Last week, Daniel Steinberg wrote that he attended a local JUG meeting to hear Bruce Tate speak about his book “Better, Faster, Lighter Java”. I was fortunate enough to be at the same meeting. Bruce's presentation was interesting, and sparked a fair amount of interaction between him and the audience. Of course, this made the time fly by all too quickly, but Bruce was still able to...
It started as a typical morning. I was three days behind schedule on a one day project, but hoping to finish it by late afternoon. Of course, I’d no sooner gotten into the code, trying to recapture yesterday’s flow, when the phone rang. The next minute, I was off to my project manager’s office, no doubt to receive yet another reason to delay my current assignment even more...
