I think I’ve gotten the art of deploying a rails app on a DreamHost down, and a few friends have asked for a quick tutorial, so here it is. Once you learn how to do it, you can get a new app up and running in 5 minutes or less.
This assumes you know how to […]

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I use Java almost 100% of the time in my day job. I think it is perfectly suited for what we do and love working with it. I also do work on the side and am really struggling to use Java for that stuff.
I actually think that with some really cool developments made over the […]

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Agile has been a popular software development methodology for some time now. I think Agile methodologies typically work quite well for most projects and see this as a generally good thing. That said, how Agile is implemented makes more of a difference than the simple decision to use it.
Unfortunately, I’ve seen Agile implemented poorly more […]

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I do JEE development for my day job, but lately have been doing a lot of Ruby on Rails development on the side for some financial websites I’ve been building. I’ve used PHP in the past for these, and see Rails as a better alternative.
One minor issue with Ruby on Rails is that it still […]

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As I was adding accounts and rates for my certificate of deposit site, I began to notice that 3 and 6 month CDs were offering higher rates than 5 year CDs - which seems to be the opposite of what you’d expect. I decided to whip up a quick graph last night, and sure enough, […]

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It seems like once a month or so, someone comes out with an article about the ‘real’ problem with JSF, how JSF is dead in the water, or how bad it is. I think uninformed articles like these are the biggest problem with JSF right now - go to a JEE forum and read JSF […]

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I’ve spent the last 10 years doing web development and little else. This year, I’ve vowed to get more experience outside of web development. After hearing some of the cool stuff happening in the mobile space, I decided I’d like to do some mobile programming. There are tons of cool applications for this that I […]

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One of my long-term goals is to make enough money off the internet to enable to me to quit my job while still enjoying the same level of income. Many people have similar goals, I think. It isn’t so much that we hate out jobs (I personally love mine), but rather that we’d like the […]

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