A journey ‘Back to Smalltalk’

I read a blog post about a developers journey from Smalltalk to PHP to Ruby and back with probably a bunch of other stuff mixed in between. In this post, the author puts into words many of the things I have wondered about for the last several months. I am by no means a Ruby or Ruby-on-Rails expert, but I have messed with it enough. I do like it. Its nice and clean, simple to use, and easy to get up and running quickly.

I remember my transition from Smalltalk to Java. When I had somewhat mastered Smalltalk Java started to become the big thing. For some reason I felt the need to move to Java.

Another trackback test

This is another trackback test for http://mikewitters.com/?p=22 .  In this one I’m explicitly adding the trackback in the trackback section.

Testing trackback

This is me testing trackback at http://mikewitters.com/?p=22 .  We’ll see if it works.

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JavaFX – My first impressions

Sun introduced JavaFX today at JavaOne in San Francisco. Basically (from the web perspective), JavaFX is Sun’s attempt at a Rich Internet Application (RIA) framework. Like MS Silverlight, Adobe Flex, and the many AJAX frameworks, JavaFX promises to make creating beautiful and user friendly web applications easier. I spent a couple of hours this evening messing with the OpenJFX tutorial and looking through the reference. Here are my first impressions.

A foolproof way to end bank account phishing? Close, but not quite.

Slashdot linked to an interesting story today about a possible foolproof way to end bank account phishing. I think its a step in the right direction, but I don’t think it would be a sure fire way to prevent them.

‘Architects’ in agile development

I read a good blog post that basically tries to re-define the common ‘Architect’ role for agile development methodologies. I do agree with his premise, but have a few extra qualifiers I would throw into his statements.

My first attempt at a ‘Web 2.0′ look

If you’re one of the 142 people who have visited my site since its inception last month then you’ve probably noticed that I have changed the theme often. I was trying to find what would fit the times and what I liked at the same time. I spent at least 4 hours on each one that I tried – making a logo, customizing the colors, fonts, etc. This is my latest attempt, and for now I’m happy with it. I went with the web 2.0 look which from what I understand is bright colors, big fonts, big graphics (just my RSS buttons), but nothing too flashy.