Over years of moderating at The JavaRanch, I’ve seen one type of question spring up on a weekly basis: that asked by people who need help with JDBC code inside of Java Server Pages (JSPs). As much as we may want to help this individual fix their particular problem, the overriding thought of [...]

Disclaimer: I am an avid Mac enthusiast, but as a software developer I don’t have luxury of switching over to Mac completely, therefore my primary computer is still Windows based. This article is not meant to promote Microsoft, Windows, nor Vista, but merely to share my thoughts after installing Vista as a highly [...]

About ten years ago, I speculated that we wouldn’t need separate devices for the phone, answering machine, tv, vcr and internet. I thought they would all merge into one device – which would be serviced by the “media company.”  While that didn’t quite happen, there are now companies selling the service.  Both Verizon FIOS (phone [...]