Jason W. Purdy
7 articles
Languages
Managing with Agility
Does Agile pay off? Well, I would say so ... to the tune of $1 Billion for one particular
case. When Nortel initially approached
CoreTek for...
Guides
Project Management: Curl Breaks Away
Recently, my editor asked me if I had ever heard about Curl and provided me some links to the technology. I had to...
.NET
Diary of a Developer: To Script or Not to Script
A majority of the e-mails I receive ask the question "What should I focus on, technology-wise, to learn/master?" This is a very good question,...
Guides
Diary of a Web Developer: Fork in the Road
My editor told me I might receive some e-mails in response to my previous column, but I don't think either of us expected that...
Perl
Diary of a Developer: Send Me Your Questions
Introduction
The last piece of Web development I did before traversing the wild road of upper management was back in 1997, building Java UI components...
Java
Write once, run anywhere?
One of the main benefits of using Java is that the language is cross-platform, meaning that you can run its bytecode on...
Java
Internationalizing dates for your Java app
The life of a Java programmer: after you write and deploy your app, you get an e-mail, written in French. After translation, it...