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If you’ve read my blog for any length of time, you’ve probably seen me reference (here and here) The Art in Computer Programming by Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas. I first encountered this piece last year when Dave gave a fantastic keynote at NFJS so when I saw this post on Andy’s blog last week I had to point to it. DeveloperDotStar has taken their work and added links to the art mentioned throughout - it’s almost as good as seeing Andy or Dave present live…almost!

I’ve been a fan of A List Apart for some time now and I get really excited when my blog reader says they’ve posted something new. Today they covered a topic near and dear to my heart with a piece entitled Getting Started with Ajax which does a great job of covering the basics. Of course I was particularly pleased to see that Foundations of Ajax was listed in the Ajax Resources section! I know this may seem a bit biased, but if you’re a web designer and you don’t subscribe to ALA, you really should (and if you don’t…well, you’re in the minority - A List Apart is 22 on Technorati).

My second tutorial for IBM developerWorks is now available. Here’s the abstract:

In this tutorial, you’ll return to the Auction application that you developed in Part 2. You’ll add functionality to what you developed previously and connect to your entity beans via a Web-based front end. You’ll take advantage of leading-edge technologies like JavaServer Faces (JSF) and Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML) to create a dynamic Web project — and, thanks to IBM Rational Application Developer’s powerful Web design features, you’ll hardly have to touch the keyboard.

For the entire tutorial, click here: Improved application development, Part 4: Building a Web client. You should check out parts 3, Incorporating changes in requirements and 5, Testing and verifying with Rational tools both written by MC Brown.

My first tutorial for IBM developerWorks is now available. Here’s the abstract:

In this tutorial, you move from modeling your use cases to building the components of your application. Learn how Rational Application Developer enables you to create class diagrams while generating much of the template code for your components. With this outline in hand, add application-specific implementation code that extends the original model, which you will test in the final part of this tutorial by deploying your code to WebSphere, working through any bugs before moving to more formal testing.

For the entire tutorial, click here: Improved application development, Part 2: Developing solutions with Rational Application Developer

You should really read the first tutorial written by MC Brown before embarking on mine.