The Object-Oriented Thought Process Book Review (January 15, 2012)

By Mike Hubbartt, © Copyright 2012, All Rights Reserved. Title: The Object-Oriented Thought Process Author: Matt Weisfeld Edition: 1st (2000) ISBN: 0-672-31853-9 Publisher: SAMS Publishing Price: $29.99 Length: 226 pages (9 chapters, 2 appendices) This book, according to the author, is ‘an introduction to fundamental O-O concepts’. It is not a book aimed at people already [...]

Configure Eclipse IDE for Spring Development (January 7, 2012)

By Mike Hubbartt, © Copyright 2012, All Rights Reserved. Spring is a nice Java framework that simplifies J2E tasks, and is in wide use in many real-world business development environments. If you don’t know it and want to do dynamic web development with Java, this is a good time to learn it. You need a couple [...]

Signup for a Remote Source Code Repository (July 2, 2011)

By Mike Hubbartt, © Copyright 2011, All Rights Reserved. In the old days, developers used file system directories with customer naming conventions to organize their code and support files. This was a problem if the files were stored locally and the computer hard drive failed, and it made it difficult to keep code in sync when [...]

Configure Mac IDEs to Access a Remote Git Repository (June 24, 2011)

By Mike Hubbartt, © Copyright 2011, All Rights Reserved. Code repositories are server-based applications to store common code. Our post Configure Mac IDEs to Access a Remote Subversion Repository (June 15, 2011) provides instructions on connecting an IDE to a remote SVN repository (Centralized Version Control System), while our post Configure Mac IDEs to Access a Remote [...]

Configure Mac IDEs to Access a Remote Subversion Repository (June 15, 2011)

By Mike Hubbartt, © Copyright 2011, All Rights Reserved. There are commercial repositories and open source repositories. The commercial repositories charge, usually based on the number of people accessing the repository. Open source repositories can be installed on internal company servers or there are companies that host open source repositories for no or little cost (also [...]

Retrieving Amazon.com Ecommerce Web Services Information (April 22, 2011)

By Mike Hubbartt, © Copyright 2011, All Rights Reserved. I wanted to write a program to access Amazon’s web services information and this was the process I followed. Part 1: Get setup with Amazon AWS Create a new blank document called AWS Keys with your favorite word processor. Enter the following 2 rows to the [...]

Develop Ruby Code with Eclipse (April 17, 2011)

By Mike Hubbartt, Copyright 2011, All Rights Reserved. This brief tutorial is meant to help people get started writing their first Ruby program using the Eclipse IDE. Step 1: See if Ruby is already installed. Ruby does ship with some operating systems, however it is available for multiple operating systems here. To verify it is [...]

Adobe Announces Release of Photoshop CS5 SDK (April 11, 2011)

By Mike Hubbartt, © Copyright 2011, All Rights Reserved. I had a couple of press releases from Adobe today, and was very happy to see they are releasing an SDK (Software Development Kit) for Photoshop CS5. I appreciate when product vendors give developers a way to interface with their products, which isn’t new, but it doesn’t [...]

Develop PHP Code with Eclipse and MAMP (January 21, 2012)

By Mike Hubbartt, © Copyright 2011, All Rights Reserved. I like using MAMP (Mac Apache MySQL PHP) to develop server-based code when not connected to a test server, and one of my classes in school had several projects where we use PHP and MySQL, so this short piece is on the basics of configuring and using [...]

Getting Started with Python on Mac OSX (February 18, 2011)

By Mike Hubbartt, © Copyright 2011, All Rights Reserved. Python is a good programming language for web developers, and I enjoyed my first experience with it. Our web development class was given a simple python web server and some HTML files and told to extend both to render images. Since I had not used it, I [...]