Monthly Archive: August 2010

Originally posted 2007-09-02 16:38:03 I spent the morning of Day Two with David Geary, JSF, Seam, Facelets and Ajax4jsf. The session came in two parts, and I could have stayed for a part three...

Originally posted 2007-08-25 02:59:27 I’m at the Sheraton Four Points Hotel in Orlando, Florida, at No Fluff Just Stuff. Both an offsite management work meeting all morning and an accident on I-4 delayed my...

Originally posted 2007-08-25 02:23:12 From the what-will-they-think-of-next department, here’s an external hard drive designed to house your deleted files. It’s shaped like a trash can and sports the recycling logo, so it attempts to...

Originally posted 2007-08-21 18:05:02 I just released version 0.2 of Safe, the command-line password management program I’ve been using. This is the first public release, and it’s still alpha, but I’d love feedback. I’m...

Originally posted 2007-08-21 17:17:22 Last year I built a computer with parts ordered from newegg.com. Over time, and because of its faster processor, larger hard drives, and buckets more memory, my home-built computer has...

Originally posted 2007-08-06 17:40:17 My parents spent the past three years Down Under doing missionary work. They lived in Melbourne, halfway around the world from us in Florida, USA. Email shortened the distance and...

Originally posted 2007-05-15 14:02:20 Last Sunday–Mother’s Day in the United States–my wife’s purse disappeared. Actually, someone put a crowbar through the passenger window of her van as it sat in our church parking lot...

Originally posted 2007-05-14 02:46:03 The last day of JavaOne featured Java-powered toys, introduced sequentially by James Gosling. None of them commanded more than a raised eyebrow or polite applause, except perhaps the programmable dancing...

Originally posted 2007-05-11 07:14:01 I didn’t say, \”Hello Moto\” to today’s Motorola keynote–to many fires at work to take care of. In fact, 6:00 AM found me standing outside the hotel in my pajamas,...

Originally posted 2007-05-10 09:22:46 I haven’t seen an attendance figure for this year’s JavaOne, but it must approach a gazillion. The logistics of moving this many geeks from place to place would boggle my...