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By Yakov Fain I received an email stating that AOL finally abandoned the ugly Java applet that was used in the ICQ2Go, the Web version of the hugely popular (about 30M users) instant messaging system. The person who sent me this email also wrote, 'IMO this was the last popular Java applet. Now the k... Jun. 15, 2008 06:00 AM Reads: 4,355 Replies: 6 | By Jeremy Geelan  What drives a technology CEO or CTO to success in today's constantly changing technology ecosystem? We look at the question through the lens of the many interviews and articles we have published at SYS-CON.com which deal, sometimes only in passing, with exactly this issue. Executives q... May. 19, 2008 07:30 AM Reads: 8,720 Replies: 1 | By Yakov Fain Many young programmers don't read books anymore. They google. They argue, 'When I need to find a solution it's just a click away. Why bother purchasing books that are outdated by the time of printing? Real programmers learn by doing - trial and errors'. I do not agree with this. May. 2, 2008 10:15 AM Reads: 5,481 | By George Paolini Ten years ago this month, Java was 1000 days old. Here we bring an article by the then Vice President of Marketing for Sun's Software Products and Platforms, George Paolini. Ten years on, we thought it might make interesting reading, since even back then Sun's community-focused positio... Mar. 10, 2008 10:30 AM Reads: 14,898 | By Jeremy Geelan  I am always being told off by i-technologists for quoting Picasso as having said that computers are useless. But I still love his reasoning: 'Because they can only give you answers.' Picasso, like AJAXWorld Magazine, liked questions. So we thought we would share with you what some of t... Feb. 23, 2008 02:45 AM Reads: 102,371 Replies: 14 | By Yakov Fain JavaOne starts next week, and most of the Java developers will be watching closely what's new and exciting will be announced in the tried, true and aging Java. But my today's column is about books that will be sold at JavaOne. Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex & Java. We spent... May. 9, 2007 10:30 PM Reads: 13,810 | By Jeremy Geelan  Gartner says that the total number of bloggers will peak during the first half of this year at around 100 million, causing John R. Patrick to ask rhetorically whether spring 2007 truly is The Peak of Blogging? Apr. 4, 2007 03:00 PM Reads: 19,854 | By Robert Shinbrot  When building the right project team to complete a custom solution there are many forces at work. These include business drivers, technical drivers, and organizational and political motivations. Regardless of the business or organization there are three basic rules to follow in buildin... Jan. 20, 2007 11:00 AM Reads: 24,114 | By Yakov Fain When I was learning how to work with AJAX, I went through a number of 101-type articles. The biggest problem with these tutorials is that the authors are trying to explain several things at once, which is confusing. I'll try to offer you a very simple example of an Ajax application. Oct. 30, 2006 12:30 AM Reads: 25,788 | By Jeremy Geelan  For those who think that one weakness of the Newsweek piece is its title, MSNBC has come to the rescue by repurposing it under the - in my view, far sharper- title 'The New Wisdom of the Web.' This is a much more powerful rallying cry and I, for one, should have much preferred to see i... Jul. 29, 2006 01:30 PM Reads: 25,927 Replies: 3 | By Jeremy Geelan  In one of my (several) former professional lives, I used to publish books about the future, including, for example, the world's first full-length book about groupware. Unless we can first capture and thereafter harvest - asynchronously, as and when it is most needed and most relevant -... Jul. 24, 2006 11:15 AM Reads: 23,536 Replies: 1 | By Jon Kern  I bet you thought agile development was supposed to be easier than a traditional, prescriptive process! That I would wax evangelical that agile development is the answer to everything, and it simplifies your life. Yeah, just like UML and model-driven architecture and XML and SOA and We... Jul. 21, 2006 01:00 PM Reads: 18,624 Replies: 5 | By Jeremy Geelan  Ever since Google realized that 12% of the population would consult Google prior to seeing a doctor, which was followed by a British Medical Journal editorial suggesting that one of the natural next steps for Google would be some kind of medical database for personal use, rumors have b... Jun. 9, 2006 10:15 AM Reads: 22,210 Replies: 3 | By Jeremy Geelan  When Nicholas Carr posed the question 'Does IT Matter?' in his now-famous Harvard Business Review essay, he clearly knew that it would provoke discussion. He probably didn't know, on the other hand, that it would eventually cause the world's richest man - whose wealth is derived 100% f... Apr. 12, 2006 11:45 AM Reads: 25,261 Replies: 4 | By Marc Fleury  Simplicity is the key driving force behind the success of Java. When Dr. Gosling invented the Java language in 1995, the goal was to make life easier for software developers. Java's elegant language design, simple API, and vendor-independence have made it the platform of choice for man... Apr. 2, 2006 01:00 PM Reads: 30,028 Replies: 3 | By Jeremy Geelan  Almost anyone who writes about Internet technologies, or