<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Tags @ alan.blog-city.com</title><link>http://alan.blog-city.com/</link><description>(Tags) Alan Williamson&apos;s personal output as a Java Champion, BlueDragon Founder, Blog-City Architect, Cloud expert, Author, Speaker, and Internet Guru</description><copyright>Copyright 2009 alan.blog-city.com</copyright><generator>Alan Williamson</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:04:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>Tags @ alan.blog-city.com</title><url>http://files.blog-city.com/images/blog-city_small.jpg</url><link>http://alan.blog-city.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>Server side Javascript with CFML</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://alan.blog-city.com/server_side_javascript_with_cfml.htm</guid><link>http://alan.blog-city.com/server_side_javascript_with_cfml.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:04:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I have been developing a plugin that enables Javascript to be used within CFML apps.  Instead of coding CFSCRIPT blocks, you can use pure Javascript and get at all the CFML richness underneath.   This is an introduction to that effort.]]></description></item><item><title>Java 5 dies - mourning a revolution</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://alan.blog-city.com/java5_dies.htm</guid><link>http://alan.blog-city.com/java5_dies.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:54:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Java5 officially dies today.  Let us mourn the passing of a revolution in Java development and look at the legacy he leaves us.]]></description></item><item><title>A Simple Java class for Amazon SimpleSQS</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://alan.blog-city.com/simplesqs.htm</guid><link>http://alan.blog-city.com/simplesqs.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:20:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A very simple POJO Java class for accessing all of the features of Amazon's SQS web service.  Full API support.  No dependencies.  Just use it!]]></description></item><item><title>A Simple Java class for Amazon SimpleDB</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://alan.blog-city.com/simpleclass_amazondb_july2009htm.htm</guid><link>http://alan.blog-city.com/simpleclass_amazondb_july2009htm.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:20:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A very simple POJO Java class for accessing all of the features of Amazon's SimpleDB web service.  Support for all new methods including select, and batchputattributes.  No dependencies.  Just use it!]]></description></item><item><title>Part 1 of my java.sun.com interview</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://alan.blog-city.com/javasuncom_part1.htm</guid><link>http://alan.blog-city.com/javasuncom_part1.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:16:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I was recently interviewed for java.sun.com on the wonders of cloud computing and java]]></description></item><item><title>Elastic Bamboo 2.2 utilising Amazon EC2 for faster builds</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://alan.blog-city.com/elastic_bamboo.htm</guid><link>http://alan.blog-city.com/elastic_bamboo.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 07:50:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Atlassian has just released their new version of their continuous build integration suite, called Elastic Bamboo. This is a way for you to automatically and scale out your build and testing requirements by using Amazon's EC2 platform.]]></description></item><item><title>Goodbye Macworld, Apple bites the hands that feeds it</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://alan.blog-city.com/goodbye_macworld.htm</guid><link>http://alan.blog-city.com/goodbye_macworld.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 23:17:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Good night Gracie, Apple has left the building.  Developers are probably the most important part of any products eco-cycle, this is the last group of people you want to upset.  Can you imagine Java without JavaOne?  Unthinkable.]]></description></item><item><title>Single Java class for accessing GoGrid</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://alan.blog-city.com/javaclass_gogrid.htm</guid><link>http://alan.blog-city.com/javaclass_gogrid.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:34:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[GoGrid is an alternative cloud platform to the likes of Amazon.  They too have an API allowing you to build your own UI.  If you want a complete single no-fuss Java class to control GoGrid, then look no further.]]></description></item><item><title>Profiling Netbeans within Amazon Ec2</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://alan.blog-city.com/netbeans_amazon.htm</guid><link>http://alan.blog-city.com/netbeans_amazon.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:02:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Kirk Pepperdine has started to move his benchmarking knowledge to the world of clouds.  We are going to start seeing some real reports as one of the worlds leading Java performance tuning experts turns his attention to the world of clouds.]]></description></item><item><title>Updated Simple Java API class for Amazon SimpleDB</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://alan.blog-city.com/simpleclass_amazondb_oct2008.htm</guid><link>http://alan.blog-city.com/simpleclass_amazondb_oct2008.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:26:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Access Amazon's SimpleDB via a Java class that has no other dependencies or external libraries.  Code as it should be.  Uncomplicated and works.]]></description></item><item><title>From deep within the bowels of SUN</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://alan.blog-city.com/sun_faith.htm</guid><link>http://alan.blog-city.com/sun_faith.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:50:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Last week I had the pleasure of visiting the SUN campus, where I was given a tour of a lab that makes James Bond's Q lab look like a childs room.  We've forgotton what SUN actually do.  Maybe they have too.]]></description></item><item><title>Windows 3.1 on a Nokia N810</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://alan.blog-city.com/n810_windows.htm</guid><link>http://alan.blog-city.com/n810_windows.