Which is the best web framework?

This is always a lively debate after a few pints. It generally falls, with the Java heads I've had the pleasure of drinking with, to the best of the worst...cus they all suck in someway or another. But for me, after watching this short webcast, the debate is over. How to create an ajax enabled blog from scratch with atom feed in 15 minutes.

Manage JPA Tables Using An Active Collection

No ceremony, no fanfare: the first open source software that I'm part of. http://github.com/opsb/active-collections/tree/master#

Science of Motivation

I've worked for several companies where the idea of personal development time was put on the table. In all cases 'the business' disagreed with the idea with the usual fear of loss of productivity and therefore missed deadlines. This fear extends to agile software development, especially as software gets closer to a big release date; it's the developers that put in 80+ hour a weeks that are the ones that get the pat on the back from 'the business', rather than the developers that deliver high quality and robust software. Now I sound a little bitter here, and perhaps I am, but I come from a science background and I like to question beliefs and do things because of evidence not for historical reasons. A great many companies have a provincial attitude that is stranded in old fashion dogma, perhaps with videos like this time are a changin.