From the looks of this site, you wouldn't guess that I have been developing for the Web for more than ten years. Ever hear the story about the cobbler's children who have no shoes? At least I can say that this site is slightly less ugly than it used to be.
If you don't know me personally, you're probably looking for NetBeans section of tomwheeler.com.
This describes how to reach me.
Tue Sep 5 23:23:26 EDT 2006Dawn and I just got back from Maryland visiting my second nephew, who is even finer in person than the pictures would show.
Fri Jun 9 23:32:58 EDT 2006My first nephew, Andrew James Wheeler, was born this morning. Pictures will be forthcoming.
Sun Mar 20 18:44:49 EST 2005I am a little late with the info, but I am now both an uncle and a godfather. I have the coolest niece in the world. I also have two nephews on the way, one from both sides of the family. Here's one of those works in progress.
Sat Aug 19 18:53:22 EST 2006Dawn and I are back from a nice long trip to London, Glasgow and Edinburgh. It was fantastic.
Sat Mar 4 11:14:28 EST 2005I am just back from Seattle again. This time I stayed in Mukilteo, which is a nice small town right on the water. It was very nice and peaceful and there is a great microbrewery called the Diamond Knot only two blocks from where we stayed. On the other hand, I missed some great St. Louis weather (78F in February) and it was cold and rainy in Seattle this time.
Tue Jan 17 23:08:47 EST 2006Dawn and I are just back from a cruise in the eastern Caribbean. We stopped in Puerto Rico, St. Thomas and the Dominican Republic. We spent a night in South Beach before leaving, but it was not much warmer there than in St. Louis.
Most of my recent open source efforts have been based on working with the NetBeans platform, which is a framework that can help you create great Swing-based Java applications in less time. You can find lots of examples and documentation in the NetBeans section of tomwheeler.com.
Other open source tools I have written include the St. Louis Web Developers Job Board and a patch to gzip to support a -o (output) option. The gzip patch is against the 1.3.3 sources and was needed to support decompression of files from a forked process in Delphi (which, I was told, cannot read from the standard output stream though I have trouble believing that).
Mon Oct 8 09:35:27 EDT 2007I have updated and made public a presentation I recently gave on the Java Content Repository.
Tue Dec 12 08:50:50 EST 2006I wrote the Java News Brief for December, which is about Automated Automated Builds Made Easy with Hudson. It describes the open source Hudson project from a continuous integration perspective, and has lots of screenshots to help get you up and running in less than ten minutes.
Thu Feb 9 19:58:14 EST 2006My interview about NetBeans platform development has been published to the NetBeans Platform Web site.
Sat Oct 1 08:47:11 EDT 2005My follow-up Java News Brief article about writing a complete application using the NetBeans Platform has now been published.
Fri Sep 2 19:46:18 EDT 2005I wrote an introductory article about developing with the NetBeans Platform for the Java News Brief.
Mon Apr 11 23:52:57 EDT 2005I wrote a presentation about developing Web sites using free software and delivered it to a student group at the University of Missouri - St. Louis and also to the St. Louis Web Developers Organization.
Tue Nov 2 00:10:07 EST 2004I forgot to add this at the time, but I wrote an article about Static Source Code Defect Analysis in May.
August, 2001I gave a presentation to the St. Louis Web Developers Organization about the process I used to redesign the group's Web site
September/October 1998I gave two presentations on open source UNIX desktop environments at the St. Louis UNIX Users Group's Linux SIG in 1998. The first one was about the available options at the time, while the second one was all about the brand new GNOME desktop which was at version 0.26 at the time. GNOME is my main desktop environment and I had forgotten how much it had changed until I saw the screenshots.
Fri Feb 6 16:45:44 EST 2004
I have left my position at WebMD and am now working for Object Computing, Inc. (OCI). You can see their Web site at www.ociweb.com. This will give me the opportunity to learn a lot of new things and also to do some training periodically.
Tue Mar 19 23:18:37 EST 2002
At my last job (Teralogix/ABF/WebMD), I built a Web-based front end to a computing cluster that processes healthcare claims information. I used Web Services (an XML-based "object" protocol over HTTP transport) to communicate between the machines (request scheduling). I have documented some of my experiences with SOAP, which are now quite old and of historical significance only. The problems we encountered were mainly from the Microsoft SOAP toolkit, which has long since been replaced with the Web services support in Microsoft .NET tools (which works much better).