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Ron Hitchens

Ron Hitchens is a California-based computer geek whose career dates
back to the disco era. His first computer was a punched-card
mainframe. The last one (so far) is a G4 Mac PowerBook. Not just a
good idea, it's Moore's Law.

Ron has done a little of everything but mostly concentrated on Java
for the last few years as a consultant,
author and employee
of failed startups.
Ron recently joined Mark Logic Corporation,
a successful startup, where he is a Senior Engineer, Editor-In-Chief of the
xq:zone Developer Website and
discovering the world of XQuery.

 

Weblogs

In With The New

Thursday was an interesting day, but tiring. The third day of a conference always seems to be the roughest in terms of comfort level.

Hehe, 3-D Stuff Is Cool

I don't get to do a lot of whizzy graphical stuff in my day-to-day work. I mostly do the typical back-end, multi-threaded server kind of thing. I spend most of my time thinking about API design...

You Are Correct, Sir

The big announcements today were centered around JavaFX and Blu-Ray, as expected. Neil Young was entertaining (I guess that's not surprising, he is an entertainer after all). There was the...

Make Your Network

Holy smokes, is it JavaOne again already? Didn't we just do this a few months ago?

It's The JVM, Stupid
The Core Problem: CPUs out the Wazoo
JavaOne 2007: I Feel So Mature
Why Should I Bother Going To JavaOne 2007?
If things are so bad, why are things looking good?

Offshoring accelerating, layoffs left and right, doom, gloom, oh me, oh my.

And yet, I just landed a terrific job at a great startup (thanks Jason)....

Cringely on Microsoft, Sun, Java and El Presidente Schwartz

I found this week's Robert X. Cringely column especially interesting. They're always interesting, but this one is about...

Situated Software

A reference to this article by Clay Shirky was posted to a Patterns mailing list I...

What I learned at SD Expo West 2004
>I was lucky enough to spend all of last week at Software Development Expo West ( href="http://www.sdexpo.com/"
>SD West >) in Santa Clara, California. I usually...
ESR to McNealy: Let Java Go

Eric S. Raymond has posted an open letter to Sun on the topic of open source and Java. With typical ESR directness, he tells Sun...

Sun Wants Middleware To Go Away?

Java Developer Journal is running a press release, er, article about Sun's latest marcom that "Middleware is History". I suppose...

The End of the Beginning?

I love Java. I love writing Java code. I've even
written a Java book. I've used zillions of
programming languages and Java is the...