30 Java-based Open Source UML tools - Java Plugin - J2EE Plugin - Tomcat Plugin

30 Java-based Open Source UML tools - Java Plugin - J2EE Plugin - Tomcat Plugin

Linking to this for later. I'd like to try some alternatives to ArgoUML.

How To Beat Myst on the iPhone in 5 Minutes | Mac|Life

How To Beat Myst on the iPhone in 5 Minutes | Mac|Life

I'm going to need this later.

Iridient Digital - RAW Developer

Iridient Digital - RAW Developer

I'm giving this a test spin as I've read that its raw processing algorithm may be superior to Adobe Lightroom, especially for the Canon 5D MkII. We'll see.

Top 10 Tutorials for Web Designers

Top 10 Tutorials for Web Designers

Keeping track of this posting since it is a good compilation of useful and relevant tutorials.

Dan Walmsley » Blog Archive » Apache Wicket on Google App Engine for Java

Dan Walmsley » Blog Archive » Apache Wicket on Google App Engine for Java

I'm saving this one for later. Although I haven't taken the time to learn Wicket, I'd like to pick it up in the context of using GAE since to me Struts2 can be a heavy-handed way to approach a simple website.

Getting Started With Spring Batch 2.0 | Javalobby

Getting Started With Spring Batch 2.0 | Javalobby

This is a good article but still I'm yet to find much substance on how to get a skeleton project start and no Maven archetype exists that I can find.

OS X instantclient and .tnsnames.ora

.tnsnames.ora - Doug's Oracle Blog

This blog entry was a huge help in geting the Oracle instant client to work for me on OS X. No matter what I tried I could not get my TNS_ADMIN variable to work with sqlplus. What a relief to discover that a personal tnsnames.ora can be created in one's home directory.