Matt Blodgett recently twittered about developers and private offices.  “I wonder if mgmt knows how bad they are killing productivity by doing that? Are they ignorant, or just stupid?” was a followup twitter I got from him, and I started replying.  Twitter’s too limiting for what I was trying to say, so I’ll say it [...]

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I had a good conversation with Joe Fiorini about balancing his daily work in .NET with a passion and enthusiasm for Ruby on Rails.  Have a listen.

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In the religion and language survey,first written about here, we’ve already got 2800 entries in less than 24 hours.  I’d like to leave this open for at least another week, but am also interested in working with some of you out there to parse the data and come up with some reports.  If you’ve got [...]

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Got an interesting reply from Mikeal Rogers on the subject of copyright, open source, contributor license agreements, and such.  His post was in reply to a recent podcast from codemash on these subjects.  It’s a bit much to reprint here, so I’ve linked to the forum post.  Lots to think about.

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I’ve put up a small survey which I’m hoping will help me get an idea of whether there’s any connection between computer language choice and religious identification.  Do Catholics gravitate towards Java?  Are Python users more likely to be Baptist?  It’s basically a ‘fun’ thing - I don’t claim it’ll be scientific, but I’m still [...]

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I’ve been working with a couple guys on a Grails-based project in my spare time, but I bunked off today and wrote something else. Much smaller in scale, and inspired a bit by my recent twittering, I put together tinyPollr.com. Yes, the name is a dumb ripoff of flickr - (”big deal, you [...]

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I’ve had a love/hate relationship with Sun for many moons.  They give us OpenOffice, Java, etc. on the one hand, but then come up with byzantine licensing structures (CDDL was Sun, right?  and SCSL was for sure) and get antagonistic towards JBoss and others on occasion.  Ultimately, trying to ascribe a single mindset to Sun [...]

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Sun is acquiring MySQL

OK, well, I thought I’d be able to find a few more interesting tidbits, but these two are interesting enough to me for a Wednesday morning.  Obviously the Sun/MySQL thing is big - will they use the acronym SPAM for Solaris/PHP/Apache/MySQL?  I claim “first post” on inventing that acronym, although I’m sure [...]

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Brian Goetz is keynoting at codemash on the topic of concurrency.  I’ve intuitively known that concurrency and threading is hard.  I come from mostly a PHP world, and butted heads with some Java devs a few years ago because I built something in PHP that they were building in Java.  “But PHP doesn’t have threads!” [...]

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I had considered submitting a codemash proposal about “Grails for PHP developers”.  I was counseled out of this by a certain someone as it was considered “too niche”.  I probably could have renamed it “Grails for non-Java developers”, and submitted it.  I think I will do that next year (or keep the PHP tag in [...]

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