Mark Volkmann

Marathons

Lewis & Clark 2006	New York 2006	Little Rock 2007	Steamboat 2008

Upcoming Runs

Memphis Marathon

Bookmarks

English - and how I'd change it

Notes on Various Programming Topics
(Feedback is welcomed! Send it to mark at ociweb dot com.)

Abator - code generator for iBATIS
Adobe AIR
ActiveRecord - Ruby persistence framework
ANTLR 3 - parser generator
Binary Optimized XML (BOX)
Clojure - programming language and development environments
Google Web Toolkit (GWT) - Java web app. framework
IDEA GWT Studio - IDEA plugin for GWT
Guice - a Java dependency injection framework
iBATIS - persistence framework
Java 5 - new features
Java Logging - logging framework in JDK
JFreeChart - creates many kinds of graphs in many output formats
JRuby slides
Java Script Object Notation (JSON) - object serialization format
Log4J - logging framework
Ruby and C slides
Smalltalk - programming language and development environments
Spring IOC - Inversion of Control framework for Java
Spring Transactions - declarative transaction management using Java annotations
Vim - vi Improved
WAX - Writing API for XML
XStream - serializes Java objects to and from XML

OCI Java News Brief Articles
(ordered from newest to oldest)

Writing API for XML (WAX) - September 2008
ANTLR 3 - June 2008
JRuby - April 2007
SWIG - January 2006
REST - November 2004
Groovy - February 2004
Tools for Java Coding Standards - November 2002
SOAP and Web Services - August 2001
Ant - November 2000
Java/XML-based Shopping Cart - August 2000
What is XML? - August 1999
Tooltips in AWT and Swing - May 1999

St. Louis Java User Group Presentations
(ordered from newest to oldest)

Ajax - July 2005
J2EE 1.4 Web Services - February 2004
Aspect-Oriented Programming with AspectJ and AspectWerkz - August 2003
Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB) - May 2003
Axis - September 2002
Web Services - November 2001
Ant - March 2001
eXtensible Markup Language (XML) - January 2000
Swing JTable - April 1999
Java Native Interface (JNI) - October 1998
JDBC - August 1998
Java RMI - January 1998
Java Reflection - November 1997
Java Serialization - October 1997
AWT Event Model - June 1997
Java - What's the Excitement About? - May 1997

St. Louis Ruby User Group Presentations
(ordered from newest to oldest)

JRuby - March 2007
Ruby Tools - February 2006
Distributed Ruby - September 2005
Ajax and REST with Ruby - May 2005

No Fluff Just Stuff Presentations at the Gateway Software Symposium
(ordered from newest to oldest)

ANTLR 3 - March 2008
Google Web Toolkit - September 2007
Ruby Plays Well With Others (JRuby and Ruby C Extensions) - March 2007
Ruby Tools - 2006
Schematron - 2005
Groovy - 2004
JAXB - 2003

Other Presentations
(ordered from newest to oldest)

CVS - given at A. G. Edwards
XML - The Solution To Bridging Software Divides? - St. Louis Web Developers' Seminar, Principia, October 2001
DOM Level 2 and a Glimpse of Level 3 - XML DevCon, New York City, NY, April 2001
What's New in DOM Level 2 - XML DevCon, San Jose, CA, November 2000
Ant - XML DevCon, San Jose, CA, November 2000
XML for Technical Writers - Society for Technical Communication - St. Louis, January 23, 2002
Google Web Toolkit - MasterCard lunch 'n learn, May 16, 2007

Java Web Start Applications

Demo

Getting Things DONE