i-Technology in shorthand, runs into a problem area from time to time concerning the issue of what in the i-Technology world was invented by whom? Mar. 8, 2006 02:00 PM Reads: 17,891 Replies: 1 | By Jeremy Geelan  Every year for the past 10 years, SYS-CON Media's 'Readers' Choice Awards' have given the multiple constituencies we serve - developers, architects, IT managers, vendors - a chance to exercise their democratic rights, not just through the ballot box but also through the nomination proc... Feb. 11, 2006 02:45 PM Reads: 20,168 Replies: 3 | By Jeremy Geelan  This is traditionally the time of year for SYS-CON Media's roundup of i-Technology predictions from around the Web and the year's harvest of thoughts and viewpoints. According to our worldwide network of software development activists, evangelists, and executives, 2006 promises to be a... Jan. 18, 2006 08:15 AM Reads: 31,754 | By Jeremy Geelan  'Please don't read [anything] in to my not being at Sun's recent announcement with Oracle,' wrote Sun's president and COO Jonathan Schwartz the weekend after Sun (represented not by Jonathan but by Scott McNealy) and Oracle (represented by Larry Ellison) announced a broad-based reinvig... Jan. 17, 2006 02:45 AM Reads: 24,546 Replies: 1 | By Jeremy Geelan  Sometimes people ask me what it takes to run a successful business and I, who know only the media business, am always hesitant to reply. What could someone who has 'merely' spent the past 25 years exclusively in publishing and broadcasting via radio, TV, print and, most recently, onlin... Dec. 15, 2005 03:30 AM Reads: 21,980 Replies: 1 | By Jeremy Geelan 'Sun is making the Java Enterprise System, Sun N1 Management software and Sun developer tools available at no cost for both development and deployment,' said the company in an announcement yesterday. The announcement added that Sun is also 'reaffirming its commitment to open source thi... Dec. 1, 2005 09:15 PM Reads: 32,208 | By Jeremy Geelan  If successful trade expos are a good barometer of the market place (and they are), then things are going very well indeed with the homegrown category of apps named by Macromedia (soon to become Adobe), namely 'RIAs.' Which started me thinking: to what extent are the winners in the game... Nov. 10, 2005 07:30 PM Reads: 22,597 Replies: 2 | By Jeremy Geelan  Sun and Google are going to be teaming up to take on Microsoft in its holiest of holy markets, the desktop. Could such an alliance have been dreamed of just one year ago? The answer, of course, is 'Yes!' 'Game-changing' is what a disruptive company like Google does best, and Sun for it... Oct. 11, 2005 06:15 AM Reads: 56,626 Replies: 1 | By Jeremy Geelan  September is here and since the name comes from the Latin septem, for 'seven' - September having been until 153 BCE not the ninth but the seventh month of the Roman calendar - I have no hesitation in saying that it's an appropriate month to pluck just seven items from the wealth of inf... Sep. 19, 2005 01:00 PM Reads: 18,611 | By Jeremy Geelan  All the myriad commentators who monitor Internet technologies and the i-Technology companies on the NASDAQ doubtless have their own private cluster of indicators that they use to take a weather-check on the overall state of the industry. For some, it's as simple as looking at the NASDA... Aug. 10, 2005 09:00 AM Reads: 32,173 Replies: 2 | By Jeremy Geelan  Who do you suppose registered their corporate Internet domain name first: Microsoft, Oracle, or Sun? The answer is Sun; it did so in 1986. When in the early 1980s Dr. David Mills, John Postel, Zaw-Sing Su, and Dr. Paul Mockapetris were all involved in the development of the Domain Name... Jul. 18, 2005 01:30 PM Reads: 28,488 Replies: 1 | By Brian Russell  There comes a time, for many Web sites, when the transition from static HTML to dynamic HTML has to be made. Whether it's a static company Web site that needs to become a dynamic online store, or a simple collection of family pictures that's become too large to manage with HTML alone, ... Jul. 18, 2005 01:00 PM Reads: 29,657 Replies: 10 | By Jeremy Geelan  Technology birthdays come and go, but Internet technologies, by their very nature, aren't old enough to allow yet for centenaries, or even diamond anniversaries. So it is fascinating to see how people are reacting to the fact that popular technologies like Java, ColdFusion, and Flash h... Jun. 29, 2005 10:15 AM Reads: 32,333 Replies: 2 | By Yakov Fain Do you feel that being a Java guru sets you apart and makes you indispensable in your company? Or are you an entry-level person scared of being laid off given all these outsourcing trends? What are your career choices in the corporate world? Put on your headphones, turn on Pink Floyd's... May. 28, 2005 04:45 PM Reads: 32,383 Replies: 9 | By Jeremy Geelan When we opened up the JDJ domain to bloggers everywhere, we knew the take-up would be good. But one thing we couldn't be certain about in advance was whether the blogs themselves would be any good. We needn't have worried. As many of you will already have found out, the editors of JDJ ... May. 17, 2005 08:45 PM Reads: 30,222 | By Jeremy Geelan When in October of last year I asked the rhetorical question 'Is Mergermania Back?' (JDJ, Vol. 9, issue 10), there wasn't much doubt that