Background The company I work for made the decision to OEM a product from a partner, rather than invest valuable development time to build something that has essentially been commoditized. Development resources are at a premium and we consciously...

The team and I have recently kicked off a rather ambitious project.  In an attempt to help accelerate the early development activities, we’ve made a decision to build a series of one-off implementations using the DeveloperForce.com platform...

Good talk from Emmanuel Bernard and Max Ross on the subject over at InfoQ. Both Hibernate Core and Shards are covered, as well as Hibernate Search. Particularly interesting for me was his overview of the different mechanisms by which you can support...

I hate to admit it but I’ve been running Vista on a desktop machine at home for the better part of the past 8 months. It has not been a terrible experience (High-end dual-core with 8 gigs of ram does help) but I’ve been looking for more. I’ve...

I’m happy to say that after a good 3 or 4 years of using Exchange for all our corporate email/calendaring, there is light at the end of the tunnel. I got an invitation today to join our pilot project on Google Apps for Enterprise.  Awesome,...

I spent a few hours tonight trying to diagnose a problem we were running into tonight with some web application code. That was on top of the better part of a day that was spent by another developer digging into the code. Development ain’t easy, and...

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...

Until recently, the bulk of my writing was done on a Mac using Ecto.  I was looking for a suitable publishing tool for Windows and was directed towards Windows Live Writer. Short answer, it’s nice.  I’ve installed the 2009: Release...