With 17 years of systems development and 12 of them as a hands-on developer, David has become a J2EE mentor and trainer to many individuals. As a specialist in federal and state government compliance applications, he has been a project manager for on-and-offshore development teams for large projects, an integrator of COTS applications to custom deliverables and EAI initiatives, and a team leader and development manager with excellent motivational skills. With profound knowledge of object-oriented methodologies, database application design and web-based application development, David has a deep background in large-scale enterprise applications with transaction processing using J2EE, .NET, UML, messaging, and other integration technologies. David has wide experience with open-source cross-platform development and integration and is an excellent communicator ...<< MORE >>

Hey I'll be teaching a "pre-class" at the upcoming Red Hat Summit in June. The title of the class is "Bitter JBoss", which the marketing types were a little concerned about. The title comes from the series of now classic books by Tate called "Bitter Java" and "Bitter EJB", which depict just how NOT to use these advanced technologies. I have the same thing in mind, whereby many people have implemented Red Hat's technological stack, which can go up quite easily and with little pre-training, but they run into roadblocks when actually putting these components under stress. There's where the rubber meets the road.

Hmm, I may even use this to write a book called, "Bitter ..." hmm...

Well, the time has arrived. The wireless application is now accepted. Everybody's doin it, and we'll all have apps galore on our iPhones and Droids. See, I've been doing this stuff for years. It's been a long, hard slog to get people to see the value of real applications held in the hand, providing real value for users, both for recreation and business. What has caused this adoption of the technology, to the point that we all will be using this stuff in a few more months? ... << MORE >>

I have to say that I've been around these 20+ years, and I've developed rather large complex projects on just about every tool available. I'm a deep developer with J2EE, PHP, and .NET Compact Framework, and I've always been very unhappy with the tools we were given to produce user-interface-heavy applications. For most of my career, RIA meant a hip town in Brazil. ...<< MORE >>

I gotta say a little bit about the gig I've been on for the last month. Located in New Jersey, a major financial house has purchased tons of Red Hat technology, including JBoss, and has a large group of sharp folks that are working hard to get all this new cool software integrated into the corporation. It takes lots of testosterone, however. ...<< MORE >>

Well, it finally happened -- I got rid of my Baby. She was an adorable, exciting, and demanding partner for over 6 years. Now she's gone -- and I'm not too sad.

"She" is the wireless hand-held solution for USDA compliance known to the Food Safety industry as Mobilitee, and she was a very cool software product. In the space of a few short months, she became the darling of the industry, and some called her the "gold standard." And she came about quite by accident.

Mobilitee started life as a brainchild of mine when I owned a consultancy with 2 partners ...<< MORE >>

So what is the next new language? Why need a new language? Isn't where we are good enough? I believe that the answers to these 3 questions are Dunno, Yes, and No. Let me explain.

We are truly in the Software Dark Ages. It is crazy in 2008 that we have to jump through such hoops when attempting to create elegant solutions for enterprise users. Web applications, for example, are such that no current platform readily adopts to the web model. So we use workarounds like Struts, JSF, Ajax, and others because there are simply no credible alternatives. J2EE has been ...<< MORE >>