Mike is looking for a (real) job! (part 1)

(tags: phd comics fun)

Mike is looking for a real job! (part 2)

(tags: phd comics fun)

Repeat after me: “MySQL is crap”

(tags: article postgresql database SQL mysql)

A few pointers on Shoes, a lightweight Ruby GUI development framework.

(tags: ruby gui programming)

It’s so easy to get injured when working mostly on a computer… Go and check out these tips!

(tags: howto ergonomics)

The upcoming release of Netbeans is going to have a really good WSDL editor, making WSDL look actually much simpler than it actually is.

(tags: java ide webservices soap)

You either love or hate Maven…

(tags: java build maven)

A good article on why using a Mac is good for your productivity (i.e., it just works and you can use your brain for more important stuff than dealing with the software / operating system that you use).

(tags: opinion macosx)

Funny proposals to “enhance” the Java language

(tags: funny java)

A tour of JavaFX.

(tags: java javafx tutorial article programming)

Another nice visual enhancement on Swing by Romain.

(tags: gui java programming swing)

A new (another?) Java ORM framework that is inspired by some concepts of Rails ActiveRecord. Looks promising.

(tags: orm java database opensource)

An excellent overview of JBoss Seam, and how it allows an easy integration of EJB, JSF and other frameworks / technologies.

(tags: seam jboss jsf javaee java article framework)

Opinion article on why email is a bad communication medium at times.

(tags: opinion fun)

Debate on the hungarian notation for interfaces.

(tags: java design opinion)

A project so that the dynamic languages on the JVM can share some common code.

(tags: article java language opensource programming)

Nice tips for creating logos.

(tags: design graphics)

The Remouleur strikes back

(tags: groovy java mac macosx programming)

Ruby gem to take snapshots of websites from Gecko.

(tags: ruby howto mozilla)

One day they’ll be in bed altogether

(tags: groovy jruby)

Capistrano 2.0 is out. Capistrano is a nice tool that nicely automates the whole deployment process of Rails applications. It is a bit hard in the beginning, but definitly worth it once you get it!

(tags: deployment capistrano rails rubyonrails ruby programming)

The Capistrano homepage.

(tags: capistrano ruby rails deployment rubyonrails tools programming)