Archive for May, 2008

I’m been sufficiently busy at work since getting back from San Francisco and haven’t had much opportunity to blog.
As part of the JavaOne experience, I’ve taken another look at Twitter and have been using it as a quasi micro-publishing platform. It’s somewhat entertaining and the barrier to tweet is sufficiently lower.
@ajordens
Nothing too exciting and I [...]

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I was surprised when the following email came through my inbox last night.

URGENT! PUBLIC HEALTH ADVISORY FROM JAVAONE TEAM
The JavaOne conference team has been notified by the San Francisco Department of Public Health about an identified outbreak of a virus in the San Francisco area. Testing is still underway to identify the specific virus in [...]

Guido van Rossum, of Python fame, has recently released a Django-based application that enables web-based code reviews… Rietveld.
It supports any language and currently can hook into Subversion repositories. You can see it running on Google AppEngine. Check it out!
Personally, I’m a big fan of Atlassian Crucible and have quickly come to realize the benefits of [...]

We’ve got a fairly significant Swing application that we couldn’t port to Java6 until Apple released a compatible JVM. Fortunately that finally happened last week.
I’m down at JavaOne this week and was motivated to take a stab at resolving the couple dozen compilation problems and get things running.
It really wasn’t too difficult. The most annoying [...]

Just about to head to the airport enroute to San Francisco.
Really looking forward to the conference. Rather than attempt to blog a lot, I’m going to experiment with Twitter. Crazy Bob has compiled a list of JavaOne twitter’s.




  • Pet Peeve: Don’t email my password to me in plain text You know the drill. Signup for some random service on the internet Receive a confirmation email with your account information or Forget a password for some random service ...

  • Eclipise Memory Analyzer (MAT) I must say the Eclipse Memory Analyzer looks pretty slick. There is some pretty good material over on the developers blog. Lastly, there was a talk on it ...

  • Open-source Web-based Code Review Tool: Rietveld Guido van Rossum, of Python fame, has recently released a Django-based application that enables web-based code reviews... Rietveld. It supports any language and currently can hook into Subversion repositories. You ...

  • An implementation of the JVM in Javascript? Caught this over on JavaPosse Google Groups. Essentially, some bright fellows over in Japan have developed a bytecode->javascript compiler. There's a demo floating around that took a Tetris ...

  • Facebook Chat? So it looks like the Facebook Chat service has finally started rolling out to my network (Facebook Chat has been mentioned previously). Not quite sure how ...





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    • Meetings all day, no time to hit the gym. Guess I better go now.... 6:30am.
    • Played around with Fring for a couple minutes tonight, Skype seemed to work (if only to call a test account of mine). 3G would be nice! :)
    • Watched nick and norahs tonight. Have to admit that it was pretty funny. Two weeks until W, wonder what that's going to be like.
    • Locly is a pretty sweet location-based app for the iPhone. Should have busted it out last week in Seattle.

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