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As amateur foodies, one of our goals during our trip to JavaOne this year was to sample the fine cuisine San Francisco had to offer. Our initial strategy was acknowledged as stupid: leave the hotel without advice and without our travel-guide book, and try to find some good food by wandering around. This returned some mediocre [...]

I’ve been insanely busy; here is the quick update, in close-to chronological order: Our t-shirt hurling machine finally cleared customs, and we spent about 16 hours on the weekend re-assembling it and trying to get it to work again. Monday was 8 hours on my feet in the Cenqua booth (booth 417, drop by today if [...]

Have arrived at hotel in San Francisco, for next weeks JavaOne. Shower and change of undies helping stave off jet lag. Now busily trying to create a wifi network between our two hotel rooms. More news as it happens.

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. …

I’m sure we are all aware of the Apache webserver’s dominance. But Apache is just not httpd, it is a vibrant community of software projects. Well, I think we can just let this graph speak for itself: