Object Oriented Vancouver

May 31, 2005

EJB -> EJB2 -> Hibernate -> EJB3

Filed under: Java — kevinw @ 8:40 pm

The serverside.com has a good webinar about the EJB roadmap, and how it relates to Hibernate.

The talk is given by Gavin King of Hibernate and JBoss - obviously eminent in the area. It has lots of great info, but Gavin is a um, ah - um, aaaaaaaa - ahem; a disappointingly bad speaker - not that I’m any good.

Just a warning if you’re going to watch the webcast.

Improve processing speed with good Object oriented design

Filed under: Object Oriented Design — kevinw @ 8:37 pm

I found this great posting on IBM-Developerworks comparing Synchronous and Sequential processing against Asynchronous and Concurrent processing. We do it all the time when we schedule projects - “part A and part B are unrelated so they can be worked on at the same time…” So why not apply that same thinking to developing complex applications. Why don’t our multithreaded, multiprocessor, multiserver applications take advantage of the same benefits?

Proof that process design can have a significant impact on performance of a system.

Filed under: Web Design — kevinw @ 8:31 pm

Another one from Jacob et al. - this time they have some good advice on building better search interfaces

Add smooth borders to divs using CSS - I might use this one.

using css to emulate frames based layout - interesting. One more reason not to use frames - as if you need another one…

Open source CMS options

Filed under: Content Management — kevinw @ 8:29 pm

http://www.opensourcecms.com/
http://oscom.org/

Newsmonkey

Filed under: RSS — kevinw @ 8:25 pm

Newsmonkey - a decent flash based rss aggregator.