Tag: tech news

TheServerSide.com have a good article explaining how they implemented Lucene for their search engine on their site, include code examples.

I’ve been meaning to look into using Lucene on my own site for some time now, so maybe I’ll have a good read through this article and get something going on my own site 🙂

I’ve summarized the EJB3.0 spec (JSR220) into a shorter condensed version, covering most of the major areas that are going to be changing. You can read the summary here.

Sun have a good article on Getting Started with Java Management Extensions (JMX) on their site, giving a good overview of the technology, how it is architected, how it is used. There is also a brief section giving an overview of the JMX implementation in J2SE 1.5

I’ve posted a summary of the excellent book “Debugging the Development Process” by Steve Maguire, to my Book Summaries section.

This is an excellent book, recommended reading for any team/project lead, and also well worthwhile for any developer who wants to understand how they can work more effectively in a project environment (“Work smarter, not harder”).

I particularly like the main gist of this book, that so much time and effort is wasted on projects on “misguided effort”. A project/team can be made to be far more effective if the main goal is identified and held as the number 1 priority. I have seen this time and time again on projects – people get sidetracked off onto issues, either administrative or other non-essential development tasks, that do not contribute to the main goal in any way. An effective team/project lead needs to keep the teams focus, and shield the team from non-essential tasks.