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John D. Mitchell

John D. Mitchell is the Chief Architect of Krugle -- a search engine for developers. Along with developing and rescuing distributed enterprise systems, John advises investors and executives on
technology and high-tech companies. Over the past 15 years, he has been
the CTO of ElasticMedia, HealthLogic.com, jGuru and the MageLang Institute.
John co-authored Making
Sense of Java: A Guide for Managers and the Rest of Us. He was the
founder and contributing editor of the Tips &
Tricks column at JavaWorld. John writes extensively on complex
systems, development processes, computer languages and protocols, open
source and intellectual property, and technological business risk
management.

 

Articles

A Look Back at JavaOne
This year's JavaOne conference attendence was about the same size as last year, with about 12,000 attendees, but the mood was upbeat. People are moving forward to make things happen. Barring some new huge shock to the system, author John Mitchell is taking this as a leading indicator that we've...

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JPC: x86 Emulator on the JVM

Okay, I must be slipping... I can't believe that I've either totally missed this or completely forgotten about it:

FindBugs in Anger

If you aren't already using Findbugs then hopefully you've at least...

JavaOne Day 4: Urgent Public Health Warning: Stomach Flu
Just received an emailed notice:

The JavaOne conference team has been notified by the San Francisco Department of Public Health about an identified outbreak of a virus in the San...

JavaOne 2008: Day 1, The Good, The Bad, and The Lame

Another year, another JavaOne.

It's always great to see so many old friends again.

JaveOne 2007, Enterprise Search-Driven Developement

One of the most exciting things at the show this year is that my company, Krugle, announced the beta of an enterprise search...

JaveOne 2007, Keaton

Keaton is a new java.net project for integrating Apple's QTKit with Java. I.e., make it possible for Java developers to leverage the latest Quicktime...

JaveOne 2007, Java Puzzlers Points Out Problems with Kitchen Sink

Josh Bloch and Neal Gafter have been doing their wonderful Java Puzzlers shtick at JavaOne for the last 4 years. This year, Bill Pugh has stepped in for Neal to keep the puzzlers puzzling.

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JaveOne 2007, Where's Apple?

As noted by various people, including Malcolm Davis, there's a lot of Apple laptops in evidence at the...

JaveOne 2007, Community One

Sun is, as everybody knows, struggling to get mindshare around their products. This is especially true as they try to get uptake as they open source more of their stuff -- such as Solaris.

JavaOne 2007, Startup Camp 2

Is this really JavaOne? Walking around downtown San Francisco in May wearing a t-shirt and shorts and not freezing to death? Record setting heat must be boiling my brain!

JavaOne 2006: Questions

As JavaOne 2006 officially starts today, there are lots of excited attendees floating around with lots of questions in their heads: How do I write Java code to deal with all of these new multi-...

McNealy out, Schwartz in as Sun CEO

Yes, it's true. Scott "Scooter" McNealy is stepping down as CEO of Sun Microsystems. Sun may be doing better than...

Krugle is hiring

Yes, it's true that I've been lax in my blogging so far this year because I've been working as the Chief Architect of Krugle.

Tests, Specifications, Typing, Oh my!

There's some interesting discussions taking place on the nature of tests. Brian Marick distinguishes between tests as...

GPL v3, draft 1 released

The Free Software Foundation has released the first public draft of version 3 of the Gnu Public License. The...

Humane interfaces, simplisticity, and domain languages

Elliotte Rusty Harold has touched off a small war in...

Piss Poor Web Security Approaches

Pete Freitag writes up 20 ways to Secure your Apache Configuration. Now, all 20 tips are useful to...

Sun to open-source SPARC architecture

Sun's open-source evangelist, Simon Phipps says that "the Verilog source code, tools and more behind the UltraSPARC T1...

Code Naked

Finding yourself naked, in public, is a dream/nightmare that many people have. It could just be me but when I was first starting to program, I had a nightmare that not only was I coding naked but...

DSLs feelin' groovy (or, graduating from elementary school)

Ben Galbraith has posted the first of a series of blog entries about...

Sun nukes SISSL

Sun's "Chief Open Source Officer", Simon Phipps, just...

What does 99.999% reliability really mean?

Michael Levin posted a Java coding...

GCC turns 4.0

The GNU folks have released version 4.0 of the venerable GCC compiler with built-in support for the C, C++, Objective-C, Ada, Fortran, and Java programming...

Communicating Conundrum

Kim Burchett posted a great story illustrating the Misunderstandings that happen in the software...

Metcalfe's Law broken

Way back when, Bob Metcalfe, one of the creators of ethernet, coined a formula that says that the value of a network grows on the order of n2. During the internet boom, that...

Steele Fortress

Guy Steele is leading a group to build a new programming language called Fortress. In homage to the old SATs, Fortress is to Fortran as Java...

Googlezon

EPIC 2014 is an 8 minute, Flash movie from the year 2014 about a very 1984-ish outcome to the juggernaut that is Google.

Hilarious, in a...

Belief of Control

Well, I am a sucker for discussions about risk and software development. There are some interesting tidbits in Tiwana and Keil's:...

Anatomy of Insanity

CNet reports that Microsoft is offering $5 (yes, 5) for data loss due to it's...

Use less milk?

My little girl has this habit of pouring way too much milk into her bowl of cereal. Then, she whines and complains when we tell her to drink up the extra milk after the cereal is gone so it doesn'...