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Online Mind Mapping A couple of smart friends of mine are strong advocates of mind maps, so much in fact that they had nothing better to do than develop http://wisemapping.com. It's a pretty...
Moving back to Argentina In March, I accepted a new position within BEA, to work for BEA Argentina. After more than six years in the U.S., my wife and I were thinking about moving back to Argentina....
Violating Java's privacy I found myself in the need to invoke a private method of a Java class that was out of my control. I really needed it. So, I went ahead and violated the method's privacy...
History and auto-completion with rlwrap If you ever used Oracle's sqlplus you'd agree that it provides an arcane command-line interface. Being a textmode command-line tool is not what makes it arcane though. It's...
On API Design Guidelines Update: Good news! Jaroslav Toulash emailed me that he published a book on Practical API Design !!! Looks like Brian McAllister may be preparing a talk on Designing Elegant...
Variable Severity Logging Most software products and logging frameworks produce entries in their log files with different severity levels (say, from Debug to Severe). Then, you can configure which...
AntDoclet 1.1 I just released a new version of AntDoclet. No major changes. Now the comments of inherited methods are properly extracted from the parent class comments. Thanks to Daniel...
On What BPM Promises Tom Baeyens (from jBPM) wrote an interesting article about the over-promises of some BPMS (Business Process Management System) vendors. His dicussion addresses two points: BPM...
Real-world SOA at Amazon A great interview with Amazon's CTO Werner Vogels appeared in ACM's Queue magazine. A must read if you care about how to run a modern IT organization. The SOA acronym has been...
Project-Oriented IT Over the last years I had the opportunity to work on projects for really big companies. My initial observations led me to think that the bigger the company the more...