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How many bad things can I read in a day?: Some times the news is good, some times the new is bad. Today it's bad.
Posted by malcolmdavis on April 15, 2008 at 11:48 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

Visual Studio Shell: Microsoft’s version of NetBeans & Eclipse: Microsoft is finally releasing their version of a NetBeans & Eclipse environment.
Posted by malcolmdavis on June 12, 2007 at 12:15 PST | Permalink | Discuss (2)  

Ditching the Blackberry?: Have people become too reliant on technology to solve all their problems?
Posted by malcolmdavis on June 12, 2007 at 11:51 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

Learning programming: Alice: I skipped the last day of JavaOne to make it back for the first ever Alice Film Festival.
Posted by malcolmdavis on May 23, 2007 at 07:19 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

Critical Flaws Found in Java Development Kit: Users running Java Development Kit are encouraged to upgrade to protect systems from two remotely exploitable flaws.
Posted by malcolmdavis on May 22, 2007 at 12:15 PST | Permalink | Discuss (1)  

JavaOne Blog 7: Is code review old school?: There are numerous sessions on automatic bug detection that stretches to all types of development practices.
Posted by malcolmdavis on May 10, 2007 at 11:23 PST | Permalink | Discuss (3)  

JavaOne Blog 6: Being Productive in Swing: TS-3834: A must see for Swing developers.
Posted by malcolmdavis on May 10, 2007 at 11:07 PST | Permalink | Discuss (1)  

JavaOne Blog 5: Good, Bad and Ugly of UI design?: Fascinating, entertaining, and humorous, but the session missed the point.
Posted by malcolmdavis on May 09, 2007 at 13:09 PST | Permalink | Discuss (4)  

JavaOne Blog 4: JSR 296 Swing Application Framework, nice but lacking.: The JSR claims to be a conical form a Swing application..
Posted by malcolmdavis on May 09, 2007 at 13:01 PST | Permalink | Discuss (9)  

JavaOne Blog 3: Not just free tools, but free services.: Companies continue the grow partnerships with developers in new ways.
Posted by malcolmdavis on May 09, 2007 at 07:09 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

JavaOne Blog 2: Where are the Sun machines?:
Posted by malcolmdavis on May 09, 2007 at 07:07 PST | Permalink | Discuss (3)  

JavaOne Blog 1: JavaOne, Again: This is my 4th JavaOne. As technology and talks evolve, so do the attendees.
Posted by malcolmdavis on May 07, 2007 at 18:45 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

Visual Studio, duh.: Is Microsoft still playing catch up with tools, technology, and techniques?
Posted by malcolmdavis on May 03, 2007 at 07:28 PST | Permalink | Discuss (1)  

Is Java 6 ready?: Sun is pushing Java 6, however Java 5 is still on the www.java.com site.
Posted by malcolmdavis on March 07, 2007 at 06:36 PST | Permalink | Discuss (5)  

Yahoo! Hack days: More integration and mashup opportunities as Y! opens up hack days.
Posted by malcolmdavis on September 11, 2006 at 14:01 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

Redmond's One Big Vista Mistake?: On the eve of WWDC, more of Microsofts problems become apparent. It is more than just another delay in an operating system.
Posted by malcolmdavis on August 06, 2006 at 09:55 PST | Permalink | Discuss (5)  

The Java DB, or better yet, the JRE DB, is just a RFP item.: Many people are missing the point about the embedded Java database. The database is not about being a technically good thing, but answering a checking box on the RFP list.
Posted by malcolmdavis on July 20, 2006 at 11:49 PST | Permalink | Discuss (10)  

Scale Up vs. Scale Out: How is application scalability and reliability achieved?
Posted by malcolmdavis on July 19, 2006 at 14:40 PST | Permalink | Discuss (3)  

Emails 'pose threat to IQ'.: I don not read my emails, or use an alarm clock.
Posted by malcolmdavis on July 02, 2006 at 10:33 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

Should corporation rethink blogging?:
Posted by malcolmdavis on March 28, 2006 at 22:06 PST | Permalink | Discuss (1)  

