Ron Hitchens

Ron Hitchens is a California-based computer geek whose career dates back to the disco era. His first computer was a punched-card mainframe. The last one (so far) is a G4 Mac PowerBook. Not just a good idea, it's Moore's Law.

Ron has done a little of everything but mostly concentrated on Java for the last few years as a consultant, author and employee of failed startups. Ron recently joined Mark Logic Corporation, a successful startup, where he is a Senior Engineer, Editor-In-Chief of the xq:zone Developer Website and discovering the world of XQuery.

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In With The New: New APIs, new algorithms and new programming language. Want more can a geek ask for?
Posted by ronhitchens on May 09, 2008 at 02:46 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)

Hehe, 3-D Stuff Is Cool: Now with 50% more dimensions that 2-D
Posted by ronhitchens on May 08, 2008 at 00:42 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)

You Are Correct, Sir: Writing code that compiles: easy. Writing code that's correct: not so much.
Posted by ronhitchens on May 07, 2008 at 02:56 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)

Make Your Network: Make it to the tech sessions, but make a few friends while you're at it
Posted by ronhitchens on May 06, 2008 at 01:00 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)

It's The JVM, Stupid: Maybe we should start calling it JvmOne
Posted by ronhitchens on May 11, 2007 at 01:56 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)

The Core Problem: CPUs out the Wazoo: You want more cores? Careful what you wish for.
Posted by ronhitchens on May 10, 2007 at 18:19 PST | Permalink | Discuss (3)

JavaOne 2007: I Feel So Mature: Open Sourcce, JavaFX and NetBeans. What Else?
Posted by ronhitchens on May 09, 2007 at 01:41 PST | Permalink | Discuss (1)

Why Should I Bother Going To JavaOne 2007?: This is JavaOne number six for me. Why do I keep coming back?
Posted by ronhitchens on May 07, 2007 at 14:45 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)

If things are so bad, why are things looking good?: Thank you very much, but I already have a job.
Posted by ronhitchens on May 25, 2004 at 00:28 PST | Permalink | Discuss (6)

Cringely on Microsoft, Sun, Java and El Presidente Schwartz: Has Sun been paying too little attention to Microsoft. Or too much?
Posted by ronhitchens on April 21, 2004 at 18:20 PST | Permalink | Discuss (1)

Situated Software: How does the situation affect the nature of the software you build?
Posted by ronhitchens on March 31, 2004 at 17:19 PST | Permalink | Discuss (2)

What I learned at SD Expo West 2004: Trade shows are a waste of time and money, right? Maybe not.
Posted by ronhitchens on March 21, 2004 at 23:50 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)

ESR to McNealy: Let Java Go: Sun says "The open-source model is our friend". Eric says "Let Java go".
Posted by ronhitchens on February 13, 2004 at 17:17 PST | Permalink | Discuss (13)

Sun Wants Middleware To Go Away?: Jonathon Schwartz has declared that middleware is history. But it sounds like Sun is trying the old "it's part of the OS" trick. Where have we heard that before?
Posted by ronhitchens on February 10, 2004 at 11:35 PST | Permalink | Discuss (4)

The End of the Beginning?: When we're no longer writing programs, do we still need programming languages?
Posted by ronhitchens on December 30, 2003 at 02:13 PST | Permalink | Discuss (9)

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