By Sean Rhody One of the nice things about working for a large consulting company is that I have access to our strategic services department. These are the people who help develop strategies for our clients and research industry trends and conditions. I recently spoke with a few of our folks who are... Jan. 1, 2001 12:00 AM EST Reads: 12,117 |
By Sean Rhody Linux is one of the operating systems I run in my basement in what my wife likes to call the computer lab from hell. That may be because the heat from all the obsolete equipment I collect is reducing my fuel bill and keeping the place toasty and warm. Linux is one of three UNIX variant... Dec. 1, 2000 12:00 AM EST Reads: 10,462 |
By Sean Rhody There's a project team out there that really hates me. I was called in recently to help them get their application together so it could be put into production. When I got there, I determined that the problem was simple - no one understood configuration management. Nov. 1, 2000 12:00 AM EST Reads: 9,959 |
By Sean Rhody Lately I've received a number of e-mails and had conversations regarding J2EE compliance and what it means to the industry. Each conversation or message has a slightly different slant depending on whether the person on the other end is a vendor or a reader or a colleague. What almost e... Oct. 1, 2000 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 10,748 |
By Sean Rhody Years ago, when I was in college, I decided to pursue a minor in music to offset the insanity of getting a degree in physics. I spent a bit of time learning the key signatures, and how to transpose music written in one key to another, usually simpler, key (since I'm not much of a music... Sep. 1, 2000 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 11,116 |
By Sean Rhody 'J2EE is to Java what SQL was to databases.' That's a direct quote from one of my conversations with software vendors during JavaOne. And I tend to agree with the statement. I spent most of the show talking with people regarding their products, their visions and their strategies. It wa... Aug. 1, 2000 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 11,063 |
By Sean Rhody I spent a couple of weeks in Florida recently - ignoring the Internet and hoping the market dip would go away. It felt good not to pull e-mail (all right, I did, but not every day) and it gave me some time to think about the whirlwind pace that's been the routine of the past year. Jul. 1, 2000 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 12,348 |
By Sean Rhody Third time's the charm this time. After two aborted attempts to write this column, I finally was able to put pen to paper (all right, fingers to keyboard). I've been really busy patenting the two through 10 click methods of buying on the Internet. I'll shortly be asking for a royalt... Jun. 1, 2000 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 11,630 |
By Sean Rhody Some trends you just don't see coming, like the return of bell-bottom pants. They are mysterious and leave you wondering what people can possibly be thinking about. Other trends are much more comprehensible and when they start to manifest themselves, you tend to wonder why on earth you... May. 1, 2000 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 11,409 |
By Sean Rhody One of the frustrations of editing a monthly magazine, as opposed to a daily newspaper, is that I seldom get to scoop the rest of the press. With our lead times, breaking news is more or less old by the time you hear it from me. So by now you've heard that Corel has merged with Inprise... Apr. 1, 2000 12:00 AM EST Reads: 10,403 |
By Sean Rhody I may be somewhat unusual, but I've never bought anything at an online auction. I've seen eBay, and one of my friends sold some of his collection of valuable magazines (okay, comic books) on eBay, but I've never gone the whole route and come home with the goods. I've thought about it ... Mar. 1, 2000 12:00 AM EST Reads: 11,009 |
By Sean Rhody Yech. I hate that title as much as you do, but it stuck in my brain and I can't get it out. Things are going on in the industry, and I think this is an appropriate time to cover them. We were at the Java Business Conference in December, covering what appeared to be more of a nonevent t... Feb. 1, 2000 12:00 AM EST Reads: 12,244 |
By Sean Rhody (San Francisco, January 28, 2002) WSJ-IN traveled to the West coast, to cover the Next Generation Web Services Conference sponsored by InfoWorld Media, which was held in San Francisco. Web services was the topic on everyone’s minds at this well-attended show, and the two-day event was ... Jan. 1, 2000 12:00 AM EST Reads: 8,586 Replies: 1 |
By Sean Rhody Being left handed and, therefore, left footed, I once tried to take dancing lessons so I'd look a little less ungainly at family functions like weddings. My father, who's ambidextrous, makes it look easy. Of course, I always forget that when he was growing up, dancing was the main soc... Jan. 1, 2000 12:00 AM EST Reads: 11,090 Replies: 1 |
By Sean Rhody (San Francisco, January 17, 2002) WSJ traveled to the West coast, to cover the Next Generation Web Services Conference sponsored by InfoWorld Media, which was held in San Francisco. Web services was the topic on everyone’s minds at this well-attended show, and the two-day event was pac... Jan. 1, 2000 12:00 AM EST Reads: 8,610 |
By Sean Rhody Without a doubt, 2001 is a rebuilding year. The market is down, especially the tech stocks. The dot-coms that were leading the charge are now the dot bombs that we're all trying to distance ourselves from. So it might be easy to conclude that the Internet revolution is over, and the b... Jan. 1, 2000 12:00 AM EST Reads: 10,206 |
By Sean Rhody Are you nimble enough? That seems to be the new buzzword in the Internet world. Nimble. Nimbleness. Nimbler. My development team is nimbler than yours. Being nimble is the name of the game today. It's not enough to be good developers, we've got to be quick developers. Jan. 1, 2000 12:00 AM EST Reads: 11,279 |
By Sean Rhody It's not often you get to write an end-of-the-millennium column (once every thousand years, last time I checked). I thought that a little reminiscing about the past few years might be in order, followed by a brief look in the crystal ball to see what we have in store for you in the nex... Dec. 1, 1999 12:00 AM EST Reads: 10,810 |
By Sean Rhody Here's an old joke. A guy in a strange town needs to get a haircut. There're only two barbers in the town, but the guy doesn't know either of them. Which one does he pick? The answer is the guy with the worst haircut. Why? Because neither barber can cut his own hair, so the guy with th... Nov. 1, 1999 12:00 AM EST Reads: 10,848 |
