Whether you start with the database or start with code, no one wants to do the other one. Certainly by the DRY principle it is a waste of time and potentially a place where you could introduce bugs into your…

On YDN they have samples and documentation on how to use the Yahoo! Mail SOAP API from Axis2. I’m not a big fan of that method so I went ahead and used JAX-WS to do my dirty work. As an example, I will build an RSS feed of the…

I have reviewed these products in the past but I think they have rev’d enough times to make it worth my while to revisit them and see how far they have come. As a reminder, lets again review a couple of…

Update: Grails Migration Plugin Forum

About a month into building Gauntlet we found ourselves in a situation where it was impossible for us to keep our development databases up to date with the latest changes to the schema…

I started a very very small project this week to increase the usability of Maven 2. I find that although I love Maven as a back-end build processor, I kinda hate the XML configuration file and all the pain that goes with it. So rather…

I was a bit annoyed the other day that some of the Subversion repositories out there don’t have a way to send a notification to interested parties when a new change is made. There are a few other services on the web that claim to do this but when…

A really cool application, Pipes, from Yahoo! launched the other day and has the potential to really make it easy to mashup web applications and repurpose data.

It is loosely based on the Unix pipes model of using small programs chained together to process…

Since I get asked a lot for advice about what kinds of electronics to buy, I am starting a new page on my site that tracks “my current config”. I’m limiting it to a small set of categories that I think include the most important purchases that people make. Am I leaving anything out? Should I also have software on there?

Versus is a research project by some Bix developers (my friend John Beatty is one of them) at Yahoo that is trying to aggregate the arguments for choosing between two or more competitive offerings.