Re: [jug-discussion] Upcoming meetings

2009-07-30 Thread Todd Ellermann
You had me at Grails + JSON, but lost me at GWT. BTW I think showing the scars will be sufficient. ;) If its not too much of a spoiler, can I ask what drove the GWT decision? -T *** Todd R. Ellermann VP of Engineering

Re: [jug-discussion] Hudson?

2009-05-20 Thread Todd Ellermann
-discussion@tucson-jug.org Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 5:15:52 PM Subject: Re: [jug-discussion] Hudson? On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Todd Ellermann todde...@yahoo.com wrote: After spending a week fighting with cruisecontrol I switched to hudson and haven't looked back. Just to be clear, you mean

Re: [jug-discussion] mental block - active vs. passive

2009-01-19 Thread Todd Ellermann
Sounds to me like your on the right track. A rod or cone to my mind is not much different than a swing button waiting for an ActionPerformed. You would then register your rods and cones as sensorEventListenters. or whatever you are hooking them to. in some cases you might have a rod and a cone

Re: [jug-discussion] Java is dead... Here we go again....

2008-12-10 Thread Todd Ellermann
PHP developers are Cool and happy too but I am not accusing them of having made a good engineering decision. Attempting to divert the ruby/groovy/java war to pick on the kid in the corner who is not here to defend himself. If you really want to explore some of the differences in these

Re: [jug-discussion] JRuby vs. Groovy (was: Any News on the Holiday Party?)

2008-12-09 Thread Todd Ellermann
(rubygems and github), and you cannot take advantage of this with Groovy. Why not be able to choose from the best of both worlds? Java is dead, long live the JVM. JRuby FTW in the enterprise. -- Chad On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Todd Ellermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One more side note

Re: [jug-discussion] Any News on the Holiday Party?

2008-12-08 Thread Todd Ellermann
I would encourage you to consider Groovy, which runs on the Java Virtual Machine, and interoperates with Java seamlessly. I would only consider C++ if I were doing something that had requirements for performance that required optimization down to the hardware level of machine I was going to run

Re: [jug-discussion] Any News on the Holiday Party?

2008-12-08 Thread Todd Ellermann
IMHO In my experience if you come from C or C++, and Java then groovy is a more natural transition. If you have Perl experience then Ruby is a more natural transition. -T *** Todd R. Ellermann VP of Engineering VirtualTourist.com

Re: [jug-discussion] Professional Java Server Programming

2007-09-04 Thread Todd Ellermann
Look at Groovy and grails. JSP is old school :) my .02Cents *** Todd R. Ellermann Chairman PHXJUG.org Acting CTO HWHC, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 602-738-6187 cell

[jug-discussion] Go back to school!

2007-08-24 Thread Todd Ellermann
Oh but a critical two years it is! I can only speak for the last seven years that I have been hiring programmers and I can say that occasionally I have dropped someone from a pool of candidates for senior and architect positions if they had no real 4 year degree. Often I have hired and worked

Re: [jug-discussion] tasks that developers do when learning a new language?

2007-04-21 Thread Todd Ellermann
We have been doing a bunch of research with different languages, and things that come up: How to talk to a database? Conditionals Loops how to package stuff (CPAN for perl, Jar's for Java, Gem's for Ruby) Concatenation Strings especially Variable Declaration Scope Object Definition and

Re: [jug-discussion] looking for a thread/game guru

2006-12-01 Thread Todd Ellermann
Ran into some similar problems the first time I wrote a game. JInvaders :) The easiest thing I can suggest is have your game loop in the main thread and have a token of control handed from player to player. Have the player be either a user or a computer, but give each one of them their own

RE: [jug-discussion] OT: Google and Yahoo

2006-09-20 Thread Todd Ellermann
Nick, Are we really supposed to believe that a new gmail account can't subscribe to the Tjug mailing list?. that's some strong koolaid they are serving in the cafe :p -Todd *** Todd R. Ellermann President PHXJUG.org [EMAIL

Re: [jug-discussion] MS Access / Filemaker like front-end for MySQL/Oracle?

