Unlike a lot of database servers, MySQL is strangely conservative (by default) on how much memory it will allocate. If you’re not careful,… [read]

Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard [read]

In the past couple of days on the Scrum Development mailing list an interesting thread has developed around what to do with a poor performing team member.… [read]

How we all agreed that SOA is dead. Well, most of us anway.… [read]

Burton Group's Anne Thomas Manes wrote an obituary for SOA, saying SOA met its demise on January 1, 2009, when it was wiped out by the catastrophic impact of the economic recession.… [read]

Everytime I install an OS on a new machine there is a list of software that I install that I find I can’t live without.  I guess I could actually technically survive,… [read]

Lecture by Professor Mehran Sahami for the Stanford Computer Science Department (CS106A). Professor Sahami lectures on classes, constructors, instance variables, setters, strings, extending,… [read]

Part of a development team has been laid off, the team is down to four developers with a part time Scrum Master and no dedicated Product Owner. Is Scrum still applicable? What options are there?… [read]

Maybe Blu-Ray technology is utterly irrelevant, and maybe Java's role there is irrelevant too. [read]

This was sent to me by email. I don’t know the source. It might be this blog as pointed by Google. Young Chuck moved to Texas and bought a donkey from a farmer for $100.00.… [read]

Whenever unit-tests are written, chances are good that the code is not isolated. Many tests run against a given class/interface/function.… [read]

Domingos Neto just postedBusting java.lang.String.intern() Myths. In general I like the post,because I think this is an important topic,… [read]

Janice J. Heiss interviews Java Champion, Adam Bien, who discusses some common fallacies about Java EE and takes the mystery out of distributed computing. [read]

A new article has just been published on JavaWorld: Distributed Transactions in Spring, with and without XA. SpringSource Principal Consultant, Dave Syer,… [read]

I've been busy over the last weeks, evaluating and learning the Java FX platform. I'm between optimistic and enthusiastic about JFX, but wandering forums and blogs over the net,… [read]

The new version of the GWT based tool has been released. This article contains some details regarding the release.… [read]

An ambitious and key part of Java EE 6, the Web Beans specification spans JSF/EJB integration, context management, dependency injection and AOP.… [read]