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Here are a list of downloadable articles found on this website. The topics range from J2EE (Enterprise Java) development, Software Development, Lisp, or other related subjects.

Software Development Series (9/23/2005)

Software Development Diary [pdf 1](J2EE)
Software Development Diary [pdf 2](J2EE)
(7/20/2005)

About Spirit Company (PDF)

J2EE and Spring Framework Notes (PDF)

Spring is one of the latest J2EE(Java Enterprise Edition) replacement frameworks that is supposed to provide Presentation Layer support, Business Logic support as well as the Backend, persistance support. It is basically a framework to bind all frameworks. And, on top of everything I just mentioned, it is lightweight. From working with it, it is not as lightweight as Microsoft's ASP model, but a lot easier to work with than with the early EJBs.

Operating System Development (PDF)

Getting Started with JBOSS and EJB development

The Java Enigma: Why is Java so popular?

Java is really hot, right now. Companies are bending over backwards to make sure that they have a Java solution in the works or at the very least, hire or work with best Java software object gurus in town. Colleges and Universities are using it in their introduction courses as well as their junior and senior software engineering courses.

Get hired in the Software Industry

The premise of the microISV, a business plan discussion

"General advice to anyone wanting to do a bootstrap start-up:
if your idea is good, try for VC (will need more than $10Mil? to break-even) 
or angel investement (< 5Mil? to break-even/ < $1Mil first round).

Advantages:
- you get to spend other peoples money, not your own
- you are forced to develop a sane business plan
- if they tell you no, they probably are seeing things you're missing.
- they have contacts
- they can put a team together for you.
- they'll make sure that your former employer can't sue you

Have you read Nesheim's "High-Tech Startup"? There are lots of other 
books out there on startups but make sure that you read this one.

Whats your growth plan? Whose doing product support on all those sales? 
Does your product require training? documentation? If it requires training, 
whose going to be doing the training? If it requires manuals, 
whose going to be writing the manuals (tech writers!) and what 
will it cost to print them professionally (are you really going 
to use Kinkos or some equivalent for this stuff).

And to generate the kinds of purchases you're talking about 
generally requires some kind of publicity - 
how are you going to do that?"

Speech Notes and Articles

These are generated from the Festival speech synthesis project. The application will read an input text file and output the speech to a digital audio format. This clips use mp3 technology.

.mp3speech - Programming Languages and Types

.mp3speech - Software Development Lifecycle

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