Chris Degiere and Associates

Competitive research and traffic analysis is an important part of launching a new site or web app.

I did a quick study that uses source code search sites as the subject for comparison. Here I  highlight some key metrics from these two Firefox add-ons:

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Some notable links from my delicious bookmarks related to things I’m currently working on:

- The ME Awards 2008 | London | Mobile Entertainment

http://www.mobile-ent.biz/me-awards

- WURFL

http://wurfl.sourceforge.net/

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Too busy coding to update the blog so here’s some news: Spring Framework 2.5 Released!

A much welcome new version with some great new additions from the Spring Team. I’m excited to try out the new testing framework and annotation based configuration!

There’s a great article over at the server side about Spring as the new Java EE.

I favored Spring and Hibernate over the more widely sanctioned Struts and EJB combo a long time ago. It’s always nice to see I’m not the only one embracing change and the article covers nicely similar transitions in the Java conference space.

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I love the Spring Framework. It’s pretty much changed my enterprise Java development. I’ve also ditched Struts for Spring MVC to keep my technology stack simple.

A new project calls for Ajax enabled pages so I’ve been researching AJAX integration with Spring MVC.

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