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Gen Y, Social Media, and the Enterprise

Tuesday, 3 June 2008 10:17 A GMT-05

Generation Y includes those in the age range 13 to 31. This is the largest generation ever, even surpassing the population of the Baby Boomers. In total their are about 80 million “GenYers”. This is a generation that has been brought up

Bringing Web 2.0 into the Enterprise

Friday, 28 March 2008 3:47 A GMT-05

Today, social networking, and user-generated content web sites are among the most popular sites on the Internet getting millions of hits every day. Sites like MySpace, Facebook, Flickr, and Google Apps allow users to share user-generated content a

Online Rails Development with Heroku

Monday, 17 March 2008 1:17 A GMT-05

Heroku is a web application that provides a complete environment for writing Ruby on Rails powered web applications. With Heroku you get both a development environment and a hosting platform. Each application that you create with Heroku is also ass

Three Great Books for Learning and Mastering Ruby on Rails

Sunday, 9 March 2008 2:47 A GMT-05

I tend to read a lot of technical books. My current passion is with the Ruby programming language and the Rails web application framework which is built on top of the Ruby language. I’m also a published technical author myself. The book that

The Java Phrasebook as a Teaching Tool

Friday, 8 February 2008 10:17 A GMT-05

It has been suggested to me by several reviewers including this one at the Java Lobby that the Java Phrasebook which I wrote last year would make an excellent text book or companion to a text book for a course on Java programming. After thinking abo

Programming Languages : Use the best tool for the job

Friday, 8 February 2008 10:17 A GMT-05

Over the weekend I finished reading the book The Rails Way. I actually enjoyed this book so much that I took the time to read it cover to cover. As good as this book was, it is not specifically the topic of this post. The last chapter of the book

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What is RESTful Development?

Tuesday, 5 February 2008 10:42 P GMT-05

This article is cross-posted from blog.timothyfisher.com . Recently, there has been a surge in popularity for a development pattern or technique known as RESTful development. Popular frameworks such as Ruby on Rails are fueling popularity of RE

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Ruby on Rails Bible Coming Soon!!!

Wednesday, 16 January 2008 2:40 P GMT-05

My next book will be coming in early spring, most likely May, 2008 from Wiley. The book is the Ruby on Rails Bible. The book covers the Rails framework in detail providing an overview of the Ruby programming language, an overview of Rails, detailed

My new book; the Java Phrasebook

Tuesday, 21 November 2006 3:30 P GMT-05

My new book, the Java Phrasebook from Sams Publishing provides a great concise guide to more than 100 customizable code snippets–so you can readily code functional Java in just about any situation. The Java Phrasebook gives you the code phrases you n

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Check out my new expanded blog...

Thursday, 22 December 2005 1:55 P GMT-05

Visit my new blog at blog.timothyfisher.com

Java, Ruby, and Rails...

Wednesday, 26 October 2005 12:19 P GMT-05

Another Java developer who has had interest sparked by Ruby and Rails.

Category: Java E-Learning Collaboration

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When Discussing Languages (i.e. Java and PHP), Look Beyond Your Comfort Zone and Learn Something New

Tuesday, 7 June 2005 2:42 P GMT-05

This is a follow-up to Tim's recent popular posting, "All the Cool Open Source Apps are in PHP." In this posting, Tim suggests that most Java and PHP developers don't know enough about the other's language and instead of learning, they resort to crit

Category: Java

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Achieving Software Reuse through Corporate Open Source

Friday, 3 June 2005 1:31 P GMT-05

A recent ComputerWorld article describes how Detroit-based DTE Energy is using an internal open source model to achieve software reuse. Closely related to the open source model, DTE uses an internal "community" based approach to allow their

Category: Java Collaboration

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Students Can Contribute to Open Source and Earn $4500

Thursday, 2 June 2005 12:16 P GMT-05

Google is sponsoring a project called the summer of code. Through this project, a student can earn $4500 for successfully completing an open source project contribution. The program's intent is to introduce students to the world of open source develo

Category: Java E-Learning Collaboration

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All The Cool Open Source Apps are in PHP

Wednesday, 25 May 2005 2:07 P GMT-05

It seems like most of the cool end-user web applications are written in PHP. This is an area in which the Java community is way behind the PHP community. The open source Java community seems to be consumed with the creation of the latest and greatest

Category: Java

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JetNuke – A Java powered CMS Platform

Thursday, 12 May 2005 12:48 P GMT-05

There's been a lot of discussion in the blog community lately about the lack of a good Content Management System (CMS) platform written in Java. The most popular opinion is that the PHP CMS platforms are superior to anything available in Java. A rela

Category: Java Collaboration

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Developing a Common Corporate Framework for your Java Applications

Monday, 9 May 2005 3:45 P GMT-05

In today's market, application development teams are often asked to complete applications in time frames shorter than ever before, with fewer resources, and at lower cost. This high pressure, fast-paced environment can open a door to poorly designed

Category: Java Collaboration

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Social Software In The Enterprise

Wednesday, 4 May 2005 3:16 P GMT-05

There is much research pointing to the fact that knowledge management and collaboration in an enterprise can lead to greater innovation, and enhanced creativity. Knowledge management tools have been around for a long time now. They allow an organizat

Category: Java E-Learning Collaboration

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New Java Portal from Sys-con

Friday, 29 April 2005 6:59 P GMT-05

Be sure to check out Sys-con's new Java portal at java.sys-con.comHere's a summary of some of their content: - The latest Java and Java community news. - Blogs from some of the leading Java authors and contributors. - Java product reviews. - Java

Category: Java

Extreme Programming (XP) Unbiased

Friday, 29 April 2005 6:59 P GMT-05

Extreme Programming (XP) has been a very hot topic over the past couple of years now. Unfortunately, while there has been much written about XP, most of it has been extremely slanted either in favor or in opposition. It is not easy to find an objecti

Category: Java

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IOC and Dependency Injection: What, Why, and How?

Wednesday, 27 April 2005 6:59 P GMT-05

By Timothy Fisher If you're active in the Java community, you've probably come across the term "dependency injection." This is a term that’s used more than it's defined, and has left a lot of developers without a clear understanding of

Category: Java

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Java Development on the T-Mobile Sidekick II

Wednesday, 23 March 2005 6:59 P GMT-05

The T-Mobile Sidekick II phone is getting alot of celebrity endorsement and publicity. Sometimes, not such great publicity, as in the case of the recent theft of Paris Hilton's phonebook from her T-Mobile Sidekick II.What I havn't seen talked about m

Category: Java

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