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I was reminded by BMC today of the beginnings of my working life. He and OJB were outstanding mentors for me in my padwan years. I still use their advice every day, particularly the most useful insight BMC ever imparted to me: Don’t mix your busies and your busies. I interviewed for that job in late [...]

A bunch of us are going to JavaOne this year, and we’ll even have a booth where we can pimp our wares. Now that it is just over a month away, it is time to gear up on our final preparations. We hope to have some premium swag, so make sure you drop by and see us. [...]

A recent IM conversation: matt: I think I added javadoc for the funny ones conor: k, I’ll look a bit more conor: who needs javadoc when I have you matt: ah. very true

I did a presentation at CJUG tonight on AJAX. We had a good turnout, the talk went well — and of course there was beer and pizza (thanks Sun and Borland!). There is nothing like putting together a talk to force yourself to learn a technology: I used DWR for my examples, its a very capable and easy to [...]

I upgraded my Apple PowerBook1 to OS X 10.4 (Tiger) this week, which has been quite a feast of new eye-candy, if nothing else. But sadly, Emacs stopped working. This didn’t seem too bad, since I use IDEA for most things anyway, and this gave me a chance to try out BBEdit. But I didn’t realize how [...]

(Firstly, I apologize if your feedreader is now full my old blog entries, as I’ve just upgraded my site and all the guids will have changed.)

I spent the weekend converting madbean.com to WordPress. Previous to that, it used to run on my own home-brew site/blog generation system. …