In this month's article I
introduce TableLayout, a
robust but easy-to-use
LayoutManager for use in
any Java Swing
application. It's based
very loosely on the HTML
TABLE paradigm, where
components are placed in
table cells in row-maj...
Ever hear the phrase 'the
interface IS the system?'
It implies that what
people perceive a
software system to be is
largely determined by how
the system looks and how
they rate their
experiences interacting
with it. Is the system
...
As the complexity of
enterprise applications
grows with the increased
offerings in the Java
platform, the management
of the different building
blocks that constitute
the application also
becomes very complex. The
challenge in managi...
A lot depends on J2EE
applications - your
company's future, for
instance. Ensuring the
performance of complex
enterprise applications
built on the J2EE
architecture can be
difficult. To meet that
challenge, managing these
strategi...
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
bro...
AJAX and JMX are at
opposite ends of the
Systems Management stack.
However, the emerging
ubiquity of the AJAX
model for rich browser
clients has obscured the
benefits the model
provides in the
architectural space for
enhancing sup...
Whether writing code for
a small, single-platform
environment or
contributing to a
sophisticated
cross-platform,
multi-language
application, one truth
remains consistent: a
disorganized or poorly
implemented build
management str...
I took the advice of a
friend of mine and
steered clear of the
'normal' movie theaters
and went a little out of
the way to go to a DLP
movie theater. The
experience
There are 8,909 books
listed on Amazon.com with
the word 'Investing' in
the title; there are(!)
27,146 books with the
word investment in the
title. Without having lo
This book is an update of
an earlier version that
was written for SQL
Server 2000. It employs
the Murach approach of
dual pages that repeat
and enhance the concepts
Reviewers overuse the
phrase 'required
reading,' but no other
description fits the new
book 'Ajax Security'
(2007, Addison Wesley,
470p). This exhaustive
tome from B
In my many years of
programming, almost 20
years now, I have used
countless integrated
development environments
(IDEs). I have used
everything from a simple
text edi
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I took the advice of a
friend of mine and
steered clear of the
'normal' movie theaters
and went a little out of
the way to go to a DLP
movie theater. The
experience 
There are 8,909 books
listed on Amazon.com with
the word 'Investing' in
the title; there are(!)
27,146 books with the
word investment in the
title. Without having lo
This book is an update of
an earlier version that
was written for SQL
Server 2000. It employs
the Murach approach of
dual pages that repeat
and enhance the concepts 
Reviewers overuse the
phrase 'required
reading,' but no other
description fits the new
book 'Ajax Security'
(2007, Addison Wesley,
470p). This exhaustive
tome from B
In my many years of
programming, almost 20
years now, I have used
countless integrated
development environments
(IDEs). I have used
everything from a simple
text edi