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I just got my 19″ LCD from Dell today. My friend Matt found me a great deal. Now I’m in dual head bliss. On one screen: code. On the other: browser.

Key principles for business-driven development
“…a major update of IBM Rational’s six best practices for software development…”
Here’s a quote from the best practice entitled “Demonstrate value iteratively”:
“Rather than relying on assessing specifications, such as requirements specifications, design models, or plans, you instead need to assess how well the code that’s been developed thus far actually works.”
This […]

I just got this bit of IBM news in my inbox today.
IBM is hosting an external wiki on the developerWorks site
http://awlinux1.alphaworks.ibm.com/wiki/display/ettk/ETTK
Look at it. It’s Confluence. Cool!

Here are the slides from the Spring talk I gave last night.
Spring Talk (PDF: 60.6 KB). Here is the link to Martin Fowler’s article on dependency injection. Thank you to everyone who came to the Omaha Java Users Group meeting. I’m also thankful that 1st staff is committed enough to OJUG […]

This morning I’ve been reading up on cross site scripting. It all started with this article about how to use AOP to fix XSS vulnerabilities. Here are some other links to learn more:
Handling Java Web Application Input, Part 2, Making Wrong Code Look Wrong, CERT Advisory. One of the keys to getting […]

wow. I love reading Joel on Software. Check out this article about prioritizing. Which reminds me I need to write some code.
Update: a fellow MSI worker showed me this site. My first thought about the site was: “I don’t have time to read about how to be more productive right now.” […]

A big big Thank You to my good friend Dan Conner. Mad props go to him for giving my little corner of the web a home on his dime.