Ah, what a fun weekend.. I’m working on a few projects using Seam right now, and I wanted a way to deploy them out onto an actual server so that other people could look at them. Normally, you’d have a dedicated server for running Java apps, but those are kinda pricey, especially for while you […]

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For all the good that the internet accomplishes, I’m still astounded by the sheer amount of negative stuff on it too. I am constantly helping friends and family get rid of viruses, spyware, and adware. Even worse than that, many folks are having passwords stolen, computers and servers hacked, and other security-related problems. Indeed, safely […]

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This is the first of a two part series showing how easy it is to expose and consume web services using the Spring Framework and XFire. In this part, we’ll be going through exposing the web services. This assumes you are using the following:
- Maven 2 (for dependencies)
- Spring 2.0 (although, it should work fine […]

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A while back, Amazon announced a new service called “Amazon Mechanical Turk“. The basic idea is that anyone can submit a task that would be impossible for a computer, but relatively simple for a human. You could signup to complete these tasks, and would be given a small reward for each task you successfully completed.
And […]

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This past week, I’ve been reading an interesting book - Thomas L. Friedman’s “The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century.” This may sound like an odd title for a book - we know with certainty that the world is indeed round, and we are barely into the twenty-first century. The book, […]

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Those of us trying to make a few bucks off AdSense (and other affiliate programs) know that one of the hardest parts is getting a lot of content up. The more content you have, the more valuable your site (usually) is, the more search engine hits you get, and the more links from other sites […]

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Yeah, I realize this may be a little old for some people, but plenty of people haven’t seen it yet (I hadn’t until last night).
These guys were drunk or something and came up with a whitespace-based language, which is exactly what I need for an upcoming project. Well, not really. But it is still pretty […]

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Over the last year or so, progress in developing Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) has been at a dizzying pace. It seems as though there are 2 new AJAX/JavaScript frameworks coming out every day. Products like Macromedia Flex and Laszlo have been introduced and improved quickly. These advances are both exciting and somewhat confusing. It is […]

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