UML in a nutshell

I found a very useful introduction to UML, while surfing the net. It gives a great introduction into UML from a developer's perspective, by presenting the important highlights. I find it rather useful as a resource, and I'm going to use it when I quickly need to look up some information.

Javapedia

Javapedia is a free online encyclopedia, like wikipedia, where you can find answers to Java related issues. A lot of articles of various topics are already available, but there are still parts that need to be covered.

Praxissemester

Nachdem ich nun erfolgreich die letzten Klausuren gemeistert habe, geht es am Dienstag ins 2 Praxissemester. Gleichzeitig ist dies mein 8. Studiensemester, und somit das letzte der Regelstudienzeit.

JBoss Remoting

With JBoss World 2005 a week away, JBoss has introduced a new remoting framework. Before you say "another one?" John Mazzitelli hopes you'll take a look at JBoss Remoting, which rids you of RMI-style skeletons and stubs, and offers flexibility and extensibility on both the client and server sides.

rating comment: JBoss remoting seems to be very interesting, and so is this article. It briefly covers the most important issues of JBoss Remoting and gives a pragmatic introduction to JBoss Remoting. At some point, I think the article should be more detailed, but overall it's quite okay.

Google goes Hollywood

Im US-Index von Google kann man ab sofort gezielt nach Kino- und Filmdaten suchen, um etwa Informationen zu einem bestimmten Regisseur, Schauspieler oder Filmtitel zu erhalten. Auch die Suche nach den Startzeiten von in der Nähe befindlichen Kinos ist möglich.

Ich hoffe nur, dass die ganzen gadgets von Google auch bald für die deutsche Suche erscheinen!

The next big thing

Robert Martin hopes that there is no Next Big Thing. Modular programming, structured programming, object-oriented programming, agile programming - all things of the past. Looking forward, Bob writes that he hopes "the next big thing is the big thing that we've needed for the last thirty years and haven't had the guts to actually say. I hope the next big thing is professionalism. Perhaps a better word would be Craftsmanship."

Very nifty article about the software industry, with a couple of very accurate conclusions!

Scalability

It's difficult, maybe impossible, to know up front how much or in what ways your application will need to scale. But by decoupling parts of the application, you can at least ensure that the scaling process can be kept modular. Amir Shevat shows how some sharable pieces of the MantaRay messaging system can allow your app to grow beyond one box.

rating comment: This article presents an interesting approach of designing a scalable application. It shows, that your application is fully scalable, when seperating it into modules and providing mediators for communication between these modules. Furthermore it gives a brief overview of how the open source project MantaRay addresses this problem.