Found this funny. Looks like Lenovo has some issues in their pricing application today. I was planning on purchasing an X300 at some point, but with their new price tag of $11,000, I just don’t think I can afford it. Haha
I got an email from Dan Sline about the upcoming Houston Techfest. more»
This is Part Two of a series of articles on Java.next. In Part Two, I will look at how Java.next languages interoperate with Java. more»
I was talking to my friend Brian Goetz recently, and he reminded me of more»
I've been scanning the early draft of OSGi R4.2, specifically RFC 124, "A Compo more»
In a recent discussion interview questions came up, here's my favorite one.To set some context this question is designed to gauge the abst more»
In almost every application I've done, the database tables have some kind of audit trail fields. Sometimes this is a separate "audit log"... more»
It’s time again for my monthly music club mix. This month is a bit of indulgent power pop and just a smattering of stuff I’ve... more»
Recently, I sat through some vendor presentations and while I won’t name names, I just have to say: learn to give better talks. If I... more»
The developers of Seam have come up with a list of major issues with JSF. I'm assuming many more»
The first scheduled class for the NFJS One venture is now official! And we don't even have the website live yet. :) This class will be a go... more»
A fine fellow by the name of Srini came to my talk on JPA at the NoFl more»
A short while back, I did a brief series on the value of "d more»
A couple of weeks ago I participated in a BriefingsDirect podcast about using more»
As Joel points out, we've made a draft of the S more»
As we’ve seen over the last several weeks, it’s remarkably easy for code to earn the badge of 100% more»
The Spring framework has become ubiquitous in the Java world, and there are a large number of to more»
At the Columbus NFJS show held on July 25-27th during one of the BOF sessions Dave Bock, Scott Davis and I discussed unit tests vs functional... more»
Well i am assuming Apress has the most random site in the world at times.But today only they have our recent book, Beginning Groovy & Grai more»
We are really excited to have a 3 day Groovy/Grails training event coming up in Chicago later this month. The training dates are August... more»
I went to the 37 Signals event last night sponsored by CPB. The speake more»
I'll be giving a talk on the state of Grails at the London Groovy+Grails user group meeting on the 31st of July. more»
I am pleased to announce that Developing Rich Web Applications with Spring, a three-day bootcamp lead by SpringSource engineers on web... more»
When creating a Foreign Key constraint on the database as shown below ALTER TABLE BOOK ADD (CONSTRAINT FK_BOOK_ more»
Judging from the list of features that will be included in NetBeans 6.5, more»
I just spent this weekend speaking at the Ag ile IT Exchange conference i more»
I’ve published a summary of the OSGi survey results on the APS blog more»
This surprised the heck out of me. We recently finished a new TV room down in the basement. We have a 50″ plasma TV, mounted on the... more»
I was reading a blog entry at more»
Marti nig & Associates Methods & Tools group recentl more»
In this installment we are going to build the Dashboard page of the Tempo application. T more»
In my recent post, I had mentio more»
I'm looking forward to speaking at The Rich Web Experience conference in San Jose next month. The event runs from September 7th through 9th.... more»
We've already looked at one of the two big problems posed by anti DNS pinning on Java applets; because there's rebinding on the applet and... more»
Every time I see a live show at the Denver Botanic more»
InfoQ.com has published my AOP myths and realities talk recorded at a No Fluff Just Stuff conference. InfoQ.com founded by Floyd Marine more»
The 2006 NFJS tour kicked off t more»
<p> Just spent many minutes on a wild goose chase and the underlying cause was that I had a <div> and a... more»
This article explains how to implement the sorting feature of the dataTable component of the JavaServer Faces Widget Library, which is... more»
I just posted the JDOM 1.1 release for download. This release includes about 20 improvements and bug fixes. more»
Found this funny. Looks like Lenovo has some issues in their pricing application today. I was planning on purchasing an X300 at some point, but with their new price tag of $11,000, I just don’t think I can afford it. Haha
Brian Pontarelli is the founder and president of Inversoft, a Colorado based software company. In addition to Inversoft, Brian works on many open source projects including Struts, Savant and Java.net commons. In the past, he was the president of the Chicago Java User Group and an enterprise architect for Orbitz.
Brian has been programming for many years and works primarily with Java and Ruby. He has published various articles in both print and online magazines about Java, J2EE security, Java Server Faces and NIO.