Here it is, the spookiest night of the year and the prospect of another election day debacle is about as frightening a prospect as any. And why shouldn’t we be scared? What’s really changed in the past 8 years in regards to the process of voting? In 2000, the death of the chad pappy, the [...]

It appears that the limitations of Grails object relational mapping (GORM) – only allowing connections to a single datasource – has been resolved with a new plugin from Burt Beckwith. This feature which allows application architects to design systems that can shard data across federated databases has been around for awhile in ActiveRecord – [...]

Flash 1… 2… 3… 4… 5… MX… MX 2004… 8… 9… … … and now? Just “10″. nice and easy.
The latest and greatest from Adobe includes support for native 3D (bring on more carousel views), “inverse kinematics“, jointed assets that react intelligently to each other when animated (see PrayStation circa ‘99?). Additionally, they promise advanced [...]

Our good friend and former colleague Greg Brown has just recently launched the first official 1.0 release of the open source Pivot Toolkit. The Pivot Toolkit provides Java developers a great new way to build applications with rich user interfaces that can be easily deployed both to web users and to desktop users. [...]