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Most of us spend more time with our mobile phones than with our spouses or children. Ludicrous? Think about it. Your phone is the first thing you may interact with when you wake up in the morning and the last thing you touch at night. You carry it around with you all day long, checking it frequently for important messages. When work is done, you probably have some fun with your phone playing games or posting on Facebook, getting headlines… Read More

Java EE is not one single specification, but rather a collection of many enterprise oriented specifications.  In fact, the next version of Java EE (7) is comprised of 14 Java Specification Requests (JSRs), and 9 Maintenance Releases (MRs).  On April 29th, the last of the remaining specifications were approved by the Java Community Process’s Executive Committee.  This means Java EE 7 is on its way! No release dates have been set yet, however the Oracle blog states that a new implementation… Read More

It is very common to need a WYSIWYG HTML editor on your website.  I can think of a few examples off the top of my head.  Discussion forums such as MSDN and stackoverflow.com have an HTML editor when you submit or reply to a post.  Evernote also has an HTML editor for creating/editing notes.  There are countless other examples.  The point is, you may need one at some point in the lifecycle of your website. TinyMCE is a nice choice…I’ll… Read More

Most of us were riveted by events in Boston recently. I’m referring, of course, to the deadly blasts at the Boston Marathon, which were followed a few days later by the all-consuming man hunt that left one of the suspects dead and the other in custody. I especially appreciated seeing so many people in Watertown, Massachusetts – the area that had been locked down the entire day of the successful man hunt – cheer as triumph law enforcement officers drove… Read More

Mother’s Day is Sunday, May 12. If your Mom is even  half as great as mine, I hope you remember to tell her “thank you!” If you’ve  read my book, Building a Winning Business, you may recall that I am a  passionate believer in saying thank you. And in the case of mothers, we guys  have more to be grateful for than we even realized. A fascinating little item in this month’s issue of The Atlantic describes some surprising results… Read More

In all applications, there are those exceptions, those bugs that no one expected.  Try as we might  to think of every conceivable error, exception, or issue, we developers miss some things.  When this happens on a device “out in the wild” – meaning on a device in the hands of the mobile users – we often don’t know it happened, let alone be able to better deal with the problem in the future. Catching the Unexpected – using the UncaughtExceptionHandler… Read More

This is the last post in my series on Fighting a Government Threat. My 8th lesson, Don’t assume that your counterpart thinks the way you do or is influenced by the same consideration, is underscored in the Harvard Business Review case study on this topic…. Read More

SignalR is a new technology from Microsoft to make adding real-time web functionality to an ASP.NET OR MVC 4 application easy.  What is real-time web functionality?  Good question…simply put, it allows the server to push content to connected clients without any client request.  The content may be initiated by one of the clients or the server itself.  This article will focus on server-initiated content.  Read more from the SignalR experts here. When might a programmer use SignalR?  Here are some… Read More