Archive for July, 2005

Java Out of the Enterprise

I don’t really think of sys-con.com’s linux site when I’m looking for Java news but this entry caught my eye. In it, he complains about the tendency of java libraries to make heavy use of patterns like the Factory pattern to provide as much flexibility as possible. He’s not the first one I’ve [...]

Testing Article Online

Well, it’s finally up. Last month I wrote an article comparing JUnit (3), JTiger, and TestNG and submitted to the theserverside.com. It finally posted today. The formatting didn’t *quite* survive the conversion to HTML (the tables are a little funky) but it’s up at least. So check it out and let [...]

ArrayList vs LinkedList

I was really surprised to see this article. I typically have only ever used ArrayList because it fits my needs but I’ve always reserved the option of inserting another List should the situation change. After reading this, though, it doesn’t seem there’s much point to using LinkedList ever. I can see why [...]

New Website Design

After sitting on the design my web guy gave me for a few weeks, I finally decided to carve out some time and implement the design. You can see the new design on the home page now. I haven’t managed to get all of the design done, yet. There are few more [...]