Monthly Archives: April 2008

Spring Announces Application Server

My boys over at InfoQ just posted the big news!!!  With JavaOne around the corner, SpringSource released a non-JEE application server. Spring founder, Rob Johnson, explained the main motivations for the release:
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Agile within a Complex Domain

I have been working on a project with a very complex domain for the last year and a half.  Our team has been doing our best to make use of agile principles, but I am seeing a few places where Agile breaks down.  The greatest challenge for our project is that the stakeholders do not [...] Continue reading

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Top 10 Mistakes when building Flex Applications

Adobe’s James Ward and I just finished up another Flex Top 10 for InfoQ.com, this one outlines the common mistakes when building Flex applications. I am happy with how this one came out, as it is packed with loads of good content. Check it out to learn how to make your Flex applications even better.
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Flex Good – Standards Bad (kind of)

I just finished up a post on Flex and the Open Web for InfoQ, summarizing Adobe’s Ryan Stewart’s response to critiques saying that Flex breaks the open web. I understand that Adobe has to do their best to win over the entire software community, but I for one care little about standards. They do have [...] Continue reading

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