Buzzword alert! Buzzword alert! Synergisticly expedite transparent web-readiness! Buzzword alert! Buzzword alert! Ok, now that I've got that out of the way... Ajax is a web application development architecture that resembles more of a client-server architecture than traditional web development. In an Ajax application a client application is delivered to the browser ...

So the existence of Materialized Views might not be news to the Oracle DBAs around the world, but I present topics from the perspective of a software developer. As software developers we often have to use databases with our applications. As a user of a database, I think it is ...

I've recently been doing some performance testing and tuning on an application. It makes use of Hibernate for the data access and ORM and Spring to configure and wire together everything. As I was looking at all of the configuration and came upon the fact that we were using the ...

For the past year, I've been running Zorched.NET on a Virtual Private Server (VPS). Virtualization is not a new technology, IBM was doing it WAY back in the day. But recently it has become a lot more common as hardware has gotten so much more powerful. Why let hardware sit ...

Firefox 2 is just around the corner. With the recent release of Firefox 2 RC2 I've started using it more. It has a number of new features that you can read about in the release notes. I've already written about JavaScript 1.7 which adds some cool new features for developers. ...

I recently got a free copy of RJS Templates for Rails from the Milwaukee Ruby User's Group. O'Reilly has a program that makes books available for free to Users Groups, which is a really nice thing (of course they bank on the word-of-mouth advertising that comes from it. Hi O'Reilly! ...