Throwing the shout-out to the Cutlassian Privateers: yo ho ho and a bottle of... um...

As enterprise programmers, we don't "program" quite so much any more. What we do is write systems, fairly small units that leverage libraries to do stuff.

I'm a bit miffed. I apologize. Really. I want a new aggregator, I'm really a bit busy to write one, and I keep thinking that somewhere we (as a community) could write something that ended up not being a ton of crap.

While at JavaOne 2007, I recorded a podcast with Gordon Jackson from DataSynapse, an application virtualization vendor. We talked about what application virtualization meant, and the value that virtualization offers developers and deployers.

Would you be willing to test out instantiation of a namespace in JNDI on Glassfish startup? I can't figure out for the life of me why I can't get JMS resources to survive a restart.

Arun Gupta finally got me to fulfill my promise and try out JAX-WS again -- and I found that he was right, JAX-WS was working exactly as I'd hoped it would.

I find myself really missing the days when men were men, rabbits were rabbits, and Glassfish started all of its services when it needed to so that it could connect jms/foo references to valid queues and connection factories when I expected them to.

Kathy Sierra's situation with threats sent to her blog is intolerable, but sometimes the reaction to it - being applied to sites found unpleasant - is wrong too. Let's ALL grow up some.

As I'm watching my father surrender rather quickly to a blastoma: treasure the time you have with the people you love. The memories you have, the impact you have on your people... those last forever and are a huge part of what makes you who you are.

Five things you probably didn't know about me because you didn't realise how much you didn't care but you probably do know how much you didn't care now...

Tim Bray posted "Two Approaches to Journalism" in which he said, among other things:TheServerSide.com ran a story whose title was a lie, without talking to me or anyone, presumably looking for flameage, and they got some.Well, Tim, in all honesty, I

Apparently, with Vista, MS is going to allow people to change Minesweeper's mines to flowers, instead. Let me please add my voice to the chorus: WHAT THE....

Setting up Jackrabbit's shared deployment model in Glassfish is trivial. Here's how I did it, and good on the Jackrabbit people for actually making it easy to log in.

I have yet to see where the EJB3 references tell me how to properly *look up* EJB3 session beans from a nonmanaged class.

At a recent JUG, Matt Quinlan dropped by to show off JBoss' clustering capabilities. Really neat stuff: just enable the clustering, start the servers, and run. It doesn't install that way in the real world, but golly, it works.

I thought I'd explain the length of time since I've last blogged to a wondrous thing: Family 2.0! Yes, that's right: a new edition of my family! Congratulations are welcomed, esp. in the form of, well, money.

I've been playing with Glassfish for a while now, for a number of reasons, but one of them is that I wanted to start evaluating Glassfish itself, which forms the basis for Sun's AppServer 9.

Adobe is running a new beta program for JRun. That's newsworthy, right? So why didn't I publish it on TheServerSide? I wanted to, honest... but I couldn't, not without providing a disservice to the readers.

I like Sun, I like Scott, I like Jonathan... I'm just a liker, not an arguer, I guess. But I see Jonathan's promotion to CEO as good primarily because I think it makes transition to the man who will save Sun easier.

This was originally going to be 2007's April Fool's joke, but let's be real: my memory doesn't last that long.

I'm annoyed by Solaris 9 + my linksys wireless router. I can't figure out how to get my solaris 9 machine to get and use a static IP!

I've been struggling to work out how to explain to various framework authors and supporters why I think what they are telling people is not right, or why the frameworks are flawed, with very limited success. But I think I know the secret now.

I have a project where I need to do something constantly, roughly every minute. There are a lot of ways for me to do this with external libraries, but I want the EJB3 spec to enable me to initialize timers without involving application code.

I've been playing with the Netbeans 5.5 preview; here are more little, uh, things I've noticed about it so far.

CIMEntertainment offered me the privilege of reading a draft of "The Tesla Testament" last week. He's been dribbling hints about it to me for a while, even letting me read the first chapter a while back, so I had to take the opportunity.