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Distributed SCM: You Don't Get It Until You Got It
Posted by tball on September 13, 2008 at 1:49 AM EDT
Chris Adamson recently blogged, "what are the advantages of distributed SCM, beyond the globe-spanning mega-projects?" I've been hearing that question for a long time; it started whenever a new engineer joined a Sun project and had trouble getting their head around
I was recently interviewing, and found that while some things have changed in the fourteen years since I last jumped companies, a lot is still the same. Recruiters still can barely spell Java or C++, let alone adequately screen a developer with those skills.
It's All Just Bits
Posted by tball on September 2, 2008 at 12:04 AM EDT
JavaFX Preview Releases -- A Chapter Closes
Posted by tball on July 31, 2008 at 8:00 PM EDT
Today the JavaFX Preview SDK released today, marking the end of an incredible year-plus for the JavaFX Script compiler team.
Testing Your Documentation
Posted by tball on April 21, 2008 at 5:14 PM EDT
One responsibility of the JavaFX Script compiler project is to deliver a programming guide for the language.
Divide and Conquer
Posted by tball on April 1, 2008 at 12:07 PM EDT
As anyone following the JavaFX Script compiler project knows, we have a schedule gun to our heads to finish a useful tool quickly, so the interpreter-based prototype shown at last year's JavaOne can be retired.
Elephants and the JavaFX Script Compiler
Posted by tball on November 10, 2007 at 7:42 PM EST
I don't know what it is about elephants, but they sure work well in analogies.
The Birth of the JavaFX Script Compiler
Posted by tball on July 20, 2007 at 9:49 AM EDT
Today a new JavaFX Script compiler incubator project, openjfx-compiler went live. Yes, it has source code, issues, mailing lists and a wiki, but the compiler itself actually does very little right now (although Chris Oliver did offer a nice tease).
Step Back and Wonder
Posted by tball on May 11, 2007 at 2:13 PM EDT
"Are we sufficiently awed by our own technology?" Mark Morford, one of my favorite local (San Francisco) columnists, wrote an essay titled Talkin' To The Steering Wheel which seems like a pertinent closer to JavaOne.
"Advanced Java Refactoring" JavaOne Slides Available
Posted by tball on May 11, 2007 at 1:10 AM EDT
Today I gave a talk at JavaOne titled "Advanced Java Refactoring: Pushing the Envelope" to a packed room, and just pushed a PDF of the slides to the Jackpot project site.
"Open Letter" or Extortion?
Posted by tball on April 10, 2007 at 5:22 PM EDT
Today, Geir Magnusson Jr., the Apache Software Foundation's VP of Java Community Process, issued an "Open Letter" to Sun Microsystems, addressed to Jonathan Schwartz.
