Support via Corporate Blogging

Kryptonite and Why Companies need Blogs I agree. If you’re in a (commodity? I’m not a biker) market like Kryptonite, I don’t think you can afford to limit your corporate presence. One mistake combined with a slowness to react and take responsiblity could seriously hurt a company. If I was a biker, why would I ...

Clearsilver HTML Templates

Neotonic ClearSilver Playing with Bloglines led me to ClearSilver. Clearsilver is a fast, powerful, and language-neutral HTML template system. In both static content sites and dynamic HTML applications, it provides a separation between presentation code and application logic which makes working with your project easier. I haven’t played with Clearsilver yet but there does appear ...

Bloglines for syncronization

On a whim tonight I decided to investigate Bloglines. Background: I read blogs in two locations, work and home. In a perfect world, I’d like the ability to synchronize my read lists between each site. It’s a heterogeneo us environment with linux on one side and windows on the other. By using bloglines i’ve been ...

Now Reading Effective Enterprise Java

My copy of Ted’s Effective Enterprise Java arrived today and I’ve spent a few minutes browsing some of the tips. I’m looking forward to both using it as a day-to-day reference and eventually reading it cover to cover. From what I’ve read it appears well written with enough examples sprinkled in to keep things interesting. ...

Why your code sucks

I read an interesting article by Dave Astels the other day titled “Why Your Code Sucks” In it, Dave discusses numerous (6) reasons why, to put it bluntly, your code may suck. One interesting point that is brought up, and confirmed by Steve McConnell (whose Code Complete 2ed sits beside me half read), is that ...