I previously blogged on the publication of my article JEE and Flex: A Compelling Combination, Part 1 on JavaWorld.

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My article Java EE and Flex: A Compelling Combination, Part 1 was published on JavaWorld today.

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There have been some interesting articles and posts online recently discussing the current global economic situation and the effects of this on the software development industry. Many of these posts and articles outline steps developers can take to raise their value in their current organization or to make themselves more appealing to a potential new employer or client.

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I have always appreciated articles and blogs that challenge the groupthink that can so easily pervade our industry. Even if I don't agree with everything stated, I believe that it is good to have my opinions challenged. I don't care for whining or negative comments without any constructive feedback or useful alternatives, but I do like contrarian points of view that are well articulated and challenge truly bad ideas that get easily adopted.

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As I've been putting a paper together for my Rocky Mountain Oracle Users Group (RMOUG) Training Days 2009 presentation REST from Web Services Frustrations, I have been wanting a very simple HTTP client and a very simple HTTP server to use to demonstrate both sides of using a REST-based web service.

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In this blog posting, I will demonstrate using BlazeDS for object remoting between a Flex client and a Java EE-based server.

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Anthony Shorten's recent blog post Invaluable Technical Resources outlines three key categories of useful resources for developers wishing to solve a particular problem or for developers wanting to increase their knowledge. In this blog post, I'm going to list some of my favorite resources for both types of knowledge (solving a problem and learning something new).

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The "Best of 2008" articles and blog postings are coming out every day now. With tomorrow being the final day of 2008, it seems like a good time to begin collecting some of these "Best of 2008" articles and blog entries here. Because more relevant articles or blog entries with "Best of 2008" are sure to come out today and tomorrow and possibly even early in 2009, I plan to update this posting at least a few times with new entries.

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I have blogged previously on the importance of confidence as a characteristic of a successful software developer. Another important characteristic that I have found to be indicative of a good software developer is passion.

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In a recent blog post, I postulated that many individuals who are most vehemently in support of specific new features for the Java programming language probably owe at least a portion of this opinion to their experience with that feature in a different programming language.

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At about this time last year, I posted my personal perspective on the top ten software development happenings of 2007. This blog post will be a similar effort for the year 2008. I make no effort to highlight the overall most important happenings of 2008 in the software development world, but instead highlight the software development happenings of 2008 that have been most significant for me so far.

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In this blog post, I will list and briefly describe some of the characteristics that I have observed to be common among many of my favorite technical blogs. I try to incorporate these ideas into my own blogging, but being aware of these advantageous characteristics does not always translate to me following them as well as I would like.

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There are times when it is helpful to see the contents of a generated SWF to better understand what is being included in it. There are several tools that can help with this. I'll briefly summarize some of them here and provide a little additional detail on my preferred tool: Nemo 440.

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It appears that one of the most popular themes in Java development in 2008 has been the Java Persistence API (JPA).

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I have blogged before about some of the interesting observations from previous Java.net polls.

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