nine times out of ten the following screnario plays out when my wife and i go to a friend's party: we show up and start to mingle and introduce ourselves or get introduced around by the host. we end up standing with a few people and the typical chit chat/small talk begins: ———- "Hi, I [...]
Read More »As a career software guy, it might be surprising to learn that I started out in Electrical Engineering, a mostly analog discipline then (slightly after the ice age thaw) before falling in love with computers and software. When I graduated from college there was maybe one hardware job for every 100 software jobs – and [...]
Read More »This lady travels in her pijamas: If You Can Shoot an Elephant in Your PJ’s, You Can Fly in Them – New York Times. I think that's a great idea! On long flights I try to be as comfortable as possible so I usually end up wearing a sweatsuit. The closest I came to wearing [...]
Read More »A while back I posted about the open source calendar I created. Well, today I found another cool and useful site. Confabb will let you search a huge database of conferences by keyword. It includes details about the conferences and links to their websites. I searched on "open source" and found a whole list: [...]
Read More »Do yourself a favor if you are developing JSF applications. Have a look at FacesTrace. I certainly wish that I looked at it earlier. FacesTrace is a JSF component that allows developers to have visibility into the JSF request lifecycle. It also provides some timing information as well as the ability to view the information [...]
Read More »Cheesy movies are so quotable. The "landmark" news that Microsoft and Novell are going to be collaborating reminds me of a scene from Ghostbusters. Dr. Peter Venkman: This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions. Mayor: What do you mean, "biblical"? Dr Ray Stantz: What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real [...]
Read More »To continue my "Good or bad for open source?" post I'd like to talk about Oracle's news, Oracle Announces The Same Enterprise Class Support For Linux. Oracle announced that they are supporting RedHat Linux, minus the logos, plus additional bugfixes and bugs ported back to previous versions. From my experience, I bet it's that last [...]
Read More »Dana Blankenhorn just posted about Rice University's Connexxions project, an open source publishing platform. I've been following it for a while but I missed the latest news – they are going to be publishing the text of community college textbooks online for free and offering print versions for $30. That should help defray costs immensely [...]
Read More »I finally found a humanist organization I want to participate in. Too many humanist organizations I have seen are radicals; they spend all their time complaining about the current politics and religions and not enough time promoting humanism. Humanist organizations need to concentrate on making humanism more visible and more viable to the general population. [...]
Read More »I am amazed by spam. Initially, I was irritated by it. But, the more I get, the more amazed I am. If people, somewhere did not respond to it, then it would not work… so, the amazing thing is that someone out there really believes that stuff… I get a variety of spam.. By [...]
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