by Vinny Carpenter on 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 was a wonderful man who was loved by everyone that met him. He was the best father my brother or I could have ever asked for…. He was kind, loving and a gentle soul that loved life and always set a wonderful example for my brother and I. My brother and I loved him so much and we are going to miss him so much. Life just won’t seem the same without him and words can’t describe the sadness we all feel. He was a wonderful husband, friend and partner to my mother and they loved each other tremendously.
Dr. Suresh M. Carpenter (1940 - 2007)
Update: (Nov 3, 2007)
Thank you to everyone who has called, written, and emailed with their condolences, thoughts and prayers. My family and I really appreciate the kind words, prayers, moments of remembrance and the wonderful stories you’ve shared about our father. We are all doing well, given the circumstances but all of the support we’ve received from friends and family has been instrumental in helping us deal with our loss.
A lot of you have asked about sending flowers and while we really appreciate the thought, I think my dad would have preferred a donation to further Parkinson's research. My mom suffers from Parkinson and my dad wanted to see a cure for Parkinson in his and her lifetime. I don't want anyone to feel compelled to do anything or give anything but if you want to send flowers, we would rather you donate to one of the many wonderful Parkinson's research and support organization. I am rather partial to The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF) and would encourage you to donate to help cure Parkinson's.
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by Vinny Carpenter on October 16, 2007
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 Adopting Struts 2.0 - Java World - Struts 2.0 carries much of the power of its predecessor but is simpler for developers to use. In this article, S. Sangeetha and S. V. Subrahmanya outline the changes in Struts 2.0 and offer migration pointers for developers familiar with Struts Improve Your Photos 60 Seconds at a Time - If you are tired of reading long explanations and confused by tricky photo techniques, here you can have it short and sweet. Arranged by topics, each subject takes less than 60 seconds to read. InfoQ: IntelliJ IDEA 7.0 Adds Spring/Hibernate Support, Eclipse Interoperability, and Maven Integration - Jetbrains has released IntelliJ IDEA 7.0. This version rounds out support for many popular Java technologies while adding support for languages such as Groovy and Ruby. Among its highlights: Spring and Hibernate Support, Ruby/Rails Support, Groovy/Grails IntelliJ IDEA Blog » Blog Archive » IntelliJ IDEA: The Magnificent Seven - JetBrains is proud and happy to tell you that IntelliJ IDEA 7.0 is now available! This release is focused on further upgrading performance, usability, and enhancing the user experience with the efficient support for new features, technologies, and tools. Buyout could serve both BEA, Oracle | CNET News.com - Oracle's…offer to purchase BEA Systems provides a logical conclusion to the questions surrounding the future of BEA Enterprise Technology Tips: Opensource Cache/Caching Solutions in Java - There are lots of caching solution in Java, free and non free. This is a list of opensource caching solutions available in Java/J2EE/JEE domain for software development or developing enterprise applications. glTail.rb - realtime logfile visualization - View real-time data and statistics from any logfile on any server with SSH, in an intuitive and entertaining way. so-you-wanna-see-an-image at CodeWord: Apokalyptik - We?ve been asked how we manage serving files from Amazons very cool S3 service at WordPress.com? This is how. (covering a requested image already stored on S3, not the upload -> s3 process) google-collections - Google Code - The Google Collections Library 0.5 (ALPHA) is a suite of new collections and collection-related goodness for Java 5.0, brought to you by Google. This library is a natural extension of the Java Collections Framework you already know and love. InfoQ: Architecture Evaluation in Practice - Dragos Manolescu shares insights gained from growing ThoughtWorks' architecture evaluation practice and evaluating several architectures for Global 1000 companies. These insights aim at preparing people interested in commissioning, managing, performing, p SourceForge.net: AjaXplorer - ajaXplorer is an easy-to-install files explorer for remotely managing files on a web server, or using as a simple filesharing system. Its rich layout and actions make it accessible to any end-user. Open source CMSes prove well worth the price | InfoWorld | Test Center | October 08, 2007 | By Mike Heck - Alfresco 2.1 extends Web content management while adding record and image management, federated search, and better ease of use through the Alfresco AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) Web client. DOMTab - Navigation tabs with CSS and DOMscripting - DOMtab is a JavaScript that turns a list of links connected to content sections into a tab interface. The script removes any "back to top" links in the section and automatically hides all but the first one when the page is loaded. You can use as many tabb
