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IBM Supports Developers in a BIG Way

I was reading Stephen O’Grady’s blog and started link hopping. My jumping off point was  the announcement of IBM supporting MySQL. Then I trolled around where I found IBM’s growing support for PHP through Zend Core. I had read previously about WebSphere support for PHP.
I’ve confessed previously that I skipped the Java development tract in [...]

not Building a plug-in for Lotus Sametime 7.5.1

I needed to develop a plug-in for the Lotus Sametime 7.5.1 client. Once again, Google to the rescue. This time, it took a few clicks but I found a great “getting started guide” in four parts.
Part 1 - setting up your machinePart 2 - building your first plug-inPart 3 - testing and debuggingPart 4 - [...]

Death to the 3-tier architecture

I was blog surfing this morning and came across a post at Bill de hÓra talking about web applications. I’ve suffered through too many software architecture meetings where 3-tier design was *absolute* only to be followed up a year later by software architecture meetings where our entire focus was on making our 3-tier solution *work*, [...]