Early this year, I made the switch from Google Bookmarks to Xmarks . I've been really happy with Xmarks and have used it to sync the bo...

I've been using Subversion and TortoiseSVN since 2005.  They're both great technologies and I'm very happy they exist.  Howev...

This is the first post in what I plan to be a series about a small application named FogBugzReporter that I began writing in October of 200...

I've decided to try out DISQUS for handling comments on my blog. Let me know what you think. I can always revert back to Blogger commen...

I’ve been using VisualVM on and off with modest success since I first found out about it at JavaOne 2008 .  In addition, since JDK 6 updat...

Back in March of last year, I wrote a post comparing Groovy and Scala .  Enough time has passed that I thought it was worth revisiting the t...

I was reading some articles on PCWorld (see my last post to find out why ) and came upon an interesting link in one of the comments.  The l...

I kept noticing blog entries with beautifully rendered source code snippets and finally clicked the blue question mark in the upper left ...

JetBrains has recently started the JetBrains Seeder Program , an attempt to build a volunteer evangelism network for their products. I'...

I recently stumbled upon a very interesting pair of research projects that started at the University of Washington. The first is titled, Usi...

I was recently reading some postings on High Scalability and came upon one discussing some cool new features in EC2 . It also mentioned a ...

I was just looking at the blog of Jeff Winkler , another member of the Boston Java Meetup and saw his entry, " Fix Offscreen Windows E...