Not too long ago Jeff Attwood offered to give away some of the domains he had registered as potential domains for what would become stackoverflow.com.  I called dibs on HumbleDeveloper.com and after some effort to try to figure out that GoDaddy didn’t want to be helpful in facilitating a transfer within registrars, Jeff transferred the [...]

This guy is working on some very cool stuff. Here is a video showing a head tracking device for computer displays that he made using a wiimote. Frickin’ cool.

Charles Nutter:It is a glorious day in JRuby-land, for the compiler is now complete.
That is some cool stuff. I think it is very cool that while a lot of people are pitting Java and Ruby against one another, that there are other people making an effort to bring them together.
In related news, I’m taking [...]

Too many cooks© Carina S

Paul Krill:
Can forming six committees result in simplification? OASIS believes this is the way to go with its SOA efforts.
Forming six separate committees for this effort does seem to be a bit of overkill. I like the idea of SCA, and I want it to gain some traction. I’m [...]

SOA Facts: “Guns don’t kill people, the SOA WS-* stack kills people.”
If you laugh at any of these then you are in fact a geek. Welcome to the club.
Technorati Tags: SOA, WS-*

Call me an eager beaver, but I downloaded the new Firefox, which you can get from here now. So far so good. I was quite pleased that only 3 of my extensions were not compatible, and only one of those, LiveHTTPHeaders, is one I’ll miss.
I haven’t really played with it much yet, but [...]

I am apparently normal, as I vastly prefer matte laptop screens to glossy ones. Seems like most everyone else does too.
Technorati Tags: matte, laptop

It is hard to read a lot of things about SCA and  WS-* and then try to twist it into a REST style view.  I keep having to read REST articles to get my feet grounded again.
This is a good one.
Technorati Tags: REST, SCA, Web Services

Well, I realize that I am a few steps behind some people, but this weekend I decided to take advantage of North Carolina’s tax free weekend and Ashley’s status as a “student” to get a 17″ iMac tax free with educational discounts bundled with a free (after rebate) iPod Nano and HP printer/scanner.  It was [...]

Well, a few weeks ago at BarCampRDU, Andy Hunt of the Pragmatic Programmers talked about writing three pages longhand every morning and how it was “good for your brain.”  I think that the reasoning is that is occupies some of the “logic” part of your brain in such a way that the “creative” part of [...]