City LifeCity LifeRick Ross- June 29, 2005 Hmm. I may have gone overboard in my criticism of Rick Ross's performance at NetBeans Day. Yesterday, I ran into an old friend at JavaOne who has known Rick for over 10 years, and who had just bumped into him on the pavillion floor. My friend likes everybody but he's known Rick a long time and I trust him on this. Rick's just an enthusiastic guy. When I think back, what I took as a pro-NetBeans bias was probably just Rick being Rick. Sorry.http://www.jroller.com/bobfoster/entry/rick_ross Is the JavaOne Website Compromised- June 28, 2005 When I access http:java.sun.comjavaone and click on Sessions I get an alert that reports an attempted attack from "HTTP Netscape Cookie Monster". It appears to be coming from mentorware.com. What do you seehttp://www.jroller.com/bobfoster/entry/is_the_javaone_website_compromised NetBeans Day- June 28, 2005 On advice that anything about Java in English appears in the recent postings list (and apparently nothing else), I am providing links to my two posts on NetBeans Day at JavaOne yesterday. I've got good news and bad news, which do you want first Ok, the bad news: NetBeans Day And now the bright side: Cool Things From NetBeans Dayhttp://www.jroller.com/bobfoster/entry/netbeans_day Cool Things from NetBeans Day- June 28, 2005 I have written elsewhere about some uncool things I saw on NetBeans Day. The event was soured by an excess of competitiveness vis a vis Eclipse, which forced the engineers into awkward, apologist roles. Way too many managers in the room; Jonathan Schwartz would have put them over their quota all by himself. And Rick Ross. The event was taped and I hope it will be on the net soon, so the world can see Rick in full ass-kissing mode. But I also saw or heard about some very cool things. I didn't...http://www.jroller.com/bobfoster/entry/cool_things_from_netbeans_day Censorship in JRoller Recent Postings- June 27, 2005 Which recent postings get shown on the home page Only the ones the JRoller staff likes Is there a filter on disparaging remarks about a certain RR At any rate, I'm not seeing my recent posts there and it's very annoying.http://www.jroller.com/bobfoster/entry/censorship_in_jroller_recent_postings |