From the monthly archives:

September 2005

Happy Birthday Honey!

September 28, 2005

Happy Birthday to my beautiful wife – She's so awesome that she let me go to BEAWorld on her birthday after I missed our wedding anniversary for JavaOne. She rocks and I am the luckiest man in the whole world to be married to her – Happy Birthday honey.

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BEAWorld – Day 2 Keynote

September 28, 2005

Mark Carges, the CTO of BEA Systems took the stage as part of the morning keynote. He started off by talking about SOA, Service Infrastructure and AquaLogic. Mark also mentioned the BEA Communication platform that has SIP support built-in and it will be interesting to see where this platform ends up as VoIP [...]

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BEA buys M7

September 28, 2005

The big news out of this morning BEAWorld Keynote is that BEA is buying M7 and the NitroX IDE. I guess they are serious about Eclipse and the evolution of WebLogic Workshop

M7, NitroX, Workshop, BEAWorld

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Blog Search Engineathon

September 28, 2005

Scoble inspired me to take a closer look at the results generated by the Feedsters, Technorati, Google and IceRockets of the world. Since I'm at BEAWorld 2005 this week and I just blogged about it, I figure I'll see if I can find any other bloggers talking about the conference. Here are the [...]

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BEAWorld – Day 1

September 28, 2005

The first day at BEA was pretty cool – The day started as usual as Marge Breya, the Chief Marketing Officer playing emcee. Some of the attendee stats from BEAWorld 2005 are:

1000 architects

500 IT folks

500 Developers

00+ IT Management

Marge got things started by bringing on Alfred Chuang, the CEO of BEA Systems and he gave [...]

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BEAWorld – Day 0

September 28, 2005

I finally make it into Santa Clara for BEAWorld after spending 8 hrs loitering around Chicago's O'Hare airport. I guess I am pledging to never fly United again as their treatment of customer's just sucks. The flight that I was on had some mechanical issues and so all the passengers got bumped from [...]

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SOA Keynote Panel Discussion

September 22, 2005

I am going to BEAWorld and I get to participate in the keynote panel discussion about Service-Orientated Architecture (SOA). This is going to be exciting as SOA is the AJAX of the services world. Like AJAX, SOA is nothing new but it is getting a lot of attention because [...]

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Daily Del.icio.us for Sep 21, 2005

September 21, 2005

Jencks 1.0 Released: Spring based Message Driven POJOs » Spring based Message Driven POJOs
Enterprise Systems | Web Services: Where Identity Management Goes From Here » SAML, Liberty, WS-Federation: Where Identity Management Goes From Here

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Daily Del.icio.us for Sep 20, 2005

September 20, 2005

Access Windows Performance Monitor counters from Java, Part 2 » NSClient4J – Access Windows Performance Monitor counters from Java
simonsays: Software Craftsmanship » Software Craftsmanship: From Apprentice to Journeyman guidance for the aspiring software craftsman
» Google Pulls The Other Leg With Secure Access InsideGoogle » part of the Blog News Channel » Google's secure [...]

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Daily Del.icio.us for Sep 19, 2005

September 19, 2005

Linux.com | Securing MySQL » Securing MySQL at Linux.com
MySQL Gotchas » MySQL Gotchas via WebLog Tools Collection

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Daily Del.icio.us for Sep 17, 2005

September 17, 2005

java.net: Receive Application Errors via Yahoo Messenger » Receive Application Errors via Yahoo Messenger
Online Extra: Steve Ballmer Shrugs Off The Critics » BusinessWeek interviews Steve Ballmer
BEA seeks open source accommodation | InfoWorld | News | 2005-09-16 | By Paul Krill » BEA pledges support for free software efforts

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Daily Del.icio.us for Sep 14, 2005

September 14, 2005

techno.blog("Dion"): Implicit Local Variables and Lambda comes to C# » Implicit Local Variables and Lambda comes to C# via Dion & Ben
Married with children; C# 3.0: Relational Language Operatings, Type Inference, and More » C# 3.0: Relational Language Operatings, Type Inference, and More
Google Blog Search » Google Blog Search – Search technology focused on blogs
Singapore [...]

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Ruby Ruby Ruby Ruby!!

September 14, 2005

After playing with Ruby for a while now, I am starting to play with Rails to see what the buzz is all about. Here are some interesting resources in addition to the Rails Wiki:

Rolling with Ruby on Rails by Curt Hibbs — The Ruby community is abuzz about Rails, a web application framework [...]

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Daily Del.icio.us for Sep 12, 2005

September 12, 2005

A List Apart: Articles: JavaScript Logging » JavaScript Logging
Recycled Knowledge: Tutorials at XML 2005 » RESTful Web Services: building them without WSDL, SOAP, or tears
Getting Started With JasperReports
J2EE Programming with Passion! Class Root Page » Free J2EE Programming Online Course and tutorial
TWiki . Javawsxml . Rome » New version of Rome – Still no OPML [...]

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Daily Del.icio.us for Sep 11, 2005

September 11, 2005

Developing a J2EE Architecture with Rational Software Architect Using the Rational Unified Process
Google Firefox Extensions
Sam Ruby: The Case for Dynamic Languages » The Case for Dynamic Languages: Ruby
Random thoughts » Rickard Oberg rolls his own WRSP implementation
A Java Geek's Diary : Weblog » Principle of SOA
Otaku, Cedric's weblog: Why unit tests are disappearing » Why [...]

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Going to BEAWorld

September 8, 2005

I'm making my annual pilgrimage to everything WebLogic or rather BEA at the conference formally known as BEA eWorld. For some reason, it's now called BEAWorld and its being held on 5 cities all over the world. I am attending the one in Santa Clara, just outside of San Francisco at the end [...]

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Spring AOP & AspectJ come together?

September 6, 2005

Are Spring AOP and AspectJ coming together? Will AspectJ become Spring AOP or vica versa? Interesting developments going on in the AOP space lately. First Jonas Bonér and now Adrian Colyer – Jonas is founder of the AspectWerkz AOP project which recently merged with AspectJ has left BEA and is joining startup [...]

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Ruby On Rails at the Tipping Point?

September 2, 2005

Cobbie just sent me a link to David Geary's article entitled Tipping Rails. David is wondering out loud if Ruby on Rails has reached a tipping point and is about to break out and garner mass adoption. I don't really have any opinion on this topic but I do know that Ruby [...]

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JRockit Testimonials

September 1, 2005

Looks like my JRockit Testimonial made it on dev2dev.bea.com along with my goofy picture. Yikes – Sure to scare people away from JRockit now
The picture is courtesy of Marquette University and the Master of Science in Computing program

JRockit, BEA, Marquette

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WebLogic 9.0 – First look at the GA release

September 1, 2005

BEA released the latest version (v9.0) of their flagship application server, WebLogic in early August. I have been playing with the latest release of WLS to see what's new, what's cool and what are the features that will make me push to upgrade ASAP.
In addition to J2SE 1.5 or Java SE 5.0 [...]

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