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I've had enough of JRoller, you're only reading this because you're subscribed via RSS and are a lazy turd. If you were clever, you'd know that you need to change your subscription to http://feeds....

The last talk I went to today is Enterprise App Mashup: Architecting the Future by Eugene Ciurana.
Of course, the talk is as fluffy and pointless as I had expected. I walked in late because the lik...

Sometimes I'm a bit of a glutton for punishment. You'd think that after attending so many conferences, seeing so many JPA drivel talks, I'd stop. Alas, I can't seem to help myself. and am dismayed ...

Depressingly, despite making a somewhat valiant attempt to get enough sleep, the night before TSS ended with the usual mix of drinking, stumbling about helplessly, and stay up until 3:30am. Last ye...

The fact that XML is, basically, a steaming pile of goatshit is not news. Many many people know this now, yet you have an awful number of people eager to grab a hold of some xml and perform deviant...

Well well well, it's no surprise to anyone, but Marc Fleury has left the building.
Good fucking riddance, that's what I say. Regardless of what he did or didn't do, he certainly made out like a ban...

For anyone following JavaBlogs, you've probably skimmed over a bunch of Sri Lankan shirtlifters cooing recently about a highly dodgy benchmark that somehow proves that Axis2 is faster than XFire. T...

For some inexplicable reason, I'm one of the external reviewers for this year's JavaOne EE and Web tracks. The one thing that's utterly perplexing about it is the dire quality of some submissions.
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The whole '5 things that make me look cool' thing is getting out of hand. It's insidious and evil and idiotic, all at the same time.
For one thing, who on earth would give a flying fuck about all o...

It's funny how whenever there's a whiff of money in the air, all the shysters and scamsters come out of the woodwork to try and make a quick buck. What's more depressing is how often it actually wo...