I'll be interviewing James Gosling one week from today, my fifth annual interview with the creator of Java. I'm collecting ideas for the interview.… [read]

eWeek published an interesting series of articles today on the ongoing integration of Rational Software Corp. into IBM. Ration... [Java, 735 characters] [read]

I have been thinking of getting into JDO, but am wondering what is the status on the JSR and JDO in general. According to reports on JDOCentral, JDO it is undergoing a re-write,… [read]

http://www.eclipseuml.com/Omondo [1] has a free UML editor for use within Eclipse. All 9 diagrams will be supported in the free version soon. [1] http://www.eclipseuml.com/ [read]

Matrix reloaded Name calling at Sam's Intertwingly about CSS. Mark Pilgrim's concluding remark "Instead only try to realize the truth. There is no trunk.… [read]

David Mertz wrote ONLamp.com: A Primer on Python Metaclass Programming Metaclass Programming allows you to do AOP in Python.… [read]

For those who regularly visit the weblog, you've probably noticed the site has been considerably redesigned. There are a few bugs that I still need to work out, but the general look and feel is set.… [read]

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I was charged with the challenge of creating a highly usable filtering interface for Informedia. When a user does a search and gets a large resulting set of video documents,… [read]

Based on a referral from fellow blogger Matt, I've been tagged to review Manning's upcoming Struts Cookbook, by Ted Husted and Danilo Gurovich.… [read]

Get it here [1]. I use JDOM as my XML parser of choice. [1] http://www.jdom.org [read]

Soup up blog lookUsing CSS-spice and tips from the book of Eric Meyer I was able to improve this blog's view. My primary foucs was on the bolg entries, which are now langer displayed.… [read]

Notes from the Chandler Demo is an excellent introduction to Chandler. I tried their release 0.1 and while rough it is very promising. The Notes explain why the platform they build is promising.… [read]

Phew...I've been working on porting a J2EE app from WebLogic [1] 7 backwards to WebLogic 6.1. Made some good headway and it looks like it's working now.… [read]

James has something to say about the JSR: Anyways, back to the AOP JSR.… [read]

$1.00 a song, instead of $.10 a song. New 15GB and 30GB iPods and Music Store. [Marc's Voice] [read]

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I submitted this bug to Apple through the proper channels several months back, but I didn't get word back, and neither has it been fixed. Basically,… [read]

War driving may be legal there soon.... [read]