Adam Jordens@littlesquare:~/

This past weekend the development team (all 18 of us) traveled down to Seattle for the annual Pacific Northwest Software Symposium (aka. NFJS Seattle).  Jay and the gang always do a great job with the tour and this year was no exception.  Much fun was...

I was pretty keen on attending this years OSCON in Portland but it unfortunately didn't fit into the conference budget. It's never really a replacement for attending but a good majority of the presentations this year are now available (as PDFs) here. I...

I spent most of today debugging some performance problems we're having in our application. It's fun stuff, I really enjoy it. Lately it's been a lot of threading work with Swing which is a fairly interesting area to play in. It's amazing what kind of...

I had a few days off from work over the holidays and decided to do a bit of an investigation into Gavin King's new web framework, Seam. My recent background has predominantly been in the J2EE space (Spring + Hibernate 3.0/3.2) but fronted with a thick...

The day started with getting up at 4:00am, sending a few work emails, and getting into a van with 7 or 8 of my closest colleagues (I mean that in the literal sense... that van was small). NFJS is being held in Redmond again this year so that meant...

So, JavaOne 2006 officially kicked off today. I attended the following first day sessions: Desktop Java™ Technology Today: Deep Dive Essential Lessons of Distributed Caching What Is Happening With SOA in Open Source? Service Component Architecture:...

Just got out of the keynote session.... All in all, not too impressed. It basically consisted of a number of sun dignataries introducing their corporate friends and newfound Netbeans adopters. Very little talk on the whole open sourcing of Java issue,...

Next weekend I'll be in sunny San Francisco getting ready to take in my first JavaOne. We're staying in the Sir Francis Drake, which was recommended by one of the guys travelling with us. There's no way I'm actually going to be able to sit in sessions...

I just caught an announcement that Compass 0.9 was released. Not knowing what Compass actually was, I ventured over to the OpenSympony site. Compass is a first class open source Java Search Engine Framework, enabling the power of Search Engine semantics...

So it's been ~3 weeks since I switched my primary development environment from Ubuntu to Windows. I wasn't sure how it would turn out (been a Linux user for the better part of the past 12 years), but I've actually been quite happy. All my tools...