The Colorado Software Summit has posted four more presentations from the 2008 edition of the conference. The newly available presentations are Subbu Allamaraju's "Pragmatic REST" and "RESTful Web Applications - Fact Versus Fiction" and Anton Bar's "Open Web Operating System" and "Open Web File System."

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Every time I visit the Boston area, I am reminded of how nice it is to have easy access to GPS navigation. GPS often enables me to get places faster and with more confidence than I would otherwise have. However, use of GPS is not without its issues. First, the GPS directions are not always the best directions and are sometimes even downright wrong.

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In theory, the first day of Spring was March 21 in the Northern Hemisphere. In practice, however, the Denver area today is seeing more winter-like weather than we've seen this past winter.

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Are you the best software developer you know? If you are, you might want to consider changing the situation.

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The Wall Street Journal story today about IBM possibly acquiring Sun Microsystems ("IBM in Talks to Buy Sun in Bid to Add to Web Heft") is, at the highest level, nothing too new.

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One of my favorite standard Java classes is the Collections class. This is not surprising considering how often I find myself using the Java Collections Framework.

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The NetBeans IDE provides JUnit integration that can be very handy when writing and running JUnit-based unit tests. However, I like to be able to do anything I might do often outside of the IDE as well as from within the IDE.

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I think that most experienced Java developers are aware of many of the many characteristics of the Java String that make it a little different than other objects. One particular nuance of the Java String that people new to Java sometimes don't fully appreciate is that a literal String is already a String object.

When first learning Java it is really easy to write a String assignment like this:

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There are times when it is useful to include images and other non-source files in the documentation generated with Javadoc.

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Colorado Software Summit 2009 has been announced (25-30 October 2009) and the main web site has been redesigned as part of this announcement. The two keynote presentations from last year's edition, Colorado Software Summit 2008, have also been made available from this main page.

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An idea of the types of presentations that will be available at this year's edition of JavaOne (2009) is starting to form with notices going up all over the blogosphere about presentations being accepted or rejected. I have been curious if JavaFX would be the dominant topic for a third straight year.

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In a previous blog posting, I listed some "everyday problems" Java developers will often face and included some ideas and links related to addressing these issues. One of the focal points of that post was Java classpath issues.

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Although it is difficult to measure and quantify, most of us have heard and do believe that flexibility is an important part of software development. There are numerous advantages gained from software that is designed and implemented to be flexible and adaptive. However, I think it is worth asking, "Can we have too much of a good thing?"

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Project Coin is the name of the OpenJDK work covering small language changes for Java SE 7. The current Java.net poll question asks which of the proposed Project Coin features is most interesting.

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