I was just looking for some Spring documentation when I cam across this posting, http://springframework.org/node/654 that was linked from the Spring home page.  In the picture on the left, there’s a shiny head that I happened to recognize as my coworker, Jason Allen.  I looked a little closer and found myself in the picture.  I’m […]

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When I work from our Orem Office, I’m surrounded by people who call themselves ‘architects’. I’ve always hated this title in the software industry. It doesn’t mean anything. If you take a room full of five software architects and ask them what it means to be a software architect, you’ll get five […]

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A coworker of mine has been looking into the Git source code management system. He showed me how Git can integrate with Subversion. It looked pretty cool so I decided to give it a try and now I’m hooked.
Git was created by Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux kernel. He gave […]

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The days I have class at BYU, I work from our offices that are close to BYU campus instead of commuting back up to my normal place of work in Salt Lake City. I’ve only been working from this location for a few weeks.
The other day I walked past a book shelf and […]

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I didn’t have any significant difficulties with Lab 1.  For the most part I thought it was fairly trivial.  No offense to those who struggled.  I’ve been building web applications professionally for years and I’ve been using Linux as my desktop OS exclusively for almost 5 years.  The lab was still beneficial though and I […]

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The Apache MINA project just announced the 1.1.0 release of MINA. This is a significant release because it takes advantage of many of the benefits of Java 5 including the new concurrency library as well as generics and a few other things. It’s very similar to MINA 1.0 as far as functionality goes. […]

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