| Succeeding as a Developer In Todays Economy |
| The ServerSide |
September 25th, 2001 |
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| A discussion and article about the current marketplace and the skills required to survive in the current and future chaos. Well worth the time to read if you are nervous about your job situation. |
| Memoirs of eXtreme DragonSlayers, part 8 |
| Dan Hattenberger |
October 2001 |
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| This particular DragonSlayer article is taking a look at the best methods of storing and reusing data which is accessed repeatedly by the customer. The DragonSlayers is a long running set of article from IBM exploring building a sample JSP application. While the article-series has too much of a IBM toolset bent for my likes, some of the articles have been quite interesting. |
| The complete index of the DragonSlayer articles. |
| Where are Web Services Today? |
| Mark Waterhouse |
October 3rd, 2001 |
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| A relatively positive article on web services. It reviews some strengths and weaknesses to web services. |
| Web Services: It's So Crazy, It Just Might Not Work |
| Clay Shirky |
October 3rd, 2001 |
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| And counterpoint. This is a review on why web services won't work as all the
hype portrays. |
| XMethods |
| A decent site with a listing of web services to access and some basic web service information. |
| Using J2EE Services from JSP |
| Qusay H. Mahmoud |
October 2001 |
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| A quick and high level review on how JSP and J2EE can live together. |
| A Cautionary Tale for a New Age of Surveillance |
| NY Times |
October 7th, 2001 |
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| OK this isn't a technical article. However, the story is shocking as the effects of terrorism within the United Kingdom has prompted the installation of a few million surveillance camera's around the country. The article is a very serious look at a possible future for the United States. This article requires a free registration to read. |
| XML in Java : Document Models, Part 1: Performance |
| Dennis M. Sosnoski |
September 2001 |
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| A must read article for anyone playing around with Java and XML. It's both a review of current XML parsers and comparison on performance results. Great article. |
| Using JDBC to Extract Data Into XML |
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| The tutorial assumes that you are already familiar with Java and XML in general, and the Document Object Model (DOM) in particular. You should be familiar with Java programming, but prior Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) knowledge is not required to master the techniques described in this tutorial. The tutorial briefly covers the basics of SQL. This tutorial requires a free online registration. |