Presentations about scalable web architecture

I came across the meta-presentation(http://www.slideshare.net/group/webapps-scalability/slideshows) on scalable web architectures. The lessons learned are interesting. 

Posted at 06:58AM Jul 27, 2007 by Christopher Webster in General  | 

Create Screencast from your browser

There is an interesting site offering screencast creation and hosting from your browser. Sounds like an interesting alternative.

Posted at 12:03PM Jun 02, 2007 by Christopher Webster in General  |  Comments[1]

JavaScript documentation generator

I came across the JSDoc project recently which extends Javadoc like concepts into Javascript. The documentation and the procedure for using this are straightforward if you are used to javadoc. 

Posted at 12:11PM Apr 24, 2007 by Christopher Webster in General  |  Comments[1]

Blueprints article about using JPA in a web module

I came across this article about using JPA in a web module. Using JPA in a web only module is more difficult than using JPA in EJB because of the differences in the threading models. Using a request scoped managed bean makes things a bit easier as the injection model is similar to EJB. 

Posted at 08:50AM Apr 08, 2007 by Christopher Webster in General  | 

Interesting Web 2.0 Video

One of my colleagues, sent me a link to a fun video on Web 2.0 (< 5 min). 

Posted at 06:58PM Feb 07, 2007 by Christopher Webster in General  | 

Bug Driven Development

Todd Fast has an extensive blog entry about his vision of Bug Driven Development. This is worth a read.

Posted at 08:32AM Jan 12, 2007 by Christopher Webster in General  | 

Five Things about Me

I have been tagged by three people. Jonathan has also been tagged and is participating.

• I went to school at the University of Hawaii. The campus is in Hilo, where the average rainfall is about 130 inches by the coast and 300 inches up the mountain. There is also an active volcano not far from campus. Awesome place to live and go to school!
• I have been a volunteer coach for Special Olympics athletes. I have coached basketball, soccer, swimming and softball.
• My first job was at McDonalds.
• I grew up in Southern California. One of my favorite spots is Huntington Beach.
• I really enjoy rafting. About two years ago, my dad and I capsized a canoe and almost went over a waterfall. I still love it

The next five victims:

• PCM
• Vince
• Binod
• Gopalan
• Frank

Posted at 08:21AM Jan 12, 2007 by Christopher Webster in General  | 

Schema Naming and Design Guidelines

The Universal Business Language Initiative was design to provide some common definitions in XML Schema to support an interoperable XML vocabulary. This is a daunting feat. This effort has produced some documents for Naming and Design guidelines of XML Schema. See the following: http://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/prd-UBL-NDR-2.0.pdf. Beware, this document is 70+ pages but the guidelines are interesting to consider for schema authors. This was a massive effort so the advice here is interesting to people thinking about developing schemas which stand the test of time.

Posted at 08:43PM Dec 21, 2006 by Christopher Webster in General  | 

Java SE 6 monitoring tools

I came across this link to the monitoring facilities which are currently available in J2SE 6. There are a lot of interesting new tools, take a look at http://java.sun.com/javase/6/webnotes/trouble/.

Posted at 05:09PM Dec 15, 2006 by Christopher Webster in General  | 

Java Studio Enterprise 8.1 Released

Java Studio Enterprise 8.1 was released today, see http://developers.sun.com/prodtech/javatools/jsenterprise/index.jsp. Java Studio Enterprise is branded and matched to the release of Java Enterprise System, see http://www.sun.com/software/javaenterprisesystem/ to support development using the latest Java Enterprise System.

Posted at 10:38AM Dec 12, 2006 by Christopher Webster in General  | 

Ask the Experts on NetBeans Enterprise Pack

There is an ask the experts session starting on October 30, where you can ask the NetBeans Enterprise Pack team questions. Please see, http://java.sun.com/developer/community/askxprt/

Posted at 02:04PM Oct 25, 2006 by Christopher Webster in General  | 

Article on build script anti-patterns

I came across the following article on build script practices today http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-ap10106/index.html. There is not much earth shattering information, but it is fun to see if you have ever created one of the anti-patterns described in this article. This article also had a reference to the Elements of Style for Ant. Both interesting reads.

Posted at 08:43AM Oct 12, 2006 by Christopher Webster in General  | 

Free Course on Solaris 10

There is a free online Solaris 10 course offered by Sun. This course covers zones, Dtrace, and other features of Solaris 10. Check it out at http://www.sun.com/training/catalog/courses/WS-245.xml.

Posted at 07:49AM Aug 27, 2006 by Christopher Webster in General  | 

PG&E Rebate on a server?

There is a very cool article about a program where Sun teamed up with PG&E to provide a rebate for efficient energy use of the Sun CoolThread technology servers. Check out this article for more details: http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060815/sftu103.html?.v=57

Posted at 03:21PM Aug 15, 2006 by Christopher Webster in General  | 

Free AJAX training

Sang Shin is offering a free 10 week AJAX training course. This is definately something worth checking out. The URL is http://www.javapassion.com/ajaxcodecamp/

Posted at 06:04PM Jul 29, 2006 by Christopher Webster in General  |