I just completed a search for a new job. In these economic times, finding a job can be daunting, even in the software industry, which has fared better than most. (Today, it was announced that the official unemployment rate in the U.S. is 10.2%, the highest level in 25 years.) Despite these obstacles, this was the easiest and most rewarding job search of my career.

Agile project management doesn't suit every situation...

One the comments I'm getting about Atmosphere is why should I use the framework instead of waiting for Servlet 3.0 Async API. Well, it simple: much simpler, works with any existing Java WebServer (including Google App Engine!), and will auto-detect the Servlet 3.0 Async API if you deploy your application on a WebServer that support it.

Once again the incredible productivity boosts provided by Grails have become glaringly obvious.... what is it this time???? Dealing with JSON!!

The Health Center provides live information and recommendations about classes being loaded, the virtual machine environment, garbage collection, locking, and profiling. This article introduces you to the Health Center and shows an example of how it can be used to check the impact of a source code change in a Web application.

One of the pillars of design for testability, which is listed also in the Google guide for code reviewers, is to have constructors that do not contain logic or method calls. I will explain the reasons behind this choice with an example, but let me say that to reduce dependencies it is natural for a class to avoid making assumptions on the external environment, performing things like creating new objects. Separating the business responsibility of a class from the one of wiring itself to other objects is necessary.

This tutorial will demonstrate how to create a wysiwyg (visual) HTML editor using IHTMLdocument2 class in mshtml.

In this tutorial I will be showing you how you would go about Sending Email Using Gmail in C#.

In this tutorial, i am writing down all my knowledge of how to work with the wonders of the System.Drawing.Graphics class. Note: I am doing this in .NET 3.5, however i am positive it will also work in .NET 3.0. I am also positive it will work in .NET 2.0, but i am not sure if it will work in .NET 1.0.

At this year's GSMA Mobile World Congress, 3 ½ hours were devoted to the topic of "Mobilizing Open Source", which was no doubt spurred in part by the increasing attention Google's open-source mobile operating system, Android, has drawn. While open-source products have, for the most part, been pushed into a corner and untouched in the enterprise due to lack of support, regular updates, and compatibility, the mobile market is a unique bird.