Norman RichardsI want my two dollarsSeam talk in St. Louis (this time for real)- (Found July 15, 2008 ) I was supposed to give a Seam talk at the St. Louis JUG earlier this year, but due to some particularly nasty weather the meeting had to be cancelled. Fortunately we were able to reschedule for the warmer month of July. I'll be there this Thursday (July 10th) giving a brand new Seam talk: 10 things you need to know about Seam. I'll cover my own take on the 10 most important things you should know about Seam. If you have been considering Seam, but haven't been able to pull the trigger or...http://members.capmac.org/~orb/blog.cgi/tech/java/Seam_talk_in_St._Lo.html Technologies I'm learning now- (Found July 15, 2008 ) It's about half-way through the year, so I thought I might catch up my new "stuff I'm learning" list. Here's the three things that are (or soon will be) taking up most of my learning time: Git At the beginning of the year, I wanted to learn about distributed version control. The two choices were git and mercurial. After a bit of research, I decided to give git a try. I've been using git (hosted at github) for 3 or 4 months, but for some book work and for some of my side projects. I...http://members.capmac.org/~orb/blog.cgi/tech/java/Technologies_I_m_le.html Factory vs Singleton- (Found July 15, 2008 ) It's an interesting question. When I first wrote against singletons, back in 2003, design pattern mania was still in full swing, and few people seemed ready to accept that the holy book of design patterns might be teaching techniques which are really more anti-patterns than patterns. But, in the last year or so, popular opinion has finally swung against the singleton to the point that we can start questioning other object management techniques. The first thing I'll say is that there is...http://members.capmac.org/~orb/blog.cgi/tech/java/Factory_vs_Singleton.html |