Adam Jordens@littlesquare:~/

Interesting little article over on InfoQ talking about Alan Cooper’s book About Face.   Few key points: Design for Intermediates Users Use Tools that Help Beginners to Become Intermediates Less is More Design for the Probable,...

Glenn, if you’re reading this, we’re doing it again. … About 4 years ago, some friends and I decided to venture down to the neighborhood rib house for some an all-you-can-eat rib spectacle.  It’s taken us awhile (years really, some even...

There is a great article with David Kelley, the founder of Ideo, one of the most important design firms in the world, on the Fast Company site. The article touches a bit about Kelley’s life and his battle with cancer, but the article focuses on...

I’ve been knee deep in the Java world for a long time doing a combination of desktop, backend J2EE (spring/hibernate) and most recently Seam-based web application development. It’s the Christmas break and I’ve taken a bit of time to create an...

It's been a busy couple of months. For those that don't know, my role has shifted slightly from being focused on the technical aspects of an existing product to leading a few seasoned developers in their efforts on an entirely new suite of products. It's...

I was playing around with ANTLR today and was at bit overwhelmed at both the detail and lack of detail in various documentation and resources I was able to find. Plenty of grammar examples kicking around but some more recent tutorials that used ANTLR v3...

I was doing some reading and came across Unitils (1.1 was just released). Unitils is an open source library aimed at making unit testing easy and maintainable. Unitils builds further on existing libraries like DBUnit and EasyMock and integrates with...

Summer is here. Things have been pretty busy for the past month or so and as such I've decided to take a quick jaunt to Kelowna. Family and friends there so it's a good opportunity to relax and unwind. Although it looks like the west coast rain we got...

Being a long weekend, I had a couple hours yesterday to mess around with my Maven build in the hopes of integrating Groovy and ridding myself of a lot of Hibernate boilerplate (you know, all the annoying getters/setters). I'm currently working on a...

For the past couple of days I've been attending the caBIG Annual Meeting (it's the 5th such meeting and by all accounts the most well attended). About caBIG caBIG™ stands for the cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid™. caBIG™ is an information...