The economics of quality: The only thing more expensive than writing software is writing bad software. - Alan Cooper. This blog discusses the truth in Alans statement.
Posted by malcolmdavis on March 10, 2006 at 20:54 PST | Permalink | Discuss (2)  

Why are you uninstalling NetBeans IDE?: I was redirected to a uninstall survey after removing NetBeans 5.0. This blog discusses some of the reasons why I uninstalled this latest version of NetBeans.
Posted by malcolmdavis on February 13, 2006 at 19:57 PST | Permalink | Discuss (34)  

HOME - Time to fix the product website: HTML is a simple technology that seems to have escaped a few developers. Invalid HTML, bad names, no descriptions, and missing favorite icons are some the problems facing the basic website.
Posted by malcolmdavis on January 09, 2006 at 10:45 PST | Permalink | Discuss (3)  

http://www.despair.com: A site dedicated to help employee performance through de-motivation.
Posted by malcolmdavis on October 06, 2005 at 19:13 PST | Permalink | Discuss (3)  

Programmers are not the only ones throwing around titles: A number of individuals in Canada have been charged and found guilty for using the title of systems engineer.
Posted by malcolmdavis on September 16, 2005 at 18:14 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

PDFCreator for Windows: PDFCreator is a virtual printer driver for creating PDF documents. The product is free and one of my favorite tools.
Posted by malcolmdavis on September 13, 2005 at 20:12 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

Eclipse 3.2M1: A better Eclipse 3.1. If you are using Eclipse 3.1, you may want to review Eclipse 3.2 M1.
Posted by malcolmdavis on September 11, 2005 at 18:46 PST | Permalink | Discuss (6)  

The next generation of languages: One of the first comments I heard when Java arrived was "why are we still dealing with 3GLs?" Third generation languages (3GL) have been around a long time. 10 years later, there are still rumblings on why Java, and what is the next generation of languages.
Posted by malcolmdavis on August 29, 2005 at 13:06 PST | Permalink | Discuss (5)  

JavaOne postmortem: The pdf's for JavaOne technical sessions are now available for download. However, there is more to JavaOne than technical sessions, including the BOF, Pavilion, and people.
Posted by malcolmdavis on July 21, 2005 at 09:45 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

How did Java end up on top?: Dvorak - I'm not going to say it's transforming but I'm going to say it's popular."
Posted by malcolmdavis on July 12, 2005 at 22:33 PST | Permalink | Discuss (6)  

Riding the trend curve: Can we determine the future of a technology?
Posted by malcolmdavis on April 13, 2005 at 19:08 PST | Permalink | Discuss (4)  

Firefox downloads exceeded 25 million: There is more to FireFox then a cool look and nifty features.
Posted by malcolmdavis on March 03, 2005 at 19:31 PST | Permalink | Discuss (2)  

The top 20 IT mistakes to avoid: InfoWorlds article describes the most common IT problems as spoken from the CTO themselves.
Posted by malcolmdavis on December 12, 2004 at 21:39 PST | Permalink | Discuss (5)  

It depends: It's difficult picking the correct tool for the job
Posted by malcolmdavis on September 26, 2004 at 22:31 PST | Permalink | Discuss (3)  

Conflicting mindsets of C# vs. Java: Another perspective of C# vs. Java
Posted by malcolmdavis on September 12, 2004 at 09:37 PST | Permalink | Discuss (6)  

Planning: Managers need to sell their trucks.: Some managers rely on instant messaging and BlackBerry in lieu of planning.
Posted by malcolmdavis on September 02, 2004 at 10:01 PST | Permalink | Discuss (4)  

Information architecture: When doing UI development, information architecture is a technique to keep in mind.
Posted by malcolmdavis on August 30, 2004 at 21:25 PST | Permalink | Discuss (1)  

Class variable names: Informal naming convention for module variables.
Posted by malcolmdavis on August 26, 2004 at 09:14 PST | Permalink | Discuss (20)  

