Having recently implemented a database connection pooling in our web applications, I want to share some of the issues we stumbled upon during the implementation. Clean up your database calls Make sure that you close your ResultSet and the database connection after every call to the database or you risk to fill-up your connection pool [...]

Happy Holidays from Unlimi-Tech! Leading into the holidays and the New Year, we wanted to send out a note to all of our customers to thank them for their patronage, and to briefly recap 2009. In this past year we have continued innovate and grow. We experienced record growth this year, in terms of worldwide [...]

Here are some pictures from the JavaOne conference. ...enjoy.

Well, two days have passed since NAB closed for exhibition, and I can say that I enjoyed the whole experience. Unlike some of the other staff who attended, this was my first trade show, and what a trade show to attend! We'll file a full report sometime in the coming week, but for now here [...]

If you're into podcasts and Massively Online (MMO) gaming, there really is no better place to go to than VirginWorlds. Yes, I am a bit biased with this because, I too, have a show that I do there as well ....one among the many show offerings at that site. For those that are not familiar, [...]

One of Steve Kayser's latest articles, The End of Marketing and PR isn't exactly about the end of PR (rather, it's about the new approach businesses must take to marketing and PR), but the title of the article got me to thinking. To start with, FileCatalyst has been ramping up our use of the technologies [...]

If you are anything like me, you are very particular about details. When it came time to redesign FileCatalyst.com about a year ago, we did what many companies do, and hired design professionals. This party was responsible for taking our overall requirements, developing a design we could sign off on, and delivering basic HTML templates [...]