zammetti.com - The web home of Frank W. Zammetti

• Books by Frank
  I have authored four books thus far, with a fifth being wrapped up shortly.
• Technical articles by Frank
  A couple of different topics, and they're all a bit old now, although probably still relevant (to some degree)
• Frank's blog
  Not always safe for work (or safe for your spouse to catch you reading!)
• Omnytex Technologies
  Omnytex is Frank's psuedo-company that used to sell, but now gives away, a number of products for the Windows Mobile (PocketPC, if you're an old-timer like me!) platform (and one for your desktop Windows machine too)
• Frank's resume
  I AM NOT currently on the market, but I keep my resume out here in case someone wants to offer me a million-dollar salary... in which case we can talk :)
• Frank's Facebook page
  Yes, I'm finally socializing a bit there!
• Frank's first Facebook game
  Essentially this is just one of the games from one of my books wrapped up in the Facebook platform (rather loosely in all honesty). It was really just a learning experience for me to understand how to work with Facebook. I have plans for a much more expansive game down the road (and, I'm hoping, a potentially profitable one)
• Materials from Frank's DWR presentation (slides and code)
  This was a presentation given on 3/25/2009 to the Philadelphia Java User's Group on the DWR library
• The Java Web Parts (JWP) project (includes APT)
  The AjaxParts Taglib (APT) is probably the most "famous" component of JWP, both of which were created by Frank
• The Ajax Experience 2008 "Retrofitting Struts with Ajax Taglibs" presentation
  A friend of mine, Ted Husted, himself a well-known Apache Foundation member, gave a presentation at 2008's Ajax Experience conference at which he asked me to give a bonus presentation on the JSON-P support in APT, and this link is to his blog entry talking about it, which itself contains a link to the materials from the presentation.
• The DataVision project
  DataVision is an open-source reporting tool similar to Crystal Reports, originally created by Jim Menard, which Frank is now leading
• Struts Projects at SourceForge
  The Struts Projects site serves as a repository for examples and extensions to the Struts framework (or at least, that was the original intent... I'm frankly not sure if anyone does anything with it any more). I have two contributions up there: AjaxChat, which shows how to write a chat application in Struts using Ajax techniques, and AjaxTags, which was an extension to the Struts HTML taglib that provides Ajax capabilities to Struts developers without them having to write any JavaScript. This was the precursor to APT.
• The Struts Web Services Enablement Project
  This is a project I started that allows Struts (1.x) Actions to be accessed as "proper" web services with no change to them. This is listed more for historic purposes as I have not done anything with this project in a very long time, but it's a project I started, so I figure it might be of interest to someone.
• PocketFrog
  PocketFrog is a graphics library for the Windows Mobile platform. It is now more or less dead, but a while back I took over development of it (although around that time it kind of lost relevance so I never did much with it frankly). In fact, my most major contribution, aside from a few new features a couple of years back, is getting it onto SourceForge for posterity :) PocketFrog was originally written by Thierry Tremblay by the way, not me (credit where credit is due and all that!)