Wagnerblog

I just bought the most expensive tank of gas ever. It was $63.00 for an amount of gas that used to cost $35.00 tops. Amazing. The most expensive tank of gas of my entire life and as the news reports, prices will continue to rise into the summer.

• Some Html, css and front end related cheat sheets can be found here.
• Jeff Atwood has a post in which some people redesign craigslist just for fun.
• Lately Dan and I have been discussing J2EE to .NEt interoperability. Its possible to do in several ways and here are some tools that can help. JIntegra is the best presented in the bunch and seems very cost effective as well.

Another company in the same space but more expensive is JNBridge. A third alternative, rather than having two seperate systems talk via web services or remoting, is Laurence Moroney’s company Mainsoft. It has a very intriguing offering – a tool that allows dev’s to Visual Studio and then convert a C# application to Java bytecode. Before you jump to conclusions, look at his client list. I think this may just work. How neat.

By the way, here is a pdf discussing the performance differences of using web services over other technologies – like remoting. It shows that remoting performns much better.