I'm often asked what static code tools I like for Java. First, I've been nearly full-time in Ruby and Rails for a year now, so I may be out of date, but here's what I like. Findbugs Findbugs is the absolute best tool for static code analysis. But best is a nebulous and somewhat relative term. I prefer something with a very low noise to signal...

I'm often asked what static code tools I like for Java. First, I've been nearly full-time in Ruby and Rails for a year now, so I may be out of date, but here's what I like. Findbugs Findbugs is the absolute best tool for static code analysis. But best is a nebulous and somewhat relative term. I prefer something with a very low noise to signal...

The topic of Continuous Integration and physical feedback comes up at many No Fluff shows... in fact, it came this weekend in Salt Lake City. Some people use Lava Lamps, sirens, voice clips, and many other mechanisms. But this old blog entry of mine has a link to a great parody video of Microsoft's We Share Your Pain program. Take a few minutes...

The topic of Continuous Integration and physical feedback comes up at many No Fluff shows... in fact, it came this weekend in Salt Lake City. Some people use Lava Lamps, sirens, voice clips, and many other mechanisms. But this old blog entry of mine has a link to a great parody video of Microsoft's We Share Your Pain program. Take a few minutes...

At our meeting tonight Ryan Shriver is speaking about this practical topic. We had to move the meeting forward a week to dodge the holidays and a trip Ryan is making to London for another conference. In addition to having a great speaker in the house, we're also giving away some great No Fluff, Just Stuff swag. We've got a free pass to the...

At our meeting tonight Ryan Shriver is speaking about this practical topic. We had to move the meeting forward a week to dodge the holidays and a trip Ryan is making to London for another conference. In addition to having a great speaker in the house, we're also giving away some great No Fluff, Just Stuff swag. We've got a free pass to the...

Jason Rudolph is presenting his popular talk on Getting Started with Grails tonight at the RTP Java User's Group. If you're wanting to learn more about this dynamic language innovation on the Java platform, don't miss this event. Even if you don't use Grails at your day job today, you need to understand the basic concepts. Then you'll be able...

Jason Rudolph is presenting his popular talk on Getting Started with Grails tonight at the RTP Java User's Group. If you're wanting to learn more about this dynamic language innovation on the Java platform, don't miss this event. Even if you don't use Grails at your day job today, you need to understand the basic concepts. Then you'll be able...

This picture on Dave Thomas' flickr stream just sums it all up. I wish I could read Matz' addition! RubyKaigi2007_59 If you can't say this about your programming language (or your career for that matter!), you're doing it wrong.

This picture on Dave Thomas' flickr stream just sums it all up. I wish I could read Matz' addition! RubyKaigi2007_59 If you can't say this about your programming language (or your career for that matter!), you're doing it wrong.

This week I was in Iowa for both a Central Iowa Java Users's Group meeting and Agile Iowa meeting. (The trip was sponsored by the Central Iowa Software Symposium... coming in August!) One of the attendees commented on how they had to move away from CruiseControl because it was single threaded and they needed a more scalable solution. First, let...

This week I was in Iowa for both a Central Iowa Java Users's Group meeting and Agile Iowa meeting. (The trip was sponsored by the Central Iowa Software Symposium... coming in August!) One of the attendees commented on how they had to move away from CruiseControl because it was single threaded and they needed a more scalable solution. First, let...

I recently heard about Nginx. It's a web server with a great track record in Russia that's starting to spread out to the rest of the world. According to a recent podcast I heard, Zed seems to be using it with his production Rails apps, which is always a good sign. At RailsConf I got to eat with Adam Keys and his enthusiasm for it's speed, ease...

I recently heard about Nginx. It's a web server with a great track record in Russia that's starting to spread out to the rest of the world. According to a recent podcast I heard, Zed seems to be using it with his production Rails apps, which is always a good sign. At RailsConf I got to eat with Adam Keys and his enthusiasm for it's speed, ease...

If you read this blog regularly or heard me speak, you've probably had to endure an enthusiastic rant about virtualization. I think it's a great thing that can make your life much easier. Now that X86 Virtualization is commonly available, we can run a guest operating system just as fast as if it were the only operating system running on the...