Brett McLaughlin

Brett McLaughlin has been working in computers since the Logo days (remember the little triangle?). He currently specializes in building application infrastructure using Java and Java-related technologies. He has spent the last several years implementing these infrastructures at Nextel Communications and Allegiance Telecom Inc. Brett is one of the co-founders of the Java Apache project Turbine, which builds a reusable component architecture for Web application development using Java servlets. He is also a contributor of the EJBoss project, an open source EJB application server, and Cocoon, an open source XML Web-publishing engine.

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Varargs Excerpt from Java 1.5 Tiger: A Developer's Notebook
In this excerpt from Chapter 5 of Java 1.5 Tiger: A Developer's Notebook, Brett and David cover how to create and iterate over variable-length argument lists (better known as varargs), which will have you writing better, cleaner, more flexible code in no time. Sep. 30, 2004

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Tiger's Out -- Will It Matter?: Lots of blogs on Tiger, as you might expect. But are people really moving to use Tiger, or is this just a lot of fanfare?
Posted by bmclaugh on October 01, 2004 at 21:46 PST | Permalink | Discuss (7)

Open Source - A Divider?: A few days ago, I picked on Java. I don't know if I'm just feeling ornery, but today I want to pick a bit on open source. Buckle up boys and girls...
Posted by bmclaugh on September 26, 2004 at 11:46 PST | Permalink | Discuss (9)

Ho Hum Java: I still remember back in the days when it was cool to be a Java guy. Then, last night, a friend of mine mentioned that he was "skipping the Java fad", and I got to thinking...
Posted by bmclaugh on September 23, 2004 at 07:05 PST | Permalink | Discuss (26)

Is anyone actually using XML Encryption and XML Signature?: I just finished tech. reviewing a couple of articles on XML Signatures and Encryption, and it struck me that these were REALLY esoteric sounding things. So is anyone actually using this stuff?
Posted by bmclaugh on October 17, 2003 at 13:19 PST | Permalink | Discuss (5)

Switched... then switched back... and then switched again: About a year ago, I jumped on the Mac OS X bandwagon, threw my resources into a TiBook and later into a nifty desktop, and thought I was quite trendy. About 4 months ago, I got annoyed at all the things that I was used to acting just slightly off, and went back to my trusty PC laptop. I was pretty happy, and on familiar ground, until last week's editors meeting at O'Reilly. Since then, I've run screaming back to my TiBook, and am (for now) thrilled...
Posted by bmclaugh on October 15, 2003 at 10:00 PST | Permalink | Discuss (2)

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