Friday, January 23, 2015

Adopt-a-JSR for Java EE - CJUG Meetup Recap

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This fall, the Chicago Java User Group (CJUG) adopted JSR-366 , the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE 8) Specification.  To that en...
Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Honored to be Part of the NetBeans Dream Team

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I have recently been honored via invitation to join the NetBeans Dream Team .  I've been using NetBeans IDE since its infancy, and I...
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Friday, November 28, 2014

Book Review: RESTful Java Patterns and Best Practices

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I had the privilege to review the book RESTful Java Patterns and Best Practices , authored by Bhakti Mehta for Packt Publishing.  In short,...
Sunday, November 23, 2014

NetBeans Tip: Working with JPQL

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Have you heard of the NetBeans JPQL tool?  This is an often overlooked feature of NetBeans IDE that can save developers a lot of time. If ...
Tuesday, November 04, 2014

Building and Testing JSF.next

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The JSF 2.3 Expert Group is hard at work determining which features will be part of the upcoming release.  The JSF Team been working hard im...
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Friday, October 17, 2014

NetBeans PrimeFaces Lightning Talk

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During JavaOne 2014, I had the pleasure to present a lightning talk covering the excellent PrimeFaces support that is offered by NetBeans 8 ...
Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Reflecting on JavaOne 2014 - Java 8, JavaFX 8, IoT, and Java EE 8

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There were many buzz-words flying around JavaOne 2014: Java 8, JavaFX8, IoT, Java EE 8, NetBeans, Lambdas, Streams, Parallel Processing, J...
Thursday, August 28, 2014

JavaOne 2014 Sessions

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I am delighted to be presenting on Java EE topics this year at JavaOne.  In particular, I will be presenting on Concurrency Utilities for Ja...
Friday, August 22, 2014

Getting Started with PrimeFaces Mobile

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Introduction If you have developed an application that utilizes PrimeFaces, or if you are planning to develop a web application for use o...
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Saturday, August 02, 2014

Chicago Coder Conference Trip Report

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The Chicago Coder Conference was held on Friday, August 5th.  The conference venue was a sleek downtown facility on Wacker Drive.  There wer...
Tuesday, July 22, 2014

JSF 2.3 on the Horizon

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Work on the  JavaServer Faces 2.3 Specification has begun.  According to the specification summary: This JSR aims to improve the clarity o...