Cathy Shive writes today about the balance between computer administrative debris and useful features in a user interface. Nice article with screenshots of applications with a large amount of debris contrasting with applications that get out of the users way.

Struts 2 and Scala - Jeff Cunningham posts today about how he used Scala in a WebWork/Struts 2 application. Seems to have worked flawlessly without any sort of hacks or workarounds needed. I wonder if anybody has tried the same sort of thing with Groovy yet?

Lessons Learned From Using JBoss Seam -  Matt Raible has a post today listing some things learned while using JBoss Seam.