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:03:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Running Windows3.1 within your nokia N810 internet tablet, and if thats not enough, how about Linux inside an applet inside your browser?]]></description></item><item><title>Speaking at CloudCamp London</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://alan.blog-city.com/cloudcamp.htm</guid><link>http://alan.blog-city.com/cloudcamp.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:40:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[If you are going to be in London next week, then pop along to the CloudCamp meet up, to discuss all the latest going on's in the world of cloud and ondemand computing]]></description></item><item><title>A simple Java API class for Amazon SimpleDB</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://alan.blog-city.com/simpleclass_amazondb.htm</guid><link>http://alan.blog-city.com/simpleclass_amazondb.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:04:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Getting access to Amazon's SimpleDB doesn't require a huge amount of complicated classes or libraries.  Building upon a single class, I have added some helper methods that lets you put data in and out with a single class, no external JARs.]]></description></item><item><title>java.lang.InternalError at sun.misc.URLClassPath$JarLoader.getResource()</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://alan.blog-city.com/jarloader_exception.htm</guid><link>http://alan.blog-city.com/jarloader_exception.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:36:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[After chasing down a bizarre class exception, that was very little to do with the exception being thrown, Grizzly once more roars into success.]]></description></item><item><title>Google Web Toolkit Applications (Book Review)</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://alan.blog-city.com/google_web_toolkit_applications_book_review.htm</guid><link>http://alan.blog-city.com/google_web_toolkit_applications_book_review.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:11:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The book 'Googel Web Toolkit Applications' from Ryan Dewsbury is an excellent read for the GWT developer.  Filled with rich complex examples exploring all the areas of the GWT API.]]></description></item><item><title>Google&apos;s GWT continues to amaze and delight</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://alan.blog-city.com/gwt_power.htm</guid><link>http://alan.blog-city.com/gwt_power.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:11:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Google's GWT framework is just a beautiful piece of software engineering. Providing a wonderfully reliable layer over Javascript makes coding reliable and cross-browser Javascript applications a breeze.  We have begun to integrate GWT into OpenBD]]></description></item><item><title>Open Source BlueDragon, what does it mean for you?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://alan.blog-city.com/bluedragon_open_source.htm</guid><link>http://alan.blog-city.com/bluedragon_open_source.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:53:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[With the announcement that we are taking BlueDragon J2EE and moving to an open source GPL license, what does this really mean for the CFML developer, the CFML community and the overall web scripting market?]]></description></item><item><title>Grizzly 1.7 Released - Shows just what Java is made of</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://alan.blog-city.com/grizzly.htm</guid><link>http://alan.blog-city.com/grizzly.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2007 09:43:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Grizzly, the high performance framework for Java NIO, is released bringing a whole new world of scalability to the humble Java developer.]]></description></item><item><title>JavaFX - Sun javax.swing&apos;s and misses once again</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://alan.blog-city.com/javafx.htm</guid><link>http://alan.blog-city.com/javafx.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2007 00:39:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Sun releases JavaFX, another DOA technology from Sun that will only have Adobe and Microsoft laughing their asses off at how little they have to worry.]]></description></item><item><title>OpenJDK - Java officially open sources under GPL</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://alan.blog-city.com/openjdk.htm</guid><link>http://alan.blog-city.com/openjdk.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 2006 09:21:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Sun finally does it; Java is open sourced under GPL.]]></description></item><item><title>Simple SWT File Drag&apos;n&apos;Drop example</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://alan.blog-city.com/swt_dragndrop.htm</guid><link>http://alan.blog-city.com/swt_dragndrop.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2006 16:16:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I have been wrestling with getting a very simple drag'n'drop SWT application to work.  I contribute an example to others that may also choose to tread this path; ability to accept files being dropped in from an external application.]]></description></item><item><title>NL-JUG JFall Conference Review</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://alan.blog-city.com/nljugjfall.htm</guid><link>http://alan.blog-city.com/nljugjfall.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Oct 2006 09:23:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A great conference was put together by the Netherlands Java User Group.  Here is a quick review of the days events.]]></description></item><item><title>The night before the NLJUG</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://alan.blog-city.com/njug.htm</guid><link>http://alan.blog-city.com/njug.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Oct 2006 20:57:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I have arrived in Holland and ready for tomorrows NLJUG event]]></description></item><item><title>About Alan Williamson</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://alan.blog-city.com/about.htm</guid><link>http://alan.blog-city.com/about.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2003 20:30:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Alan Williamson is the Technology Evanaglist with SpikeSource.  He is also the original architect behind BlueDragon (a Java based CFML engine) and Blog-City (a blogging community built using BlueDragon).  He writes, he talks, he codes!]]></description></item></channel></rss>