My colleague Alex Miller has created a new group in the St. Louis area focusing on interest in functional and dynamic programming languages. He has dubbed it the Lambda Lounge (referring to λ-calculus ), and the first meeting will be December 4 at 6PM .
I am very excited to be among the presenters at the first meeting. I’ll be giving a short presentation on Groovy me...... [Show More]
virtual filesystem Post Source: www.hoosgot.com Posted: Nov 11 2008 03:32:00
...ts of Java heap. So, if anyone’s looking for a cool (and useful) open source project, this would be a great …
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reward failure Post Source: feeds.feedburner.com Posted: Oct 14 2008 17:16:33
Alex Miller has written a very important post on the importance of failure , putting, what has been one of my guiding principles in leadership and working environment building, in words.
It can’t be emphasized enough that for a company to be a leader and not a follower one of the most important things is to foster an environment that encourages and rewards failure - as a potential outcom...... [Show More]
cheers darling Post Source: evolutionarygoo.com Posted: Oct 10 2008 19:48:12
In the last week I’ve really gotten into Irish rock music. Last weekend I rented the movie, Once , based on the recommendation of a friend who said it was a must see. The movie, which was made for a low price of $160,000 has been a huge success. It features the lead singer of the Irish rock band, The Frames . The music in this movie is brilliant. The story is great too. About half way into...... [Show More]
A week or two ago I wrote asking Is it time for Java 5? . I got a few answers, but nothing definitive. Today, however, I stumbled upon a blog post from Alex Miller which helped me decide.
Apparently, Java 1.4 will officially reach its end of service life (EOSL) at the end of October 2008. That of itself does not imply that nobody will continue to use it, but it does help third-party...... [Show More]
...rage these days in the agile world. I’ve done development both with and without them and honestly I haven’t found …
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Alex Miller declared a Giles Bowkett talk (purportedly about “Archaeopteryx: A Ruby MIDI Generator”) the best presentation ever. I was skeptical.
Wow. “Best Ever” is an overstatment of course; but it’s worth your 45 minutes and then some....... [Show More]
Recently, I created a poll asking what versions of the JDK people were using in production. I think at this point I have a representative sample (over 300 responses) and can report the results. Which JDK are you using? The first question asked which JDK version was being used in production and multiple answers were allowed. Interestingly the distribution showed: J2SE 1.4: 37% J2SE 5....... [Show More]
the book is out Post Source: feeds.feedburner.com Posted: Jun 30 2008 21:32:46
The Definite Guide to Terracotta by me and my colleagues; Ari , Geert , Alex , Orion and Taylor , is now available in the stores.
It is a pragmatic and practical book, with tons of real-world examples and stories, so if you want to learn how to use Terracotta for real then go and order a copy ....... [Show More]
This is not the run of the mill Nook post, but I thought I’d give Google the benefit of an account of some very shady internet practices that Drugstore.com is using. Last month we purchased some items from Drugstore.com and apparently there was an obscure “box” that was checked (by default?) that got us a free trial membership at Reservatio nRewards.c om .
Apparently t...... [Show More]
Sun announces JavaFX @ JavaOne 2008. JavaFX Script is a declarative language which will have its own runtime engine. Thus I expect in the future (2009?) every browser will have 3 plug-ins as standard - Flash, Silverlight and JavaFX.
Kaazing appears to be pushing it’s real-time RIA push technology solution hard into the enterprise space with it’s recently partnering wi...... [Show More]
...tral location. Stir, repeat, and spit out a map for big conferences like JavaOne so that you can know where to go for …
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im a nofluffer Post Source: feeds.feedburner.com Posted: Apr 07 2008 20:41:09
I sacrificed my weekend to attend Omaha’s No Fluff Just Stuff. And I had a great time. Some of my highlights:
I saw most of Ken Sipe’s talks, mostly because everything he talked about was applicable to me. My favorites of his were Iteration 0 (starting off on an Agile project) and the Scalability talk.
Everyone in the room was awed by Alex Miller’...... [Show More]
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Today I decided to be a bit pickier with the sessions I attended. I was going to go to Scott Davis’ presentation on Real World JSON, but decided against it since I already use JSON extensively and know how to serve it up from the serverside (as well as tools to nicely serialize/ unserializ e domain objects as JSON). Ditto on Ted Neward’s presentation on annotations… we̵...... [Show More]
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