I guess I should’ve probably said something before, but I’m actually going to be attending the JavaOne this year, thanks to Oracle. They were kind enough to give me a Blogger Conference Access pass which allows me to attend not only all the conferences at JavaOne, but also the ones at Oracle Develop and OpenWorld. […]
A couple of weeks ago, a friend of mine (Craig Tataryn) asked me if I could participate along with him and other people in a weekly podcast. Jeff Genender, Justin Lee and Jason Whaley also agreed to join in this effort. Thus, The Basement Coders Podcast came to be, and I think we’ve had some […]
Ever since I started using Java back in 1997, I’ve wanted to go to a JavaOne event but was unable to. The closest I’ve been to one was two years ago, when I just happened to be on the same city (San Francisco) on a business trip. But this year, even though technically I could […]
5 Days of Wicket – Designing the backend is an article written by yours truly as part of a series of articles geared towards the better understanding of how to create a web application using Apache Wicket. Enjoy. (You can read a short introduction to the series of the articles and links to the rest […]
The other day I was trying to look at some site from my iphone but alas, the site was crawling with Flash embedded objects (from menu navigation to actual site content). At first I became frustrated that the iPhone didn’t support Adobe Flash embedded objects, but then I started thinking further, and I realized that […]
And since we’re talking about switching stuff, another thing that I recently changed is the IDE I’m using on a day by day basis. I have been a long time Eclipse user, and I still think it is a great IDE, specially for the price (you can’t beat free, can you?). It is stable enough, […]
It’s really been a long time since I’ve updated this site. I could make up excuses like too much work, too little time, or simply that I didn’t think there was anything worth to say. Some of it may be true, but the important thing here is that what I wanted to do with this […]
A couple of months ago (June, to be precise) was my 10th year anniversary of doing Java programming. In that time, I’ve worked with several technologies, seen a couple of interesting projects and worked for different companies in different sectors, both as a consultant and as an employee. I thought I should share a couple […]
Google has just released the beta version of the Google Web Toolkit (GWT). The GWT is a Java-based toolkit that lets you create AJAX-enabled pages using Java. The main idea of the toolkit is that once you create your app following the GWT API, you will then compile your Java classes into Javascript and HTML, […]
I just saw the live webcast for JavaOne’s General Session on the future of Java, and I must say I’m a little saddened by it. I never thought I’d ever hear the words "Visual Basic for Java" mentioned anywhere, even less so in such an important event as it is JavaOne. In my very personal […]
