Peter Loats: Software Engineering

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Sat, 01 Mar 2003 02:23:59 GMT

Dan Gilmor points to a great interview with Marc Canter (of Macromedia fame) [Dan Gillmor's eJournal]

Mon, 10 Feb 2003 20:56:39 GMT

I keep hammering this weblog about Macromedia's products because I believe that they will be an important component in more and more corporate applications.

Mon, 10 Feb 2003 18:30:40 GMT

Borland models for Java.

Unit Testing for Objective-C

Thu, 12 Sep 2002 14:23:46 GMT

Java has JUnit for test first development and Objective-C has OCUnit. This article at Stepwise is

Fri, 30 Aug 2002 13:45:18 GMT

ACLs don't scale, accountability does.

Tue, 06 Aug 2002 01:07:44 GMT

A statement is not a conversation (XML.org)

But then an interesting thing happened.

Thu, 11 Jul 2002 13:42:08 GMT

How Long Until The Library Of Congress Fits On Your Keychain?.

Thu, 11 Jul 2002 02:42:11 GMT

A Test::MockObject Illustrated Example.

Wed, 05 Jun 2002 03:12:14 GMT

Boxes & Arrows: Opening Pandora's Box: Special Deliverable #1.

What server blades should REALLY be...

Mon, 03 Jun 2002 13:26:06 GMT

Larry Boucher makes some choice comments about a the very geeky topic of data blades.

Fri, 31 May 2002 19:57:58 GMT

Fisheye Lense Component
How cool is this? A great component from Samel Wan demonstrating the advanced interface work that can be done with Flash - lots of great background reading a

Maybe we need to rethink biometrics as a panacea

Thu, 16 May 2002 18:30:02 GMT

Gummi bears defeat fingerprint sensors.

Thu, 16 May 2002 12:45:32 GMT

Sketching on napkins.

Wed, 15 May 2002 21:22:37 GMT

Out with the old, in with the new.

Tue, 14 May 2002 16:04:38 GMT

JRun 4 released - includes Flash Remoting
Good news for those who want to use Java for server side development - Flash remoting is built in and there's a whole host of

Tue, 14 May 2002 14:43:22 GMT

Avoiding the trap of developing in a bubble.

Fri, 10 May 2002 13:03:45 GMT

Java Front End for Syndic8.

Fun With Your Zip Program: Sort Through Texts, and More

Tue, 30 Apr 2002 12:39:46 GMT

The idea of using ZIP compression as a discriminator and measure is interesting.

Tue, 30 Apr 2002 02:42:24 GMT

Macromedia MX: Components and Web Services by Jeremy Allaire; re: ColdFusion, Dreamweaver, Macromedia Flash.

The Google API is a two-way street

Tue, 30 Apr 2002 02:32:27 GMT

Column | The Google API is a two-way street.

Analysis | .NET for the enterprise

Tue, 30 Apr 2002 02:29:40 GMT

Whether or not Microsoft's .NET and Web services initiatives find near-term traction in the enterprise, the elements of the strategy -- componentization, access to the middle tier, XML representation of business data and protocols -- are universal and wil

Nouns vs. Verbs

Tue, 30 Apr 2002 02:22:53 GMT

Sjoerd offers another view of REST vs RPC.

Where’s Jini?

Sun, 28 Apr 2002 16:01:16 GMT

Developer.com: “Three years ago, Jini was touted as the sure path to ubiquitous computing.

Sun, 28 Apr 2002 15:32:15 GMT

Flash XML-RPC Library
A nice implementation of XML-RPC in Flash (and some decent documentation) from Pedro Ornelas [Flash Blog]

Flash + Pocket PC + GPS

Sun, 28 Apr 2002 15:31:14 GMT

= location based rich media content - Phillip Torrone is hacking together the future of flash on mobile devices and it's got some great potential.