By ashvil on 7/22/2001 12:27 PM

Keld Hansen presents a simple JSP-architecture, along with a handful of useful techniques, for the quick creation of web-applications - without loss of quality.

By ashvil on 7/2/2001 3:53 PM

In March of 1982, conservative theorists James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling published an article in the Atlantic Monthly introducing a new crime fighting theory known as broken windows. The theory states: if the first broken window in a building is not repaired, then people who like breaking windows will assume that no one cares about the building and more windows will be broken. Soon the building will have no windows....

This is not one of so called theoretical theories. Nowhere has broken windows become more prominent than in New York City. Upon his election in 1994, Mayor Rudolph Guiliani instituted sweeping changes in his police department adopting a zero tolerance approach stressed by broken windows. Guiliani ordered his police to enforce even the lowest level offenses including jaywalking, vagrancy and public intoxication. Coinciding with these policies was a dramatic drop in overall crime, particularly serious crime.

I saw this difference between 1994 and 1997. In two years New York was transformed from a place where people were scared to go out in the night to a sight where families used to take their kids in strollers for night outings.

Anyway, the main reason for posting this article is there are too many of these small broken windows in the software industry and I want to make sure there are addressed now, rather then later The two important ones are communication and sense of group responsibility.

We need to work very hard on communication. I have seen a lot of time being wasted due to poor communication.

The other thing is a sense of group responsibility. We need to believe that we work as a team. It does not matter if my work is done, if the end result is that if the software does not ship, for whatever reason, all of us suffer. We need to move away from \"my work\" and to TEAMWORK and get away from \"it was not by job\" to do that.

By ashvil on 6/18/2001 2:53 PM

>A gaggle of computing giants will release Monday a new version of a key Web standard, the UDDI directory, that provides some common ground on how competitors such as Microsoft, IBM and Sun Microsystems view the future of the Internet.

By ashvil on 6/12/2001 7:54 PM

>That\'s the premise behind shareware, a concept that dates to the early days of personal computers. Essentially, creators of shareware ask users to pay for their software if they try it and find it useful. Some use a bit of coercion, building time limits into their programs or requiring payment for access to some features. Games and utilities are the biggest shareware hits, but complete sets of business applications are also sold this way. As the name implies, shareware developers are happy to have people share their products, because they can ultimately benefit when the software is copied far and wide.

By ashvil on 6/7/2001 7:55 PM

>With the bursting of the high-tech bubble, the prevailing social mood is shifting from Internet worship to cynicism. The attitude that \"the Internet changes everything\" has given way in some quarters to denigration of the Net as a fad, the citizen\'s band radio of the 1990s. Yet just as the early tone was overoptimistic, the new one could easily become unjustifiably pessimistic. To avoid overreactions, it might be useful to analyze what propelled the dot-com craze to the ridiculous heights it reached in 1999 and early 2000

By ashvil on 5/28/2001 7:56 PM

Jon Udell talks about using weblogs as Project management tools.

By ashvil on 5/24/2001 10:22 PM

Antarcti.ca\'s Visual Net  software transforms networks into places; data into virtual maps. Visual Net creates maps of networks to help users visualize data and find what they\'re looking for.

By ashvil on 5/17/2001 11:57 AM

It funny but people give different responses on the same question depending on the context. That I always feel that asking a user a hypotetical set of questions is never going to get you the right answer. The best method as Jeff describes is to put the tool in the users\' hands and watch them use it and learn from that experience.

By ashvil on 5/16/2001 4:19 PM

The Simple Object Access Protocol, better known as SOAP, is aimed squarely at this data consolidation problem. Recently approved by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), SOAP uses XML and HTTP to define a component interoperability standard on the Web.

By ashvil on 5/16/2001 4:57 AM

Tapestry is a new, powerful, all-Java framework for creating leading edge web applications in Java. This is the closest someone has come to using the IDBA style of templates for web app development.