Who is better? Alves or Maicon? What a great goal.
http://www.josesandoval.com/2010/04/did-you-see-maicons-goal.html
Java Software Development and Software Engineering
http://www.josesandoval.com/2010/02/real-madrid-played-well-but-lost-to.html
All well designed software applications are alike; each badly designed software application is badly designed in its own way.For some time now I've been looking at Zipf's Law and wondering if it ...
http://www.josesandoval.com/2008/08/zipfs-law-for-computer-software.html
Yes, he's back. I didn't think he could recover his fitter form, but playing in the World Cup is probably enough incentive for anybody. Look at him go. Great moves and great goals.
Coding styles evolve with the times and are as different as there are developers and programming languages. Where do coding styles come from?We all have our ingrained way of writing and formattin...
http://www.josesandoval.com/2010/01/java-vs-as3-coding-styles.html
Event listener models are not new; however, AS3 event listeners are new to me.I've developed a couple of application in Java Swing and Eclipse RCP, and both frameworks rely heavily on the event d...
http://www.josesandoval.com/2009/12/as3-and-anonymous-event-handlers.html
This week I had to program in AS3. I didn't code from scratch the application I worked on; however, I designed the architecture, so I was familiar with the source and felt confident to jump in to...
http://www.josesandoval.com/2009/12/restful-flexflash-client.html
You heard it here first: Barcelona wins one more trophy in an incredible year. And who do you think scored the winning goal? Messi, of course.
http://www.josesandoval.com/2009/12/barcelona-2-estudiantes-1.html
France is in the World Cup; Ireland is not; and Thierry Henry plays basket-foot-ball. Incredible as it is, the goal counts because not one of the 3 referees on the field saw the hand ball.Was sto...
Do large corporations care when there are bugs in their sites? Chapters is not a small company, so it must have a QA department somewhere. I'm always surprised when obvious errors just show up on...
A team from the Spanish third division knocked out of the King's Cup the mighty team of Real Madrid. If there's one thing we can say about football (soccer) is that it's unpredictable.The Spanish...
http://www.josesandoval.com/2009/11/real-madrid-out-of-kings-cup-already.html
Offer value. Open your platform with an API (RESTful or SOAP). Repeat.
http://www.josesandoval.com/2009/11/basics-of-building-platform.html
One of the main factors in stock market performance is determined by interest rates, or so it has been observed. The dependency of our economy on interest rates is based on the fact that everythi...
Barcelona has some of the best soccer players in the world--Messi, Iniesta, Xavi. Having great players doesn't guarantee success, though. Barcelona is a club with an identity and a team with a cl...
http://www.josesandoval.com/2009/10/beautiful-thing-to-watch-barcelona-fc.html
The new version of Restlet, 2.0, uses Java annotations to make web service development easier than it was with version 1.1. However, these annotations are not based on the JAX-RS specification. T...
http://www.josesandoval.com/2009/06/restlet-20-sample-application-with.html
The book that I've been writing since the beginning of the year is available for pre-ordering now.I'm polishing the last 2 chapters, but the first printed version will be available next m...
http://www.josesandoval.com/2009/10/restful-java-web-services-available-now.html
I finished writing the first draft of my first book about a month ago. I'm now editing chapters, as per recommendation of technical reviewers. The process so far is smooth going. I haven't had to...
I don't watch the NBA anymore, but I did once upon a time when Jordan was king. He was an incredible player.Were those the golden years of professional basketball?
http://www.josesandoval.com/2009/09/i-used-to-watch-nba.html
You point your phone to the sky and it names the stars for you. How cool is that?This is an application for Android phones. I wonder if the iPhone has something similar?
http://www.josesandoval.com/2009/09/augment-reality-is-wheres-at.html
Javier Saviola has to be the most underrated player in Europe. He played for Barcelona and Real Madrid, but was never given the chance to shine. Nonetheless, most of the time he was put on the fi...
http://www.josesandoval.com/2009/09/argentina-needs-saviola.html
Sometimes google maps is not as accurate as it could be. Of course, the application's results are not used for mission critical application that require 100% accuracy, so we forgive it when it re...
http://www.josesandoval.com/2009/08/google-maps-may-need-bit-of.html
By the looks of his new world record (200m in 19.19 seconds), Bolt should just run against the clock. Not one of other competitors was even close to him: his lead was 6m. In a 200m race, that may...
http://www.josesandoval.com/2009/08/should-usain-bolt-just-run-by-himself.html
The Restlet framework does not only offer a server stack for developing web services, it also offers a client connector library, which can be used to develop clients connecting to RESTful web ser...
http://www.josesandoval.com/2009/08/using-restlet-client-connector-library.html
What is it with Usain Bolt? All his drugs test are coming back clean. This means that he's either clean, or his drug guy is really good. Most are hoping for the former, but the latter is still on...
http://www.josesandoval.com/2009/08/once-again-bolt-jogs-to-finish-line.html
I remember reading somewhere that the fastest time a man could ever run the 100m dash was 9.60 seconds. The claim was that physiology would get in the way. Apparently, Bolt didn't get the memo. U...
http://www.josesandoval.com/2009/08/usain-bolt-is-958-seconds-fast.html