Uptime posting
I posted another article on uptime. It's part 2 in my review of the IBM developerWorks series on moving from Windows to-Linux. Not that I'm saying you should read my…
New Article up on Uptime
I have posted a new article in the Newbie section on uptime. It's mostly there to bring attention to a newbie series up on the IBM Linux developerWorks site. I…
Last Night’s JavaMUG Presentation
Last night was the monthly meeting of the Java Metroplex User’s Group, of which I belong and also serve on the board. I was both looking forward to and dreading the meeting. I dreaded it because we were holding yearly elections and I was afraid they would drag on and on and on. Boy was I pleasantly surprised at how smooth and quick things went. Congrats to the current board for such a smooth election and congrats to the newly elected board members.
The reason I was looking forward to the meeting was that this month’s speaker was Glenn Vanderburg. I have seen him speak at previous JavaMUG meetings and at last years Lone Star Software Symposium. His presentations are both strong technically and delivered with some humor.
Last night Glenn spoke on the new features coming with J2SE 1.5. He spent a large chunk of the presentation on generics, and then covered a number of the other 1.5 additions.
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What can I say…
my beloved Texas Aggies got their asses kicked. Sorry if that's too vulgar for you , but it was a textbook ass kicking. If I have to say something positive…
What are you reading?
I picked up 3 books last week. The one I'm reading right now, Professional Apache Tomcat, I got at Borders for 50% off. I would have rather bought Tomcat: The…
I’m so ashamed…
... and I feel I have to "come clean". My wife just made me watch The Bachelor with her. Actually, she makes me watch it with her every week. You…