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• Review - Release It!
  Many of the texts on software engineering discuss following some methodology to produce an ideal design. Working developers quickly learn that the ideal is rarely reality and things happen once we release software out into the wild. Michael Nygard'...
• Implementation Language Matters
  Stuart Halloway recently wrote that Design Patterns are Code Smells and emphasized that implementation language matters. While Stuart is specifically talking about design patterns, this applies to design in general. "Speaking" a programming ...
• Review - Rails for Java Developers
  In "Rails for Java Developers", Stuart Halloway and Justin Gehtland provide an introduction to Ruby and the Rails web application framework aimed at the Java developer more familiar with frameworks such as Struts and Hibernate. There's a lo...
• No Fluff Just Stuff 2007: Recap of the Northern Virginia Software Symposium
  This past weekend the No Fluff Just Stuff 2007 tour was in Reston for the Northern Virginia Software Symposium. This was my first time at a NFJS event, but I had heard nothing but good things from those who had attended in the past and I was really lo...
• Kathy Sierra Threatened
  This is just plain sad. I have had the pleasure of dealing with Kathy in my capacity as a JavaRanch moderator as well as pre-publication reviewer for several of the Head First books, and she has always been the nicest person. She certainly doesn't de...

• Trusted Pills - The Great Choice & Quality
  antideppressants
• Re: Review - Everyday Scripting with Ruby: For Teams, Testers, and You
  Thanks for the review, will check out the book. From your description, it does seem as a worthy candidate to read. :)
• Re: Google Maps API: Adding Where to Your Applications
  Thanks for the kind words. I'm glad you enjoyed the article. Cheers -s
• Re: JSF... My post-JavaOne impressions.
  Re: the developer works article by Hightower: He only makes the case that JSF without WYSIWYG is better than the older frameworks, not that WYSIWYG development with JSF isn't better than without it. Re: tools: The tool I would advocate would be Creato...
• Re: JSF... My post-JavaOne impressions.
  Wow, you guys touting tools, to which tools are you referring? Nitrox, MyEclipse and Exadel are the only ones I know of that support JSF. (Oh, and Sun's JavaStudio Creator, like we're all going to download that and switch off between it and Eclipse). T...