Powered by 802.11 and my viao with its duck-taped powercord to prevent
hibernation loops, I'm basking in a balmy California midnight outside
on my deck, coding away, fighting off an onslaught of bugs.
Now you'd think that since I've worked on the JDK for many years that
I'm referring to knats in the software. But I'm talking about real 6
legged creatures with wings and antennaes longer than...
Rewinding back to JavaOne2000, a few of us on the Swing team put
together a session called "WebAwareWare" (forgive us, this predated
"Web Services" as a household name). In the session we
built a rich client version of a little web application called "Blogger",
written by a couple guys at Pyra Software. When I first learned of
"blogging", my first...
