Dazed & Confused

A great article about project management here. It focuses on Crystal Clear (which seems to be an agile methodology?), but really is applicable to any smaller software project.

Eric over at Manageability has a good list of Java books to read here. I’ve just finished J2EE without EJB by Rod Johnson and I might even consider having it higher on the list. It does an excellent job of explaining The Spring framework but also explains when it is sound to use EJBs, JTA [...]

Good and extensive FireFox review here. Picked up a good extension called SessionSaver too.

Computerworld has a nice article here about hiring people not tools. To me it’s important that I can trust the person and know that they are competent and willing to learn. If they have had experience with Java or C++ is secondary.

IBM DeveloperWorks has a good continuation on their series on JDK 5.0 concurrency here. Seems yo couldn’t do lock-free and wait-free algorithms in Java before the new atomic API.

Been using the Zaval Java Resource Editor the last couple of days. Properties files can become quite a nightmare to maintain when doing full i18N for your application, and refactoring them an even bigger nightmare. But it just had to be done. The editor has it’s shotcomings, but it’s the best alternative I was [...]

A lot of articles about AOP tell us how great it is, but few of them make a good case out of why and when to use AOP. I have not tried much aspects and remain a bit sceptical. Reckless usage could lead to a pretty confusing system that is hard to maintain. In this [...]

It isn’t easy to find but Punit has some links here.

Excellent, finally a central resource for Java portals and portles. Check it out here. Looks like I’ll have to take a closer look at Liferay. Whish it could run without EJB though.

And article on Fowlers BliKi pointed me to Sergey Dmitirevs (IntelliJ founder) article about Language Oriented Programming. It’s an extensive indepth article and there is even plugins available for it right now. It shares some of it’s notions with MDA, and is quite interesting.