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Rich Burridge

Rich Burridge is a Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems where he has worked for over seventeen years. Currently with the Accessibility
group, he is the creator of the Shared Data Toolkit for Java Technology (JSDT) and a coauthor of the Java Message Service (JMS)
API specification.

 

Weblogs

I've moved my blog to blogs.sun.com

If you were wondering why I've not posted anything in my java.net weblog recently, it's because I've moved over to blogging at the recently...

The Elements of Programming Style.

Back in the late 70's, I was working in England for International Computers Limited on mainframes and programming in a high-level assembly language (no, that's not a contradiction in terms) on a...

When to release.

Here are a few comments and thoughts on various aspects of doing a new release of an open source project. They might not all apply to each project. They might all be obvious. I'm just throwing...

Extensible Open Source projects.

Quite often an open source project is started because somebody wanted some functionality that didn't already exist (or that they weren't aware of). A small project is released and it will either...

The ever-changing book buying process.

I'm an avid book reader. Anything from fiction through to technical books.

Open Source portability.

Recently I've been trying to get various open source applications running on Solaris on x86 machines. These were mostly GNOME applications, but some of them were dependant upon underlying...