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...

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...