Yesterday (21 October 2008) was the second day of presentations at Colorado Software Summit and I learned quite a few new things as well as solidifying my understanding of many more topics.

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Today (Wednesday, 22 October 2008) is actually the third day of presentations at Colorado Software Summit (Monday was the first day), but I have been too busy tweaking slides and examples for my own presentations and listening and learning at other presentations to take the time to write even a short summary blog on the Colorado Software Summit.

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Although JConsole and VisualVM offer freely available and highly useful JMX clients, there are some features of jManage that make it worth using in conjunction with these other JMX clients.

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Several colleagues I work with have asked me about the Colorado Software Summit after hearing my enthusiasm regarding attending it (and presenting at it) next week. I realized that because they are not aware of these advantages of this conference, others probably are not aware either. This blog entry is my attempt at explaining some of the things that I believe makes Colorado Software Summit unique and exciting.

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While some portions of forthcoming Java SE 7 still appear to be controversial, the JMX 2 portion (JSR-255) of Java SE 7 seems to be solidifying nicely.

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I have recently been asked by several different people in several different situations about Java serialization, about the Serializable interface, about serialVersionUID, and about how to generate a serialVersionUID.

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When I am working with developers new to Java, I often forget to tell them about the little tools that make Java development much more efficient. These are the types of tools that aren't necessarily used everyday, but are very valuable when the appropriate need arises. I remember to tell them about these tools when they run into a perplexing problem and I am helping them resolve the problem and use these tools almost without thinking about them.

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I feel a little disappointment when I occasionally hear fellow Java developers make statements like this: "Java 6 doesn't really provide all that much." My experience with Java SE 6 has been very different and I find myself missing many of its features when I must use an earlier version of Java.

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One of the things that I most liked about ActionScript when I first began to use it was how easy it was to pick up after using Java for several years.

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I have observed that many lessons from software development experience can be applied to management of software development teams and that the opposite is also true -- many lessons from management of software development teams can be applied in hands-on software development. In this blog entry, I want to examine how lessons learned from software performance monitoring can be applied to appropriate monitoring of software development progress.

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The Detailed Daily Summary for the Colorado Software Summit 2008 has been posted. When I have attended this conference in the past, I have always enjoyed mapping out which sessions I plan to attend.

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JDK 1.4 introduced so many new features to the Java landscape that it was easy to focus on a few at the expense of others.

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There are many examples in software development of open source products introducing useful concepts and approaches that are later standardized. It is often the case that the creative developers behind the most successful open source products can deliver innovative features much quicker than a standards committee could ever hope to do. Standards are, by their nature, more difficult to create because they require consensus of so many different organizations and people with different agendas and ideas of what is best.

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I have blogged several times recently on different components in the OpenLaszlo Incubator.

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I have blogged previously on components from the OpenLaszlo Incubator, including OpenLaszlo ToolTips (tooltips) and From the OpenLaszlo Incubator

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