How do you classify yourself?: People use the terms engineer or architect to describe their role or level of competence.
Posted by malcolmdavis on August 22, 2004 at 18:23 PST | Permalink | Discuss (7)  

NetBeans, look & feel comments: NetBeans 4.0 is much improved over 3.6, but still does not meet native ‘look & feel’
Posted by malcolmdavis on August 18, 2004 at 22:11 PST | Permalink | Discuss (13)  

netbeans 3.6: Sun's tools’ group needs a reality check.
Posted by malcolmdavis on August 13, 2004 at 12:28 PST | Permalink | Discuss (16)  

The Humble Programmer: Over the last 30 years, we’ve seen many of the ideas reiterated. Maybe someday as a community, we will figure it out.
Posted by malcolmdavis on July 26, 2004 at 14:10 PST | Permalink | Discuss (3)  

JDBC 4.0 is a tigress: JDBC 4.0 contains new features that will make it easier for developer
Posted by malcolmdavis on July 01, 2004 at 15:41 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

Groovy isn’t hip: Sometimes reality doesn’t meet expectations, and that’s how I feel about Groovy.
Posted by malcolmdavis on June 29, 2004 at 23:01 PST | Permalink | Discuss (11)  

Java Technology Concept Map: A cool little tool that maps the entire Java technology in a single diagram.
Posted by malcolmdavis on June 29, 2004 at 22:30 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

Javapedia: Javapedia is about everything Java.
Posted by malcolmdavis on June 28, 2004 at 22:23 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

I'm ready!: Last years JavaOne was a love fest, advertised outside the convention by the hippies (tie-dye and hair), and demonstrated on the web by Java.net.
Posted by malcolmdavis on June 20, 2004 at 21:34 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

LAMP: LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySql and PHP (or Python/Perl).
Posted by malcolmdavis on June 14, 2004 at 21:10 PST | Permalink | Discuss (4)  

toString() - any format recommendation?: The toString() format seems to lack uniformity between developers.
Posted by malcolmdavis on June 10, 2004 at 17:30 PST | Permalink | Discuss (10)  

Simian: Help eliminate some of the monkey business that developers do so well.
Posted by malcolmdavis on June 06, 2004 at 21:36 PST | Permalink | Discuss (6)  

"Why the little fish eat the big fish". - Motivation: Motivation comes in many forms and plays an important part of the human experience.
Posted by malcolmdavis on May 05, 2004 at 06:36 PST | Permalink | Discuss (1)  

Feature Oriented Programming and Design: FOP focuses on benefits, rather than the function points.
Posted by malcolmdavis on May 04, 2004 at 09:32 PST | Permalink | Discuss (5)  

Clear the CLASSPATH: Class information in the environmental CLASSPATH can cause application load problems that are difficult to track down.
Posted by malcolmdavis on May 03, 2004 at 10:26 PST | Permalink | Discuss (4)  

RI the application: The J2EE reference implementation (RI) doesn’t get any respect.
Posted by malcolmdavis on April 28, 2004 at 07:40 PST | Permalink | Discuss (4)  

Where's the marketing occurring? Subliminal messages in technical articles of course.: Microsoft’s ability to market itself in technical papers is nothing less than amazing.
Posted by malcolmdavis on April 22, 2004 at 11:15 PST | Permalink | Discuss (5)  

Specification insight: When learning a new piece of Java technology, specifications can be a great resource.
Posted by malcolmdavis on March 09, 2004 at 21:03 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

Adapt the Java style for your own: Many C/C++ developers let an ego get in the way of being a better programmer.
Posted by malcolmdavis on February 29, 2004 at 21:21 PST | Permalink | Discuss (21)  

Software IG for Corporate IT: To help avoid the fraud, waste, and abuse that can occur inside large organizations, the military uses the concept of an Inspector General or IG. After working in 4 different large cooperate companies in the last 6 years, I think it might be time for an IG in the IT shops.
Posted by malcolmdavis on July 06, 2003 at 14:35 PST | Permalink | Discuss (1)