This was my first JavaOne. At first I was amazed at the spectacle of it all. Logistically there's a lot going on. When I signed in I was sent to about 6 different locations before I had all of my credentials and gear. Despite the bumps it's the place to be if you're in the [...]
Read More »This is an ultra-brief, brass-tacks, rubber meets road description of what Sun's decision to open source Java means for the average developer. Someone asked a question about what open sourcing Java meant and I was surprised I didn't have a good answer. So not much opinion or independent thought here, this is just a summary [...]
Read More »I used to have street cred. I was a hardcore VIM user. When I was still in college and new to Unix I would find some cheezy editor like pico and stick with that for coding. Finally I ended up on an HP-UX box with nothing but vi. When the sys-admin told me it'd take [...]
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