Answering Joel Spolsky’s Questions On Enterprise Development

September 4th, 2006 Last week was an interesting one as hot debate raged over Joel Spolsky's article on enterprise language, Hani rightly bashed copious logging of open source software and my article on hacking attempts from Caltech topped the list of most read articles. We released Anaconda, a beautiful 3 column WordPress theme and version 3 of Translator Plugin Pro for WordPress.

August 2nd, 2005 Joel Spolsky of Joel on Software fame has written an excellent article on the value of star programmers in a product development team. To summarize: Star programmers significantly outperform average programmers often with 5-10 times difference in productivity.

April 12th, 2006 Java Studio Enterprise provides a complete solution for architecting and implementing large-scale enterprise applications in Java EE. Sun plans to open source major elements of the Sun Java Studio Enterprise as a project on NetBeans.org - NetBeans Enterprise Pack.

December 15th, 2007 BEA SmartConnect 3.0 aims to reduce total cost of ownership and time-to-market for ERP applications by allowing rapid development of SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) based applications. BEA SmartConnect 3.0 consists of complete connectivity solution designed to allow service-enabling enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications to quickly build new service-oriented architecture (SOA)-based applications.

February 9th, 2006 I have been interviewing several freshers who were taught Java in engineering schools under computer science curriculum. Interviewing them highlighted serious problems with their education as well as with the system.

November 26th, 2005 Sun is offering for free full-license versions of Sun's award winning integrated development environments (IDEs) - Sun Java Studio Creator 2004Q2 (full license) and Sun Java Studio Enterprise 8 (full license). I have used Sun Java Studio Creator and I liked it very much.

August 9th, 2005 As an architect I have often been asked this question by my clients, friends and at work. I would like to answer it briefly once and for all.

June 13th, 2007 I am an avid JSP / Servlets user (and fan) since its introduction. Nothing gives me more pleasure than to quickly prototype and deliver a robust application within few days (even a single day) for a client using JSP and servlets.

August 16th, 2005 Back to The POJO days and lots of goodies scheduled with Java Enterprise Edition 5.

July 17th, 2005 According to Forrester survey data and analysis, Java's 66% penetration is the highest among strategic programming languages for enterprise applications. Visual Basic 6 (VB6) and C/C++ have nearly as much penetration as Java, but VB6 is past mainstream support and C/C++ has a comparatively limited ecosystem.

October 9th, 2009 CentOS Enterprise Linux 5 is built from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux source code. Other than logo and name changes CentOS Enterprise Linux 5 is compatible with the equivalent Red Hat version.

April 10th, 2006 Java Platform Enterprise Edition (Java EE, formerly referred to as J2EE) Version 5 has arrived. Its streamlined features offer added convenience, improved performance, and reduced development time, all of which enable developers to bring products to market faster.

August 2nd, 2005 Debugging guidelines for NetBeans and Sun Java Studio Enterprise. Debugging Tips for Applications Built With Sun Java Studio Enterprise 7 Debugging Java Software using NetBeans 3.6

July 18th, 2005 The fundamental questions There are two questions that you need to ask when compiling your program: 1. What do I know about the platforms that this program will run on? 2.

June 21st, 2006 "Magnolia 3.0 is a commercial open-source Enterprise Content Management System that integrates web content management (CMS) and document management (DMS) through one web-based, AJAX-powered user interface. It is used around the world to maintain web sites, intranets and extranets by companies, governments and NGO's of any size." In my experience it is very user friendly and I recommend it.