With Java 5 having been out for a while now, I started to think about what might be next for the Java language. I'm not thinking about what might change with JEE (nee J2EE), or the extensions or libraries or anything like that. I'm thinking about the core language itself. ...

Frank Cohen (founder of PushToTest, who I helped for a while on TestMaker) has been blogging about a system he's calling FastSOA. It's an attempt to help build a more scalable SOA architecture by avoiding the some high cost operations like marshalling XML data into native objects. As I understand ...

Visual Studio is known for its WYSIWYG, drag-and-drop user interface creation. But when it comes to actually writing code, it's fairly anemic. Sure it has code completion (Intellisense ™) and syntax highlighting and a few things like that, but it doesn't offer support for more advanced functionality that many people, ...

The Haunted are the best band of all time! (With former members of At The Gates, the second best band of all time, you shouldn't be surprised.) They are a melodic, loud, Swedish metal band. I love them so much I would marry them if they were not all Swedish ...

The new Milwaukee Public Market has opened this past weekend and you should check it out if you're in the area. They've got a bunch of great shops there and more coming from what they say. We checked it out on the grand opening weekend and supposedly something like 15,000 ...

Templating for web pages is a method to separate form from content. Just like HTML and CSS separate form from content, a templating system allows you to further separate the common structure of a page from the "Stuff" that people want to read. Is there a best way to do ...