- Philip Greenspun’s Weblog » Microsoft is 2000 times less effective than Google; Yahoo Board seems to be insane – Microsoft is to Yahoo as Time Warner is to (correct answer) AOL.
- Mini-Microsoft: Microsoft’s Yahoo! Acquisition is Bold. And Dumb. – This still seems like a real dumb idea, like a staggering drunk trying to prop himself on an unwilling and lame adversary who wouldn't mind seeing the drunk facedown on the pavement
- IDEA is Now Enterprisey – It’s official, JetBrains raised the price on IDEA. While they claim they have not raised prices in 5 years, this is not the complete story.
- Smoke and Ice: Um… Has anyone seen JBoss? – Ok, can anyone explain why JBoss seams to have dropped off the map? The 5.0 version of the JBoss Application Server has been in beta for over a year! What's going on?
- InfoQ: From Tags to Riches: Going from Web 1.0 to Flex – James Ward and Shashank Tiwari walk through replacing a Web 1.0 interface with a rich Adobe Flex user interface. In the article, they outline the steps of updating the open source Pentaho Suite dashboard with a Web 2.0 dashboard:
- java.net: Query by Slice, Parallel Execute, and Join: A Thread Pool Pattern in Java – By combining all the above concepts, it is possible to abstract out a Thread Pool pattern in the JDK for your daily parallel processing solutions. This article will showcase code that can be built and run using the JDK along with your favorite database.
- IntelliJ IDEA Blog » Blog Archive » External Annotations – There are several cases when direct annotating code is not advisable: for example, project is shared between team members that use different IDEs, or you work with library classes. That does not mean you can’t make use of these annotations, though – w
- Getting Started with Grails – Infoq ebook – Grails is an open-source, rapid web application development framework that provides a super-productive full-stack programming model based on the Groovy scripting language and built on top of Spring, Hibernate, and other standard Java frameworks. Many org
- Safari is about to get crazy fast | Computerworld Blogs – What's so interesting about this is that Safari is already a fast browser. While Microsoft's products are getting bulkier and slower, Apple's products are getting leaner and faster.
- 20 minutes or so on why I am 4Barack (Lessig Blog) – I wasn't going to do this, but then someone ask me to do it, and someone else told me (to my horror — not that it would be insane for anyone, but insane for her) that she was for Clinton. So consider this my precinct captain duty for the lessig blog.
In the kingdom of hope, there is no winter.
