Experiences

A Meeting Between a Guru and a Newbie
12 Jan 2003 - Like most linux advocates, I too have that "interested" friend who wants to finally ditch windows (windows xp) and take the Linux "plunge" (as seen by that individual). After debating with myself over which installation...

Reviews

MandrakeMove First Impressions
18 Jan 2004 - I want to start off by saying that MandrakeMove is an incredible distribution and I am going to focus on some rather particular points in this review. My hope is to make the community aware...

Tutorials

Speed up your JSF-based Seam Application by Two Orders of Magnitude
1 Mar 2009 - In this two-part article, you'll be presented with a series of four lessons for eliminating performance problems in a JSF-based Seam application one-by-one until you have observed a remarkable, two orders of magnitude improvement in performance.
Spring into Seam
18 Apr 2008 - JBoss Seam unifies the Java EE platform under an accessible component-based model. Its reach also extends to Spring. In this series, excerpted from Seam in Action, you'll learn how to leverage the Spring container from Seam and vice-versa.
Seamless JSF
17 Apr 2007 - JavaServer Faces (JSF) is the first standardized user interface (UI) framework for Java Web applications. JBoss Seam is a powerful application framework that extends JSF. In this three-part series, you will discover how the strong chemistry between these two frameworks can streamline your development efforts.
Konstructing a New KDE Desktop
26 Apr 2004 - The purpose of this little tutorial is to introduce a better solution to upgrading KDE, one that will allow a user to get a release up and running the night it hits the mirrors, without...
Hash Tables in Javascript
24 Nov 2002 - Javascript is a prototype based object-oriented language where an objects is a mapping from property names to values. This tutorial demonstrates how to wrap these native objects with an hash table implementation similar to that...