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Thursday January 17, 2008

The year of the snake

(Warning: This blog is a personal diary... not a magazine...)
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Seems without the fanfare and annonyance of some other all-hat-no-cowboy, fanboy langauge communities who constantly tout their wares, Python has soared in popularity.

See this

http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/09/1819221

"The TIOBE Programming Community Index has declared Python as the Programming Language of 2007 due to a 58% surge in its popularity rating during the year, making it now the sixth most popular programming language and finally surpassing Perl..."

Long live the snake. Dear Obie, notice the down arrow in red for Ruby.

--Rick Hightower
Email: rhightower AT arc DASH mind DOT com

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Run more. Lift more. Play more. Play hard. Procrastinate less. Don't waste time. Time is short. Be bold. Be nice. [image]

"I'm personally looking forward to having my ideas used and improved on by others." --Paul Penfield, Jr (Engineer, MIT)

Crank Crud framework (CRUD framework, Master detail framework, Annotation driven validaiton, Criteria DSL API, GenericDAOs, Idiomatic GUI development with JPA and JSF) Best JSF Tutorial part 1 (Intro) Best JSF Tutorial part 2 (Lifecycle) Best JSF Tutorial part 3 (Conversion and Validation) Best JSF Tutorial part 4 (JSF Components)

Facelets tutorial Advanced Facelets Article Spring for development managers Spring is good(2005) JSF is good (2004). "My last project that I finished was JSF + Spring + Hibernate on Tomcat 5 similar to AppFuse foundation, but using JSF.... I really dig JSF. I found it a lot more productive than Struts. I was amazed how fast I could "crank" things out. (Thus the name of the crank project)"

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Jan 17 2008, 10:00:13 AM MST Permalink

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Rick's bio

Rick Hightower serves as chief technology officer for ArcMind Inc., a training and consulting firm focusing on JEE, Spring, JPA and JSF. He is coauthor of the popular book Java Tools for Extreme Programming, about applying extreme programming to J2EE development, as well as co-author of Professional Struts and Struts Live (which can be downloaded from TSS). Rick, a frequent IBM developerWorks contributor, was an early advocate of JSF, Spring and Hibernate and wrote a series of articles for IBM developerWorks to dispel common JSF FUD. In addition to consulting and programming daily, Rick has written several courses on Ajax, JSF, Struts, Spring, Spring MVC, JPA and more. Rick is also the founding developer on the Crank project which is an JSF/Facelets, Ajax, CRUD framework for idiomatically developing GUIs. Rick has 26 software development certifications, 17 years development experience and has been director of development at three different software development firms as well as CTO of two different consulting/training companies before founding ArcMind Inc. in 2004.

Links of note

Crank Crud framework (CRUD framework, Master detail framework, Annotation driven validaiton, Criteria DSL API, GenericDAOs, Idiomatic GUI development with JPA and JSF) , Best JSF Tutorial part 1 (Intro), Best JSF Tutorial part 2 (Lifecycle), Best JSF Tutorial part 3 (Conversion and Validation), Best JSF Tutorial part 4 (JSF Components), Facelets tutorial, Advanced Facelets Article, Spring for development managers, Spring is good(2005), JSF is good (2004). "My last project that I finished was JSF + Spring + Hibernate on Tomcat 5 similar to AppFuse foundation, but using JSF.... I really dig JSF. I found it a lot more productive than Struts. I was amazed how fast I could "crank" things out. (Thus the name of the crank project)"