it already was, but it took until last month to truly demonstrate just to what extent. It's not just back; in March we saw it's back with a vengeanc... Apr. 9, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 45,535 Replies: 14 | By Jeremy Geelan In a world bristling with TLAs (Three-Letter Acronyms), it's interesting that one acronym that has often caused an upset in the world of software development should be one containing just two letters: XP. (No, not *that* XP. What we're talking about here is XP as in eXtreme Programming... Mar. 9, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 28,331 Replies: 18 | By Jeremy Geelan As Sun open-sources Solaris, and another software development 'community' is tugged into being around it, critics are saying - Red Hat's general counsel Mark Webbink in particular - that the strategy will fail. Feb. 10, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 27,193 | By Jeremy Geelan No sooner had we begun our reader-driven quest for the top twenty software people in the world than - by popular acclaim, as they say - we're going to extend the field to choose from...from forty to over a hundred. Here we bring you a sneak peek at the sixty contenders that we'll be ad... Dec. 22, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 55,619 Replies: 23 | By Jeremy Geelan Our search for the Twenty Top Software People in the World is nearing completion. In the SYS-CON tradition of empowering readers, we are leaving the final 'cut' to you, so here are the top 40 nominations in alphabetical order. Our aim this time round is to whittle this 40 down to twent... Dec. 21, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 250,278 Replies: 151 | By Jeremy Geelan When I asked in a previous editorial who the Top Twenty Software People in the World were, I knew there would be a widely divergent response from readers. As promised, here's a preliminary update on the identity of some of your nominees. Nov. 8, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 34,354 Replies: 1 | By Jeremy Geelan Hurricanes Ivan, Charley, and Frances notwithstanding, sometimes being in the eye of the storm has its advantages. At SYS-CON Media, where we by definition dwell at the epicenter of what might be called the i-technology weather cycle, our central position allows us to ask industry infl... Oct. 6, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 49,172 Replies: 1 | By Jeremy Geelan For over a decade, Tim Bray, one of the prime movers of XML, managed the Oxford English Dictionary project at the University of Waterloo. That was from 1988 to 1999. During the end of his time there he launched one of the first public Web search engines (in 1995), coinvented XML 1.0, a... Sep. 7, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 37,880 Replies: 1 | By Jeremy Geelan Ever since Nicholas G. Carr's now historic Harvard Business Review article, 'IT Doesn't Matter,' published in the May 2003 edition of HBR, it was only a matter of time before the wider world caught up with Carr's thesis. The article formed only a small part of Carr's broader exploratio... Aug. 5, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 21,186 | By Ajit Sagar The six blind men who attempted to describe the elephant eventually described it only from their perspectives - the parts and not the whole. The same malady can be found lurking in one of the problems that faces many organizations that have adopted J2EE as their platform of choice: the... Aug. 5, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 21,326 |
TODAY'S TOP 10 LINKS YOU MUST CLICK ON! YOUR FEEDBACK  | By Derek Yang Shen en3rgizer wrote: Hi there! Since my last post about working version of petstore, i've received a lot of letters with requests for it, so i felt like i'm working for technical support of petstore application :)) so i've shared archive with it on rapidshare.com. You can download archive with working files from here: h... | | By Yakov Fain Yakov Fain wrote: This was an old post. I've written more on the outsourcing subject in my free e-book Enterprise Software without the BS available at
http://yakovfain.javadevelopersjournal.com/enterprise_software_without_t... | | By Krishnan Viswanath udaykiran wrote: Really Excellent Information. But i have some doubts. initially i have some aversion towards annotations but after reading this article i develop some interest on it. later my R & D i want to create an annotation which is like @Singleton when ever i applied this annotation for a class then i want to... | | By Duncan Mills; Frank Nimphius Younis Alomoush wrote: Hi Duncan and Frank,
Thanks for your great efforts.
It is a job well done. In fact,I have installed the module and plugged it to my own application for evaluation purposes.However, I have found a scenario where a user can access into a unauthorized page, I don't know if I can call it as a bug or n... | | By Joe Winchester James Nelson wrote: Thanks for the posting, which we are hoping will solve our software issue with two Turkish clients. This may be four years out of date, but please correct the code example, which has many nonsensical errors (two identical operations on anotherUserVisibleString, use of String tag without later reuse,... |
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