New Year’s resolutions for Web developers
Peter Seebach returns with another crotchety installment of his “Cranky User” column at developerWorks. :) A couple of my favorite points: A shocking number of people still believe that Web pages...
View ArticleUML to power NASA satellite
CNET just announced that NASA will use the Model driven architecture capabilities in the IBM Rational line of software development products to manage the software to power the James Webb Space...
View ArticleKathy Sierra and the Blogger’s Code of Conduct
The blogosphere was aflutter last week after a slew of nasty comments and death threats were leveled at one of my favorite authors, Kathy Sierra of Head First fame, by one or more anonymous posters on...
View ArticleCode review in version 7 of Rational tools
A quick note to help out other folks who are looking for the Code Review feature they used in version 6 of Rational Application Developer or Rational Software Architect in version 7 of these tools....
View ArticleA new ibm.com
IBM unveiled a significant upgrade to its Web site earlier this month. There were many folks who drove this successful launch and we’re all pretty proud of the result. Beyond the aesthetic touch ups...
View ArticleThoughts on the Spring Framework
One of my goals for the year was to learn more about the Spring Framework, a layered set of modules that intend to make enterprise Java development easier. In September, I took a class on Spring. Last...
View ArticleInstant XML feeds via the JSTL SQL tags
A dusty old Java tag library can help conjure up siloed Web site data for new uses. Some background I’ve developed a number of server-side Java Web applications over the years, first with scriplets...
View ArticleWebSphere sMash at New York PHP April 28th
Next Tuesday night we’re excited to have WebSphere guru Roland Barcia introduce the latest PHP and Web 2.0 capabilities in IBM’s WebSphere sMash environment (built on Project Zero) to the New York PHP...
View ArticleUpcoming WebSphere and PHP book reviews
With several vacation days to cash in through the end of 2009, I hope to catch up on some reading and learn more about the latest developments in the two areas where I do most of my work as a Web...
View ArticleCross-origin resource sharing on IBM Bluemix
Update: A newer version of this post has been published to the IBM Bluemix blog. The IBM Bluemix Platform-as-a-Service (based on Cloud Foundry) naturally supports applications that are composed of many...
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