We’ve seen effective use of dashboards with various applications. Dashboard shows the summary of the entire system operations in just one page. In addition, they make your application look cool and more interactive with use of graphs and charts. So now its your turn to create a dashboard for your killer app, here are some tips to make it more effective.

While there are a number of resources on the net talking about converting images to tiff in Java using JAI, I wasn’t able to come across one that works on a Mac. JAI is a separate download from the JDK and unfortunately, there are no mac version of JAI that can be downloaded from the Sun site. Upon reviewing the jar files included in OSX, I found…

I’m a Spring fan, but I decided not to use Spring in our recent project because I don’t want bulky jar files in our application but I wanted to have spring-like configuration. So, I’ve decided to write my own dependency injection code in less than 50 lines of code!! To simplify dependency injection, I’ve taken out most of the advanced configuration features and…

Last October, 21, 2008, ideyatech celebrated its Anniversary at the Texas Roadhouse Grill at El Pueblo Real de Manila, Pasig City. The celebration was done in conjunction with the company’s 4th Quarter General Assembly. Ideyatech has noticeably grown in size, we are now 27 staff strong from 7 last year. Included are the second batch of J2EE trainees.

Outsourcing helps your business by allowing it to focus its energies and resources on its core strengths. However, the success of outsourcing depends on a lot of factors, the top of which comes from you, the party that decides on whether outsourcing will actually help you achieve your business goals. Success factors involved in outsourcing?

Why I Choose Ivy? The main thing I like about Ivy is its simplicity. You can use Ivy with only ant installed on your system (and of course, java). This means that you don’t need to download any Ivy related libraries or when using eclipse, no plug-in is needed. You can run everything using ant, from installing the ivy library to downloading the dependencies.

We’ve been using Continuum for quite some time now. While Continuum does seem to do a good job managing our builds, its limited support for JUnit Test reports made us evaluate an alternative, Hudson. Hudson is the new guy on the block, aside from cool icons and more intuitive interface, this tool seems to be quite competitive and feature-packed.

As recommended by Yahoo on YSlow - tip #1: Make fewer HTTP request and tip #10: Minify javascript- we aim to implement these tips on all our projects with minimal head-ache. While these recommendations are truly useful, implementing them can be quite tedious and challenging. Consider having to maintain multiple min versions of the javascript and…