Monthly Archives: December 2004

I’ve put together a recommended book list for Java developers that covers some of the more useful books I’ve come across. It includes both technical and non-technical books, books that I think are well worth reading for building skills and … Continue reading →

OnJava.com has an article sumarizing their most popular articles in 2004. Not suprisingly, Hibernate and Eclipse were the most popular topics of the year (not suprising to me anyway as I’ve been actively using both for the past year both … Continue reading →

This caught my eye as their performance stats compared to other traditional RDBMS are staggering. Prevayler is an in-memory Object persistence mechanism as a direct replacement for a database. The in-memory representation of your objects is the database, so their … Continue reading →

JavaPolis conference slides are online on their wiki website. Slides for some interesting sessions are on their site, including: EJB3.0 HIbernate 3.0 _ gavin King J2EE without EJB – Rod Johnson Sping in Action – Rod Johnson …

OnJava.com have the first part of a series of articles on their site introducing Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP). This first article is very short and simplistic and introduces how easy it can be to use AOP to mark up a … Continue reading →

This is not a new concept as I have used this solution before at a previous company to mimic client/server type operation from the web page, but it’s interesting to see someone publishing an open source project to offer this … Continue reading →

My bio is published online on the JBoss site, along with the Chief Architect on my current project, for our upcoming presentation at JBoss World 2005 on Hibernate usage and lessons learnt.

Microsoft are admitting that their original delivery plans for WinFS, the new Windows file system replacement, were too eager, and the new system may not be released until late 2006, but then only in a test version. Longhornm, the next … Continue reading →

Sony’s PSP went on sale to the Japanese public on Sunday for a discounted launch price of $189, as Sony competes with Nintendo’s release of their new handheld, the Nintendo DS.

Oracle’s hostile takeover bid for Peoplesoft has come to an end as Peoplesoft’s board accepted $26.50/share, or roughly $10billion in total cost to Oracle.