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	Title and summary	Date/time
1	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 ...	May 20, 2007
2	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...	May 19, 2007
3	Review - Wicked Cool Java "Wicked Cool Java", by Brian D. Eubanks, bills itself as "an idea sourcebook" for Java developers who are "looking for interesting and useful APIs or for project ideas." This book serves as an introduction to a hodge-pod...	Mar 8, 2006
4	Review - Data Crunching: Solve Everyday Problems Using Java, Python, and More There exists a set of tasks common to every software developer independent of the type of application developed and the language used. Concisely presenting these tasks to the new developer has always been a problem without burying the hapless soul ...	Jul 21, 2005
5	JSF... My post-JavaOne impressions. Let me state upfront that I don't really know all that much about JSF. I'm mainly a Struts guy and have been using it since 2000. That doesn't mean that I'm against trying anything other than Struts; quite the contrary actually. So I recently got ba...	Jul 6, 2005
6	Review - Hibernate in Action Data persistence is quite naturally at the heart of most enterprise applications. There are a myriad of choices the Java developer faces in choosing a persistence mechanism. JDBC and EJBs have long been the standard options, along with relative newc...	May 4, 2005
7	Review - Pragmagtic Unit Testing in Java with JUnit Refusing to rest on their laurels from their 1999 success The Pragmatic Programmer, Andrew Hunt and David Thomas are back with a vengeance. They've taken a step back from their previous title to write The Pragmatic Starter Kit, billed as a prequel t...	Jul 28, 2004
8	Interview with Harshad Oak, author of Pro Jakarta Commons I recently had the opportunity to conduct an interview with Harshad Oak, author of the APress title Pro Jakarta Commons. It's a pretty good book and definitely worth checking out. Eventually I'll get around to writing a review for it. Harshad cam...	Jun 17, 2004
9	JavaRanch Journal Article published on BeanUtils, Digester, and Type Conversion My previous blog entry, BeanUtils, Digester, and Type Conversion, has just been published as an article in the latest JavaRanch Journal.	Jun 17, 2004
10	BeanUtils, Digester, and Type Conversion Brett Bell asked on JavaRanch recently if Digester can convert a String held in an XML attribute to a java.util.Date or int. This brings up a little understood (and poorly documented, IMHO) topic relating to the Commons Digester and BeanUtils packages...	Jun 9, 2004
11	Using Jakarta Commons to Create Dynamic Data Transfer Objects In the first two parts of the Touring the Commons series we learned how to create and use DynaBeans and how to use Digester to map XML to objects. This article assumes that you have already read the previous two parts of this series and builds on that ...	Apr 6, 2004
12	Articles on Jakarta Commons BeanUtils and Digester packages I've written a three part series for the JavaRanch Journal highlighting a couple of packages from the Jakarta Commons project. Part 1 discusses the BeanUtils package, and part 2 discusses the Digester package. The third and final installment in the s...	Apr 5, 2004
13	Dynamically Instantiating Struts DynaActionForms I've been asked on several occasions how one should dynamically instantiate Struts DynaActionForms. I've been asked often enough at least that I figured I'd blog it. The Struts User Guide certainly isn't much help here, as it only offers the following...	Mar 23, 2004