2006-07-27 Thread Todd Ellermann
MS Access will allow you to attach to any ODBC datasource including Oracle and do some really fun stuff. Toad is the other product I always think of when talking about Oracle made easy. -Todd You won't mind me replying to your non-java question, because (even though I was born in Tucson) I live

Re: [jug-discussion] on April 1st

2006-04-01 Thread Todd Ellermann
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Re: [jug-discussion] new embedded sql database

2006-03-24 Thread Todd Ellermann
Derby is pretty easy to get setup and run embeded. H2 (been reading this afternoon.) Looks like it has a better install and GUI app. The IJ command line tool in Derby works great once you get it up and running, but I am sorry to say that it was a bit of a pain some of this was a new box

Re: [jug-discussion] Google director of Info Systems speaking at UA

2006-01-26 Thread Todd Ellermann
Ever so slightly off topic, but for a fellow Java guy in PHoenix, can anyone recommend a good wedding caterer down in Tucson? Getting married back home in March. Warner you find a replacement yet? -Todd Please respond off line. Todd R. Ellermann President PHXJUG.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [jug-discussion] MSoft + Jboss?

2005-09-29 Thread Todd Ellermann
This occured for me like the un-announcement Uhhh Doesn't JBoss run on Java? Doesn't Java Run Anywhere? -Todd Todd R. Ellermann President PHXJUG.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 602-738-6187 __ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005

RE: [jug-discussion] Why Jython, or Jelly, or Groovy, or Beanshell or ... instead of perl, or sh script?

2005-09-29 Thread Todd Ellermann
Hate to actually do Microsofts job here, but when/if longhorn comes out it will actually have FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER a real scripting environment. I think it is currently code named monad. I saw a demo of it in Redmond. The cool things you could do with it if Office was installed include.

RE: [jug-discussion] Feedback for this WhitePaper

2005-09-19 Thread Todd Ellermann
I rarely find myself as an advocate of Fowler's writing, but this was eye opening and much closer to what I was looking for when I read Rick's paper. http://martinfowler.com/articles/injection.html For interesting discussion, I do find myself solidly back in the camp of Spring is a fad. It

[jug-discussion] Speaker next week

2004-11-30 Thread Todd Ellermann
Hey fellow tucsonians The PHXJUG has a sponsor for next wednesday, but the sponsor has no speaker. Any of you author types from down there want to come speak about something interesting? Promote your book etc... Can commit to covering some travel costs for the right presentation. ;)

[jug-discussion] BEA User Group

2004-05-11 Thread Todd Ellermann
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Re: [jug-discussion] BEA User Group

2004-05-11 Thread Todd Ellermann
Sorry, For those of you interested in the BEA User Group forming in phoenix, Vince is involved in that. Unfortunately, I wasn't paying attention to what got filled in when I hit reply-to. Hope things are going well down there in Tucson. -Todd

Re: [jug-discussion] C# and Java Comparison?

2004-02-25 Thread Todd Ellermann
We did this presentation recently up here at the PHX jug and it was really a great discussion. The gist was that the two technologies or languages when compared are VERY similar. The core advantages of .NET, being it's integrated nature to the MS platform. The core disadvantages of .NET being

Re: [jug-discussion] Prevayler

2004-02-20 Thread Todd Ellermann
Rolled our own Tx Management (pretty simple transaction queue). As for the XML thing. the problem can be solved by handling the serialization manually and overriding the serial ID's etc... to pick up when an old form of the object is being read in. The xml thing would have given us a fill in

RE: [jug-discussion] Prevayler

2004-02-20 Thread Todd Ellermann
Group of people to join me for dinner over at el corral or pinnacle peak. (Don't have to pay for my meal, just give me an excuse to go and speak propeller ;) FYI I am a native Tucsonian (like to keep my eye out on what is going on in the old pueblo.) -Todd __

Re: [jug-discussion] Meeting on 2/10?

2004-02-09 Thread Todd Ellermann
Yes, You'll get the invite today. -T __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For