This afternoon I’m live blogging from TheServerSide Symposium, attending ”Breaking all the Rules:  The Myth of Testing and Deployment in the Cloud” presented by fellow CodeRanch Andrew Monkhouse. 1.  CodeRanch History Andrew opens his talk with a discussion of CodeRanch performance, traffic, and memory usage.  He mentions there have been serious issues in the past that [...]

I’m live blogging from “Message Driven Architecture with Spring” by Mark Fisher at TheServerSide Java Symposium.  Mark talks about how Spring messaging involved with the idea simple POJOs, similar to JMS.  Mark’s examples involve RabbitMQ, as one of the more recent and powerful messaging providers.  Below are some notes for this talk. 1.  AMQP Mark introduces [...]

Jeanne and I will both be presenting talks at TheServerSide Java Symposium in March. In preparation for the conference, we will be providing sneak peaks of talks this week on the blog. I’m giving a lecture entitled “GWT Roundup: An Overview of Google’s Web Toolkit and Hybrid Integration” which provides a review of GWT for [...]