1. Liferay & Velocity: Easy Theming for your portal

2. Visual Inheritance and  ASP.NET Web Forms

3. Liferay & ICEFaces: I love this combination

4. Free ASP.NET MVC eBook Tutorial  More

There are a lot of web based requirements management tools popping up on the landscape these days.  Some are more robust than others. Does your business really need a large, pricey application like Rational Tools? Could a smaller, functional, flexible, cost efficient web application work just as well for your business?  More

Many a merger and/or acquisition are justified by the illustrious (and often illusive) “synergies,” but less than 15% of these synergies ever come to fruition – why?  Why are we so good at identifying companies that will benefit from a merger, and then valuing synergies, but we are unable to execute and capitalize this value once the deal has been inked? More

Yesterday, on NPR’s All Things Considered radio program, Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr suggested that Major Nidal Hasan had an accomplice in his horrific shooting spree – the Internet.  The report was probably the most ridiculous things I’ve heard on the radio, and especially egregious coming from NPR, a source from which I expect better.  Schorr’s editorial seems to be both fear mongering and advocating censorship of the Web.  Both of which are irresponsible and dangerous.  The original article and broadcast can be found here. More

The hardest part of being a developer is staying on top of the technology itself.  Since we're all supposed to maximize our time doing productive work, that naturally leads to the conclusion that we should minimize our time spent surfing the Web searching for technology news. I'm curious to hear what sites, blogs, or feeds people are reading to get their daily dose in the least time possible?   More

For those who love linux but sometimes encounter themselves with an error trying to activate bridge networking in VirtualBox I want to give you what I found with 3.x version.  More

Next in the series of IPhone application development.  First was graphical implementation, now distributed networking. More

INTRODUCING:
Carlos Martinez as my GUEST BLOGER.
Carlos is a Technical Team Lead with Oshyn and a software expert in OOD with .Net and Java.
Carlos is a multi-faceted subject matter expert in CMS, SOA, and application development. More

I've been reading a lot of articles lately (at Boxes and Arrows and ia play) about the value of prototyping and debates over whether prototyping is more valuable when devoid of design, such as hand-sketching, or when it looks as close to the final product as possible.  I don't have a strong horse in that particular race, save to say that I agree with arguments that high-fidelity prototyping opens you up to risking a lot of re-work.  If you're ready to move to HTML you might as well create HTML you can use in the final product.  However it got me thinking… More