What makes a good Test Engineer
This article describes what should do become a good software test engineer.
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REST vs WS-* :: A comparison of SOA stacks
The debate continues. Here's a stack comparison diagram I found on the SOA Wiki so that neutral parties can get a perspective.
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Database Best Practices
Every production application I have been involved with has made use of a database. As a programmer, you don’t have to be a DBA, but just as with... more »
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Why I Am No Longer Supporting IE6
In the recent relaunch of my site, I gave it some thought and made some decisions about supporting IE6. I'm not going to support it. Not on this site... more »
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Explaining REST to Damien Katz
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His post made the rounds on the expected social news sites like programming.reddit and Hacker News, where I was amused to note that my blog is now... more »
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W3C On The Relationship Between Usability And Accessibility
The W3C posted an update to the Relationship between Mobile Web Best Practices (MWBP) and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), something which... more »
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OpenGL 3.1 promise follows gamer revolt
Graphics and games engineers angered by the delayed OpenGL spec and threatening to adopt Microsoft's DirectX have been asked to hold out a little... more »
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Dynamically Resizing Text with CSS and Javascript
As the number of screen size and screen resolution possibilities increase, gracefully resizing text becomes more and more important to the usability... more »
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Problem Solving 101
Problem solving is one of the most important skills a manager or developer can posses. Here is are a few points for fixing problems.
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Common Security Flaws In PHP Applications
No matter how long you’ve been programming or scripting, once in a while you’ll catch yourself making a serious (security) flaw that you thought you’d... more »
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OpenGL 3.0 Released, Developers Furious
After over a year of delays, the OpenGL ARB (part of the Khronos industry group) today released the long-awaited spec for OpenGL 3.0 as part of the... more »
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OpenGL 3.0 released - The good and the Bad
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The Khronos Group has released a new mile stone version of the OpenGL API: version 3.0, codename Long Peaks. While this is really good news, Khronos... more »
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The Java Memory Model in 500 Words
What is the Java Memory Model? The JMM explains why the original double-checked locking optimization is broken and how it can be fixed.
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Standards-based corporate web development
My last project for my previous employers has gone live so here’s a long discussion about the totally redesigned website for the Solicitors Regulation... more »
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Wicket in Action: Undoubtedly The Wicket Bible
A preview of the soon to be released "Wicket in Action", by Martijn Dashorst and Eelco Hillenius..
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PHP: Performance Improvement Tips
This post covers some performance improvement tips by showing merits or demerits of various coding practices in PHP. While developing small websites... more »
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Separation of Content and Presentation - One Step Ahead
Jeff Atwood once wondered what's the point of alternative markup languages; this is the answer.
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Practical Introductions to the Spring RCP
Get up and running with Spring RCP, covers most of the main areas of interest.
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Swing Application Framework (JSR-296): new concepts, new features
Nice overview of the new JSR 296 Swing Application Framework
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Core Software Design Principles
While a software system may have its own set of unique principles to guide its design, we believe that all systems can benefit from the use of this... more »
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Software development dogmata - good practices gone bad
Many practices in the software development world are widely accepted at some moment in time as the “true way”. The trouble starts when the “true way”... more »
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Why Ogg Matters
Our goal is to enable unencumbered, royalty-free, open-source friendly audio and video playback on the Web. Shipping Vorbis and Theora will achieve... more »
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Sun hires OSGi expert
Looks like Sun has hired Richard S. Hall, known for his work on the Apache Felix OSGi container.
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Java 7 Prediction Update
Updated predictions for what will (and won't) be included in Java SE 7
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When to use Transfer Objects with EJB 3
Transfer Object is a pattern very common in EJB 2 and distributed computing. EJB 3 claims that Transfer Object is not necessary any more, but this is... more »
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