Archive for Java
No, I did not fall off the face of the earth, however…
it sure felt like it. I just realized that I haven’t posted anything since Jan 17. Yep, that’s 3 months ago. Where did the time go? No excuse. Time to get back in the saddle. Interestingly enough, what I have to say today is very close to what I said on Jan 17. I’m getting [...]
New Android SDK, Terracotta 3.2 and here I go to bootcamp again
This week, I signed up for the upcoming Big Nerd Ranch Android bootcamp near Atlanta. I attended the iPhone bootcamp last year and it was great. I’m expecting great things out of the class. It is taught by Mark Murphy, the founder of CommonsWare and the author of Busy Coder’s Guide to Android Development. I’ve [...]
No love from Google Checkout
Ok….ok…I missed posting last week. I have a good reason. Honest. Well, at least in my mind, it is. I’ve been working with one of my clients to get another website live, which happened successfully last weekend. I spent a good part of the last couple of weeks creating the go live checklist and going [...]
Locks on the head and the tail
It’s been one of those kinds of weeks. I’ve been working on implementing a LinkedBlockingQueue for a project and things were not working as expected. Unfortunately, I forget the simplest of rules for LBQs: there is a lock on the head and a lock on the tail. I was processing the queue using a Timer [...]
The first foray into NoSQL and my tools list
This week, I dipped my toes into the NoSQL world. Currently, I’m evaluating MongoDB for a project. It’s amazing that people are thinking this is new and revolutionary. I was doing this stuff in the late 80s with PICK, Universe, UniData, Revelation and a number of other “post-relational” databases. Back then, it was all green [...]
How could I forget the title?
Fortunately for me, it’s been a very quiet week. We’ve had minimal issues from the client launch last weekend. We’ve found a couple of things to cleanup, but nothing major. It made my trip to Dallas for the weekend a lot more sane not always having to constantly look over my shoulder, or in this [...]
Thank You and Good Night
This is going to be a really short one. We had a big web site go live for a client this weekend. I’ve been up for 36 hours, but I did sneak in a 2 hour nap and the caffeine is beginning to run out… Here are the highlights leading up to and through the [...]
Do as I say, not as I do
“Proper planning will keep things from turning into emergencies. Lack of planning makes everything an emergency.” – @scottjallen I broke one of my cardinal rules over Labor Day weekend and I meant to blog about it last week, but I was too ashamed to admit what I did. I jumped the gun and upgraded the [...]
Do you really wanna be a hero?
This past Monday, I attended SocialFresh in Charlotte. I typically don’t spend a lot of time in the social media space, but a number of my clients are wanting to “get started” in the social media space. For me and my company, it makes sense to learn the basics and then pull in the smart [...]
Everything I ever needed to know, I learned from Tron and Ehcache
As I write, I’m cruising at 27,000 feet from Miami to Charlotte after spending part of the week on site with a client. Very productive, but the week flew by way too fast. This week had some fairly major announcements in the Java arena. Terracotta acquired Ehcache. That’s probably the best news I’ve had all [...]