Presentation: Building Highly Scalable Applications w/ Terracotta

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

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Senior Architect David Reines presents the simple yet powerful clustering capabilities of Terracotta. David includes a brief overview of the product, an in-depth discussion of Terracotta Distributed Shared Objects, and a live load test demonstrating the importance of a well designed clustered application.

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How To Become More Effective, or Why Some Are 10X As Productive As Others

Monday, April 26, 2010

I am sure that you have heard the often quoted “great developers are 10 times more productive than average developers”.  As a consultant, I have seen this in practice many times, over the course of many projects at many clients.  I am sure that you know people on your team, or people that you have worked [...]

Suppressing Ant “can’t find JAR” Warnings

Monday, April 19, 2010

Since upgrading some projects to the new Spring Framework 3.0, and perhaps just coincidentally noticed while updating other JAR files, I’ve noticed a number of warnings from Ant during my activities that indicate that JAR files are not being found. Most peculiarly, the warnings are for JAR files that are not used nor are they anywhere in the classpath.

Presentation: Intro to Android UI Development

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

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This Tech Talk is an introduction to user interface development on the Android platform. Android is gaining a lot of ground as a mobile operating system. This talk will cover the basics of building a user interface using the Android concepts of Activities, Layouts and Views. The concepts will be demonstrated using working [...]