I’m in the middle of what could best be described as multi-media coding. I’m working or a JSR-168 portlet for WebSphere Portal. the portlet renders graphs and tables of statistics for a cluster of Sametime 7.5 Meeting Room servers. I’m using Workplace Dashboard Framework to create the portlet and Web Charts 3D to compose [...]

I fell out of the software developer track for a number of years. I was a strong (although not the best) C language developer and had some C++ talent but I shifted gears when Java took off at my company. Since that time, I have done mostly scripting based hacks and small tools as “brain [...]

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 [...]

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*, [...]