Pepsi/iTunes promotion has me hooked – I am now going out of my way to buy Diet Pepsi's to win the free songs on [...]

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