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May 08 2008
Sitting in the FindBugs session, it's pretty interesting. The last time I interacted with static analysis it was a product from Parasoft (?) and it wasn't that compelling. FindBugs looks interesting, simple, and is integrated with Hudson. Everyone seems to... read moreMay 07 2008
Participated in a Q+A session after yesterday's keynote. Sat down with Neil Young, Larry Johnson, some Sun executives, and a small group of reporters including Tim O'Reilly. Young and Johnson struck me as animated and excited about both the archive... read moreJavaOne Impressions from Tuesday
May 07 2008
My entries are a day behind. I'm not a reporter, I'm a blogger, and I think it is more important to spend time talking to people than it is to work to some deadline in the press room. There's a... read moreJavaOne => J1 | Nutter on JVM | Groovy Beta "Bytecode Diet"
May 04 2008
If you are following JavaOne on Twitter, you should "track javaone". If you haven't already signed up, you should read Bob Lee's Going to JavaOne? Sign up for Twitter blog entry from two days ago. People were using Twitter last... read moregit with git/svn lives/preemptive adobe(?)
May 01 2008
Assaf Arkin (of Buildr) writes a very long, very informative piece about Git in Git Forking for Fun and Profit. Apache built a great infrastructure around SVN, lots of sweat and tears went into making it happen, and at first... read moreLicense Fake-out hits ExtJS and Java Service Wrapper: Communities Alienated
April 28 2008
In Choosing an OSS License and the Ext-JS saga, Graeme Rocher (of Groovy on Grails fame) reacts to the recent ExtJS switch from LGPL to GPL. Here's a quote: What they have effectively done is built up a community, taking... read moreQuick Wicket Pointers: Netbeans, AJAX, and a Book
April 28 2008
By way of Geertjan's Blog, apparently Netbeans supports Wicket development. Also, from Geertjan is an interview with Jonathon Locke, Eelco Hillenius, and Igor Vaynberg. Read this if you are interested in learning about how Wicket does Ajax. In other news,... read moreApril 27 2008
Sorry, it isn't entirely Ruby related... it is Python Django to be specific, but it is a message aimed at you ("the wiki-worker types") from Lawrence Lessig recruiting people to tag members of Congress at Change-Congress.org: Today we're launching the... read moreSurprising Contender: NetBeans as a Ruby+MySQL IDE
April 26 2008
I'm sure you don't believe it, doesn't seem like NetBeans is going to take the Ruby developer world by storm, but Sun seems to be pouring money into Ruby support. I'm skeptical that the Ruby community is going to embrace... read moreWhat do you want us to focus on for JavaOne?
April 19 2008
O'Reilly is sending a few bloggers to JavaOne, I'm going to be attending with my reporter's hat on. We're interested in knowing what your questions are for this year's conference. We want to give you, the reader, a chance to... read moreHow to Make Applets (and JavaFx) Viable? Macs and Media
April 18 2008
David Herron left a comment on the last blog post, here it is: "ultra-fast Java Plugin"? Have you taken a look at 6u10? That's where your ultra-fast Java Plugin is, it's already been announced, and you can download it today... read moreWhat are they going to announce?
April 18 2008
In the absence of info, I'll make some predictions. Make your own predictions in the comments. I'm going to guess that the keynote is going to talk about Project Caroline. If it is ready, Sun is going to want to... read moreJava Tracking Basketballs from 22,000 nm
April 14 2008
For all the hot air that is thrown around by the self-appointed luminaries of dynamic languages and enterprisey platforms comparing everyone's favorite language and engaging in an endless back and forth. Nothing beats a press release like this. Listen people,... read moreControlling my Computer from GMail
April 14 2008
GCalDaemon So, I'm trying to get around some locked down network rules. Basically, I'm trying to find a way to send SMTP mail from a network that is very locked down. (Appropriately) the network administrators have locked down the network... read moreFaster than expected... (Salesforce, Google + EC2 with Disks)
April 14 2008
The transition is happening faster than I had expected. The transition from hiring a team of Java developers and Linux sysadmins to sit down for a few months and develop an application to a world where you can just provision... read more