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by Vinny Carpenter on 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 developed at Amazon to address the need for an incrementally scalable, highly-available key-value storage system. The technology is designed to give its users the ability to trade-off cost, consistency, durability and perform Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Thoughts on Amazon's Internal Storage System (Dynamo) - Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon, has a blog post entitled Amazon's Dynamo which contains the HTML version of an upcoming paper entitled Dynamo: Amazon?s Highly Available Key-value Store which describes a highly available, distributed storage system used in InfoQ: ExtJS Creator Jack Slocum Discusses Upcoming 2.0 Release - The ExtJS team recently released the alpha release of version 2.0. This comes roughly a month after a preview release of the framework. New features: Grouping and Summary of Tables, Scrolling Tabs, Anchor Layout, Tree Widget with Columns, Web Desktop Ajaxian » JSValidate: Form Validation Library - JSValidate is a simple library based on Prototype and Script.aculo.us to allow you to do form validation. You simply use special CSS classes to annotate your form and let the library do the rest. Ajaxian » A simple guide to using Firebug - Phil Rees has written up a nice introduction to Firebug, showing us how you can use Firebug to - Inspect custom stylesheets included by Google Mashup Editor Pieter Humphrey's Blog: Adobe and BEA announce bundle of Workshop Studio 10.1 + Adobe Flex Builder 2 - BEA Workshop Studio 10.1 with Adobe Flex 2 brings together world-class development for Rich Internet Applications, BEA WebLogic Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) enablement, as well as browser and server portable Java? applications. After Struts what? - O'Reilly ONJava Blog - Before we close and somewhat pass a judgement that use Seam as the framework of choice, there are two more options to consider - the web framework from Spring and the Google Web Toolkit. Icahn further raises BEA stake to 13.22 percent | News | Mergers/Acquisitions | Reuters - Billionaire investor Carl Icahn further boosted his stake in BEA Systems Inc (BEAS.O: Quote, Profile, Research) to 13.22 percent, according to a regulatory filing. If wishes were iPhones, then beggars would call [dive into mark] - Buy it for what it is, or don?t buy it at all. Your choices don?t get any more granular than that. Apple has been unwaveringly clear that the iPhone is theirs.
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by Vinny Carpenter on 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 other. He was admitted to Children’s hospital of Wisconsin immediately after his birth and started on peritoneal dialysis.
Gavin is a fighter and a tough little guy who is beating the odds every day as he gets ready for his kidney transplant. Gavin's family and friends have come together and helped raise $95,778.67 (as of 2/15/07) to help offset the cost of Gavin's transplant and transplant-related expenses. Visit www.savebabygavin.com for more details on Gavin’s journey.
Gavin’s mom Jill and my wife Kristin put together this video to celebrate his first birthday. Check it out and visit www.savebabygavin.com and donate to help Gavin celebrate many more birthdays.
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by Vinny Carpenter on February 13, 2007
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
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by Vinny Carpenter on January 31, 2007
Joe and I are pleased to announce that a new configuration mechanism is available when using DWR in conjunction with Spring
I'm going to share a high-level architecture for building real-world Flex applications, with the help of a complete working example application called ReviewTube
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by Vinny Carpenter on 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 do at work and your co-workers, having a view like this really helps make it an awesome place to work.
The view from my desk overlooks Lake Michigan, Discovery World and the SummerFest grounds which host the World’s Largest Music Festival.
By the way, we are hiring developers. If you're interested in learning more, drop me an email using the contact form on this blog and I can fill you in and provide additional details.
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by Vinny Carpenter on 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 the video game marketplace with the Play Station and Microsoft is closing in with the XBox. Nintendo is languishing in third place but its stock is up 65% this year and because Nintendo is not trying to rule the entire industry, it’s been able to focus on its core competence and actually make money. Microsoft's game division is losing money while Sony is barely making any money. Here is an edited quote from the article:
Companies that adopt what they call "competitor-oriented objectives" actually end up hurting their own profitability. In other words, the more a company focuses on beating its competitors, rather than on the bottom line, the worse it is likely to do. And a study of the performance of twenty major American companies over four decades found that the ones putting more emphasis on market share than on profit ended up with lower returns on investment; of the six companies that defined their goal exclusively as market share, four eventually went out of business.
There are lot of companies out there that should play to their strengths while recognizing their limitations instead of trying to be everything for everybody.
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by Vinny Carpenter on December 26, 2006
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
DevX.com has a nice series of articles entitled the 'AJAX Framework Roundup' where they walk through all the frameworks and discuss pros and cons. Nice Prototype tutorial included as well
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by Vinny Carpenter on December 16, 2006
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
"Migrating to Spring" takes a web application the author wrote for a java.net article and migrates all the hand-rolled JDBC code over to Spring equivalents
Author discuss the basics of GWT and show how Java developers can use the GWT to create a simple AJAX application to retrieve search results from a remote API to display in a browser
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