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JCP Wants You, Sort Of, It Thinks...: The Java Community Process wants you to join, but they need to make people more important if they want you for real.
Posted by arnold on May 18, 2006 at 09:31 PST | Permalink | Discuss (26)  

A Second Language for the JVM!!: Is it really a new thing?
Posted by arnold on May 16, 2006 at 13:44 PST | Permalink | Discuss (9)  

Getting underway: Un-live blogging the opening keynote
Posted by arnold on May 16, 2006 at 11:24 PST | Permalink | Discuss (1)  

Harmony: Open Source Java
Posted by arnold on June 30, 2005 at 11:29 PST | Permalink | Discuss (5)  

Names matter: What are name tags for?
Posted by arnold on June 28, 2005 at 16:27 PST | Permalink | Discuss (3)  

Miss Manners at JavaOne: Be thoughtful.
Posted by arnold on June 27, 2005 at 23:16 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

Generics Considered Harmful: “Complexity budgets” are important. Too bad we didn't think that way earlier.
Posted by arnold on June 27, 2005 at 10:53 PST | Permalink | Discuss (53)  

Oh no, not again: Thanks for all the fish...
Posted by arnold on June 27, 2005 at 05:30 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

Unicode marches on: Ah, Unicode meets Java and life gets odder...
Posted by arnold on June 06, 2005 at 06:04 PST | Permalink | Discuss (9)  

Ludicrous as a Balm for Patent Idiocy: Stop thinking so hard: My "ludicrous patent" theory really isn't such a big change. It might just have a useful effect, though.
Posted by arnold on November 26, 2004 at 14:43 PST | Permalink | Discuss (9)  

Self-enforcing Patent Sanity: Why not pay foxes to guard the henhouse from other foxes?
Posted by arnold on November 22, 2004 at 18:44 PST | Permalink | Discuss (6)  

Patentably idiotic: Kodak helps us prove that software patents are broken.
Posted by arnold on October 07, 2004 at 11:59 PST | Permalink | Discuss (16)  

Knowing What's Where:
Posted by arnold on June 30, 2004 at 14:34 PST | Permalink | Discuss (1)  

Community Session Tonight: ... wherein we shamelessly plug a fun event tonight ...
Posted by arnold on June 29, 2004 at 16:20 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

The Unexpected Newborn Adult: ... wherein we start gearing up for the upcoming (or incoming) JavaOne conference and wonder how each year the same things can be new, over and over again ...
Posted by arnold on June 24, 2004 at 22:40 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

The Sum of Ant: ...Wherein we examine what ant fundamentally lacks, and possible ways to address the important problem of build control.
Posted by arnold on May 30, 2004 at 19:52 PST | Permalink | Discuss (7)  

Napkin as Reality: ... wherein we wonder why people keep making undone things look done and what we can do about it ...
Posted by arnold on May 27, 2004 at 20:59 PST | Permalink | Discuss (4)  

Culture clash on the platform: ... Wherein I point at an interesting article by Joel Spolsky, a comment by myself, and a nice book web site.
Posted by arnold on December 16, 2003 at 14:38 PST | Permalink | Discuss (2)  

Office design patterns: A neat office for programmers
Posted by arnold on September 28, 2003 at 13:20 PST | Permalink | Discuss (2)  

Duncan Davidson is being kind...: ... wherein we examine whether ant is inherently bloatful ....
Posted by arnold on June 25, 2003 at 07:39 PST | Permalink | Discuss (6)  

MacHack: ... wherein where look at MacHack right before it launches ....
Posted by arnold on June 18, 2003 at 20:49 PST | Permalink | Discuss (2)  

JiniFest: ... wherein we look in a bit at the Jini community party ....
Posted by arnold on June 12, 2003 at 15:08 PST | Permalink | Discuss (3)  

No longer waiting for Gosling: Ah ... nice content ... that feels good
Posted by arnold on June 11, 2003 at 12:49 PST | Permalink | Discuss (1)  

Continuing to wait for Gosling...: ... wherein we wonder what marketing folks are thinking ...
Posted by arnold on June 11, 2003 at 12:47 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

Waiting for Gosling...: ... wherein we ramble about what some new announcements might mean for Java ...
Posted by arnold on June 11, 2003 at 12:46 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

And the message is...: ... wherein we think a tad about the message we're given in today's keynote(s) ...
Posted by arnold on June 10, 2003 at 11:12 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

And they're off!: ... wherein we deconstruct the opening in an historical context. Or something more fun than that t ...
Posted by arnold on June 10, 2003 at 11:09 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

Insomnia is highly underrated...: Which of these conferences is not like the others? JavaOne, of course.
Posted by arnold on June 09, 2003 at 09:28 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)