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After a quick visit to the Apple store, I spent the morning at the CommunityOne event (ala Netbeans day). The first general session included a chat by Jonathan Schwartz and Rich Green. Although they jumped around a little, they kept coming back to “Java is too hard” (Jonathan’s words). I suppose that it is a reasonable (or [...]

I work 99.9% of the time from home. But I keep in mostly constant contact with the gang through IRC and IM. This of course brings with it the usual accompaniment of standard (lol, rofl, bbiab, ack, nak) and non-standard (co=cool, swee=sweet, mo=mos=’o=morning) shorthand phrases. Inevitably, at least for me, this physical-isolation but virtual-colocation has lead to me tuning down [...]

Just arrived at San Francisco again, for this years JavaOne. Bee-autiful day here, just enough time for a quick blog from the hotel room before heading out for drinks.

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Closure Proposal 0.2

In the last couple of weeks, I’ve been pinged a few times by cow orkers in the FishEye development team who were complaining about a mysterious JDK1.5 dependency in our code. Their development builds were breaking on a JDK1.4 JVM with an error like: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: java.lang.StringBuffer.append(Ljava/lang/CharSequence;)Ljava/lang/StringBuffer; The sweat started pouring the first time I got that complaint; [...]

While reading the computer section of today’s Canberra Times (10 July 2006, page 14), I spotted this little gem. The talent pool in Canberra must be drying up and we are now importing aliens. Not that there is anything wrong with that. Hopefully they will turn up the the next CJUG meeting. Lets all welcome @^qebdafkb G^hqj ^k [...]

The last two days at JavaOne have been hectic. Tech Sessions I managed to get to two Technical Sessions this year (up from one last year). The first was a talk about scaling applications using a shared heap, by Ari Zilka of Terracotta. There were some interesting ideas in there, so afterwards I went to talk to some of [...]

So considering the last two days, I began today with much trepidation. But luckily the day in the booth went very well (our monitors turned up earlier this morning). Okay, it went well until Pete spilt beer over one of our keyboards; but that was at the end of the day, so I don’t count that as a [...]

48 hours after the last aborted attempt at reaching JavaOne, we are in SF and have our conference passes. But oh no, it could not be that simple. We get to our hotel by about 4pm, and we need to have the booth ready by 11am tomorrow. And UA lost our fucking Apple Cinema Displays [...]

The plan was to fly out from Sydney to San Francisco today. The plane was fueled, the travelers boarded. The aircraft taxied out to the runway, takeoff speed was reached, and the front wheel may have even left the tarmac. Then some bloody bird flew straight into engine two, the pilots hit the breaks, and [...]