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History of Web Frameworks

February 23, 2010

Matt Raible created this great visualization of the history of Web frameworks. Here’s the image: Originally uploaded by mraible.

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I love Wordle

February 11, 2009

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide and I love playing with it. Every couple of weeks, I’ll stumble onto Wordle again and fall in love all over again . Here is a tag cloud of all of the tags from my del.icio.us bookmarks. Go create your tag/word clouds [...]

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iTunes & Ehcache – You figure it out

April 5, 2008

Thanks to Greg Luck, I discovered something new in iTunes called My iTunes that lets you export your purchases out as RSS or as a widget to display on your website. Check out a sample of my purchases below – With DRM free music from Amazon, I’m not buying anything from iTunes that’s available on [...]

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Books I am currently reading

December 23, 2007

As I’ve said before, I am a voracious book collector and (usually) reader as well. I love books and could spend hours reading. With a demanding job, a wife and a young daughter, I’ve built up quite a backlog and hope to get to most of these books in the next few weeks. Here are [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for Apr 03, 2007

April 3, 2007

From Java EE security to Acegi – The right way to protect your Web applications – This article is an in-depth introduction and comparison of Java EE security and Acegi. They both offer a variety of security services to make application security programming easier. The declarative and annotation-based programming methodologies let devel Microsoft Watch – [...]

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Website Performance and Optimization

March 24, 2007

A couple of months ago, I noticed that I was getting pretty close to using up all of my monthly bandwidth allocation for my server and that was a surprise. I run several blogs that get quite a few hits but I didn't think I was anywhere near going over my 250 GB allotment. So [...]

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Will (Or Should) Adobe open-source Flex?

March 1, 2007

I have been building AJAX applications for a while now and absolutely love AJAX and the improvements it can offer in user-interface design, making applications easy and fun to use. But AJAX does have limitations and I, like many others have come to the realization that while AJAX is great for most things, it is [...]

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PHP Acceleration – Pick Your Poison

February 27, 2007

As I deployed more applications and web sites on my server, I started running into resource issues. Since most of the applications I write are in Java, I run Tomcat on my Linux server. But I also run Apache as a front-end host for Tomcat as well as several PHP applications like WordPress, Vanilla and [...]

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Red Hat to Oracle (and market) – Oh No You Didn’t!

December 23, 2006

Red Hat shares jumped about 25% after they reported a quarterly profit and outlook that topped Wall Street forecasts. After the close, the stock is still going up in after-hours trading. Kudos to Red Hat whose stock had been hammered after Oracle announced that they were going to redistribute Red Hat’s Linux under the name [...]

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Hosting Woes Over

November 18, 2006

The day started off fairly normally – Check GMail for anything that needs immediate attention, then move to blog stats and then hit GrabPERF to see how my sites are behaving. And much to my very pleasant surprise, my blog made it on the front page of GrabPERF and it was on the good (Top [...]

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