Archive for November 2009

LUNCH and LEARN

November 14, 2009 4:07 PM

We .Net guys @ CITYTECH are always occupied with our work that we hardly get time to meet all together at a time. So when we are talking to each other we came up with an idea to do the lunch together. And what’s the benefit of lunch without some take away, so we decided one of us will talk about a topic very informally and we can discuss things around it and of course discuss on what’s going on with each other. WOW what an idea, LUNCH and LEARN.

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posted by Rohit Srinath

More on the Sun/Oracle Saga

November 13, 2009 5:39 PM

The EU officially opposed Oracle’s acquisition of Sun earlier this week, and it looks like a fight is going to break out. Will there be anything left of Sun before the dust settles?

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posted by Matt Campbell

All I Really Need to Know About Programming I Learned in Kindergarten

November 13, 2009 2:44 AM

On the days that I pick up my daughter from Kindergarten, she’s always bursting with excitement over what she has learned that day. It often makes me wistful for my own Kindergarten days, almost 30 years ago. As I listen to my daughter talk about her day, I reflect on my own time in kindergarten, and how, trite as it might seem, that year spent in school at age six, really gave me all the tools and life lessons I needed to be a professional programmer.

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posted by Sten Anderson

Music Explorer FX v1.1: Now with “Fame” Control

November 11, 2009 6:56 PM

Version 1.1 of the JavaFX-based music discovery application, Music Explorer FX has been released. You can try it here: This version is mostly about performance and stability improvements and it’s also the first version to be released under JavaFX 1.2. Additionally, it sports a new feature: the “Fame” knob:

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posted by Sten Anderson

Jeff Atwood on whitespace

November 10, 2009 7:25 PM

This one had me laughing out loud. If you are a programmer of any kind (which you most likely are if you are reading my blog) then you should have Jeff Atwood in your RSS Reader, not just for his wit, but also for his insight.

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posted by Matt Campbell

End of an Era

November 9, 2009 4:47 PM

An Event that happened this week marked the end of an era for me: I lost the lid to my stainless steel thermal coffee tumbler (rendering it useless for on-the-go coffee) that I got at what some say could be the last JavaOne ever.

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posted by Matt Campbell

Three Ways Web Content Management Improves Marketing

November 4, 2009 3:53 PM

I’ve written before about how using a quality Web Content Management (WCM) system can be a big help to marketers. After last week’s Day Ignite Customer Summit in Chicago, I am more convinced of that than ever.

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posted by Bridget Kulla