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Merry Marquette Christmas

December 18, 2008

The faculty, staff and students of Marquette University wish you and your loved ones a peaceful and blessed Christmas.

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Tragic events in Mumbai (Bombay), India

November 27, 2008

Mumbai, the city formerly known as Bombay (India) suffered another tragic terrorist attack on November 26, 2008. Mumbai is not a stranger to terrorism but this attack on and around the Taj Mahal hotel, a 105-year-old landmark near the water's edge, which is a national symbol and an icon, has definitely struck a nerve [...]

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The call that you don't expect…

October 28, 2007

My mom called me yesterday from the hospital with some terrible news. My father has suffered a massive heart attack and has passed away. My father was 67 years old and in relatively good health. He had suffered another heart attack 12 years ago but had really turned his life around after that event.
My father [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for Oct 10, 2007 through Oct 16, 2007

October 16, 2007


Adopting Struts 2.0 – Java World – Struts 2.0 carries much of the power of its predecessor but is simpler for developers to [...]1-800-GOOG-411 – Google's new 411 service is free, fast and easy to use. Give it a try now and see how simple it is to find and connect with local businesses for fre

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Daily del.icio.us for Oct 05, 2007 through Oct 08, 2007

October 8, 2007

Welcome to Tablecloth – Tablecloth is lightweight, easy to use, unobtrusive way to add style and behaviour to your html table elements. By simply adding 2 lines of code to your html page you will have styled and active tables that your visitors will love
Amazon's Dynamo – All Things Distributed – Dynamo is internal technology [...]

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Birthday Tribute to Baby Gavin

February 22, 2007

Gavin Winslow is beating the odds and is about to celebrate his first birthday. Gavin is my wife's cousin’s son and he was born on February 23, 2006 with end-stage renal failure, or congenital kidney failure. Gavy was born with only 10-15% function in one of his kidneys, and 0% functions in the [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for Feb 13, 2007

February 13, 2007

InfoQ: Introduction to OpenTerracotta
Open Terracotta allows threads in a cluster of JVMs to interact with each other across JVM boundaries using the same built-in JVM facilities extended to have a cluster-wide meaning. These clustering capabilities are injected into the bytecode of the appli
(tags: java terracotta clustering cluster opensource tutorial performance jvm aop bytecode spring pojo)

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Daily del.icio.us for Jan 31, 2007

January 31, 2007

Bram Smeets Blog » Spring & DWR – Ajax made Easy
Joe and I are pleased to announce that a new configuration mechanism is available when using DWR in conjunction with Spring
(tags: DWR Spring java SpringFramework spring2.0 ajax javascript)

Adobe – Developer Center : An architectural blueprint for Flex applications
I'm going to share a high-level architecture for [...]

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Still having a blast!

December 31, 2006

I cannot believe it's already been a month since I started my new job. Guess the old adage about time flying when you are having fun is true. I am having a blast at my new job and Artisan is an awesome place to work. In addition to truly loving what you [...]

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Here's to third place!

December 30, 2006

I found a really interesting article in The New Yorker magazine via Matt's blog. The article is a must-read but here's the article in a nutshell: Focus on profitability and not market share as market share doesn't always lead to profitability. The article looks at Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo and how Sony rules [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for Dec 26, 2006

December 26, 2006

New Java Framework For Data-Intensive Java on Multicore
DataRush is a light-weight (less than 3 MB on disk) but extremely powerful parallel processing engine framework. It's 100% Java and runs on Java 5 SE. It handles all the parallel programming for you including horizontal, vertical and pipeline parallelism
(tags: interesting java programming data multicore datarush)

The AJAX Framework [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for Dec 16, 2006

December 16, 2006

dev2dev: Exploring Ajax Runtime Offerings
This article attempts to sort through these frameworks and map some of the characteristics by which they can be compared. The hope is that the reader will come away with some tools to use for breaking down the collection of Ajax offerings in ways that mak
(tags: ajax architecture web2.0 java javaee [...]

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Here's To New Beginnings

December 10, 2006

New Beginnings are awesome – It's already been a week at my new job and I am having a blast. After more than 7 years at my old job at Strong and then Wells Fargo (acquisition), it's great to be doing something different. I love change, especially if it's the right change for [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for Nov 19, 2006

November 19, 2006

Why Gates wouldn’t trade places with Sony in console wars « Scobleizer – Tech Geek Blogger
They told me how console business works and why you need a console on the market for four years to make money.
(tags: microsoft sony xbox ps3 playstaion xbox360 business loss_leader scoble)

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Holy Bandwidth – Take 2

November 13, 2006

Just signed up for something called Road Runner Turbo which is the faster version of Road Runner cable Internet service that is supposed to provide up to 8 Mbps downstream and up to 512 Kbps upstream. And the results don't disappoint – Here is my bandwidth minutes after the upgrade:

Here is the before speed-test [...]

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Heaven on Earth – Maui, Hawaii

June 5, 2006

If there's heaven on earth, I am certain that place is Hawaii. My wife and I just came back from a week in Maui and we can't stop thinking about Maui – We are already planning our next trip there. I was lucky enough to win a merit trip from work and [...]

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A Profile In Courage

May 21, 2006

You've heard the old adage about how adversity builds character? Like many others, I believe that a person's character is simply revealed when they are faced with adversity. Case in point – Pat Shanahan. Pat was a co-worker and a friend and he passed away a few days ago after a courageous fight [...]

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An Inconvenient Truth

May 20, 2006

An Inconvenient Truth – This film offers a passionate and inspirational look at one man's fervent crusade to halt global warming's deadly progress in its tracks by exposing the myths and misconceptions that surround it. That man is former Vice President Al Gore, who, in the wake of defeat in the 2000 election, re-set the [...]

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Blog Vacation

May 6, 2006

My self-imposed blog vacation is over and I hope to start blogging with gusto again. Now I can't make any promises about blogging about stuff that is useful or interesting to read. Work has been really hectic as of late and my daughter is at that age where everything she does is [...]

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I know what I want for Christmas – or NOW!

January 5, 2006

DELL has a released a 30-inch Widescreen Digital Flat-Panel that's capable of doing 2560 x 1600 (WQXGA). Yikes! It will set you back about $2200.00.

From DELL's site:

The Dell UltraSharp 3007WFP 30-inch Wide-screen Flat Panel LCD Monitor is a wide aspect desktop display that enriches the performance of LCD displays with [...]

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