Monthly Archives: January 2007

Here Goes Nothing (Twice)

Submitted two proposals to the Agile2007 conference, an Experience Report based on my last contract and a Hands On Session based on OCaml and Agile. Wish me luck. Edit: Looks like people who aren’t me and aren’t the review board can’t look at it, so I pulled out the links.

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Ruby on Rails Revisted

After much frustration and time setting up a reasonable Java development environment, I decided to give Ruby on Rails another chance. I’m glad I did. In a quarter of the time it took me to get Tomcat not-quite working with a remote build script, I was able to get an actual website up and running [...]

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A Third Party That Could Get Traction?

Unity08, which I found out about via The Atlantic (my hands-down favorite political magazine).

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Robert Anton Wilson, RIP

http://robertantonwilson.blogspot.com/2007/01/raw-essence.html http://www.reason.com/blog/show/117840.html Y’know, for some reason, I’m actually disappointed in him for dying. I never realized it, but I guess I expected RAW to…well, if not live forever, at least vanish into the wilderness. Whatever he’s become, I hope he’s having fun.

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Yet Another Reason final is Your Friend

IBM on Java’s Object Allocation and Garbage Collection. The upshot of the article is that allocation hasn’t been particularly slow in Java since the 1.2 JVM. Since the business-standard JVM seems to be 1.4.2, that means practically all business applications have this enhancement already in play. One of the major things that will kill your [...]

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