By Sean Rhody When I was a teenager, my parents taught me never to argue about sex, politics and religion. Later on I also learned that it's never a good idea to argue with drunks. Now I find myself in the unenviable position of having to step into the middle of a "religious" debate. Oct. 1, 1999 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 9,344 |
By Sean Rhody Sometimes I think no one reads the editorial. Normally I receive maybe no more than fifty comments concerning any editorial. I kid myself that I do a good enough job lining up the content for the magazine that no one has any complaints, and that they post each month's editorial on a wa... Sep. 1, 1999 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 9,801 |
By Sean Rhody All right, I'm ready to admit that I made a slight miscalculation. Not an error, necessarily...just a slight misjudgment when it came to the timing of something. Back in January I made a set of predictions concerning the industry, as I'm wont to do at the beginning of a new year. In th... Aug. 1, 1999 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 11,411 |
By Sean Rhody I recently attended a technical conference and sat in on an interesting discussion concerning moving from traditional testing to testing of object-oriented systems. As many of you know, testing and quality assurance is one of my pet peeves. All too often, groups of otherwise intelligen... Jul. 1, 1999 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 10,911 |
By Sean Rhody Every so often I read something that makes me scratch my head and wonder. Most recently this phenomenon occurred when I read an editorial concerning Java and XML in a Web development magazine. The author wrote that he thought the concept of XML was easy to understand in terms of its us... Jun. 1, 1999 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 12,075 |
By Sean Rhody Web-development of every kind is one focus of Sybase PowerJ 3.0 (see Figure 1). In addition to a complete Java development environment, PowerJ comes with a set of tools that differentiates it from other Java IDEs on the market. These tools are PowerDynamo, a Web site hosting tool that ... Jun. 1, 1999 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 12,925 |
By Sean Rhody The saying goes, "Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door." The world rewards innovation and improvement. It likes new things. This month's focus is on new Java technology. Given the rapid pace of development in our area, that's not quite the oxym... May. 1, 1999 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 11,670 |
By Sean Rhody I remember the first time I saw Jurassic Park and watched as the little girl proceeded to hack into a UNIX system, quickly taking control of the entire park. I couldn't help but laugh at how unlikely that whole scenario was, but it does serve to illustrate the way many people think of ... Apr. 1, 1999 12:00 AM EST Reads: 12,013 |
By Sean Rhody About a year ago, in a magazine not too far away, I wrote an article called "Middle-Tier Madness." A year and several languages later, we're back at the middle-tier stage again. Distributed computing is one of my main areas of interest, so my concern with the middle tier shou... Mar. 1, 1999 12:00 AM EST Reads: 10,336 |
By Sean Rhody Java Developer's Journal was among the many exhibitors at the Java Business Expo at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City. I was only able to make it for one day, but I managed to pack a great deal of interviewing, observation and conversation into that day, in addition to presenti... Feb. 1, 1999 12:00 AM EST Reads: 11,130 |
By Sean Rhody Welcome to 1999. This is typically the time I make predictions about the coming year. Next year I'll get this issue out and have a good laugh at all the things I missed - and the few I actually get right. I'd be remiss in my editorial duty if I didn't make some predictions. Jan. 1, 1999 12:00 AM EST Reads: 11,880 |
By Sean Rhody Every now and then I like to step back from the trenches and try to think like a CIO. I was a CIO at one time, so I can actually do such a thing. And lately, when I think my CIO thoughts, I've been thinking about the impact that Java has made on the Enterprise. Dec. 1, 1998 12:00 AM EST Reads: 11,563 |
By Sean Rhody Build a better mousetrap and the world will build a better mouse. In the beginning we had a two-tiered architecture (I count mainframes as prehistory), and we could figure out how to do things with it. Unfortunately, one of the things we figured out was that we needed more than two tie... Nov. 1, 1998 12:00 AM EST Reads: 10,890 |
By Sean Rhody Toward the end of the last Batman movie, when Robin is giving Batman a hard time, George Clooney gets fed up and says, "This is why Superman works alone." While I'm often tempted to think along the same lines, the reality of our business is that we work in teams. This leads ... Oct. 1, 1998 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 10,618 |
By Sean Rhody About two years ago a colleague of mine named Joe leaned over my cubicle wall and said, "Hey, I just downloaded this new language called Java. It's pretty cool!" At the time I can't remember being very excited about another programming language. I was a PowerBuilder maven and... Sep. 1, 1998 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 10,399 |
By Sean Rhody Picture this. You sit down in your recliner, tell it to go to the "TV watching position," then address your desire to your new 81-inch TV - "Find me a rerun of I Dream of Jeanie" -and sit back to watch Barabara Eden confound Larry Hagman yet again. Sounds far-fetche... Aug. 1, 1998 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 10,771 |
By Sean Rhody Almost invariably, when I write an article I know pretty much what I want to say, and the part I have the most difficulty with is the introduction. This is my first column as editor-in-chief of Java Developer's Journal, so while most of you are familiar with our magazine, many of you m... Jul. 1, 1998 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 11,264 |
By Sean Rhody Two Tier vs N-Tier Client/server applications, and even Java applications that call a database directly, represent the original, two-tiered application architecture. This architecture fits many needs, but often there is a penalty - the need to redevelop or copy code from one applicatio... Apr. 1, 1998 12:00 AM EST Reads: 12,064 |
Sean Rhody is the founding-editor (1999) and editor-in-chief of SOA World Magazine. He is a respected industry expert on SOA and Web Services and a consultant with a leading consulting services company. Most recently, Sean served as the tech chair of SOA World Conference & Expo 2007 East.
