David Geary's Weblog<p>I'll scratch a hole in my life<br/>So everyone can see<p>Mouse bites- February 27, 2005 I switched from the horrid world of Windows to Java developer's nivrana (that, of course would be Mac OS X) about two years ago. Way back in 1992 I helped develop McCaw Cellular's cellphone registration application, which ran under NeXTSTEP. Anybody remember that application Even though I was mired mostly in C++ development doing database access&8212;and you thought your job was hell!&8212I got to mess around with NS and Obj C. I was such a convert that I paid $5,000 for a used Cube just so I...http://www.jroller.com/dgeary/entry/mouse_bites MyFaces is Hot- February 25, 2005 Disclaimer: From now on, we're going to have nothing but fun here! I like to keep my finger on the pulse as much as I can so that I can track Big Things and Next Big Things. One of the best ways to do that is to join mailing lists and watch how much traffic appears in your inbox. Lately, I've taken notice of the traffic on the MyFaces mailing list, which seems to be running neck and neck with the Struts developer's mailing list, which means that MyFaces is generating a lot of attention....http://www.jroller.com/dgeary/entry/myfaces_is_hot Ruby on Rails Koolaid- February 21, 2005 I always keep a running list of new things to learn. Last year it was Tapestry, Hibernate, Spring and SiteMesh and just in time, too, as I'm using all of them now in the real world (sans Tapestry). This year, Ruby is high on my list, as is Laszlo. Dave Thomas is a big Ruby fan and I'm a big Dave Thomas fan, so I figure I will love Ruby. Also, Ruby, like SmallTalk, frees you from the constraining confines of static type checking. If you've only used statically typed languages like C++ or Java,..http://www.jroller.com/dgeary/entry/ruby_derailed Green Day Rocks!- February 19, 2005 Last year I took my daughter to her first concert: Green Day, at the Pepsi Center in Denver. Although she'd argue the point, I enjoyed the concert more than she did. I've been a longtime fan since I heard Dookie's Longview on the radio for the first time. The concert was awesome. Green Day pulled no punches by leading with American Idiot, and the energy those guys spent throughout the evening could've kept all of Denver lit. So I was thrilled to see Green Day win a Grammy for American Idiot....http://www.jroller.com/dgeary/entry/green_day_rocks Micropause- February 19, 2005 Back in 1997, while I was consulting for the Swing team at Sun, I developed RSI so bad that I thought it might end my career. Today, I can work all I want without consequence, thanks in part to WorkPace. WorkPace is software that reminds me to take micropauses&8212;20 second breaks every 3 or 4 minutes&8212;in addition to a 5 minute break every 40 minutes or so. Anyway, Rob has been needling me incessantly about my micropauses. He's a strong, stocky guy, whereas I'm a svlet wimp, so I suspect..http://www.jroller.com/dgeary/entry/micropause NFJS 2005- February 18, 2005 No Fluff, Just Stuff's first symposium for 2005 is the weekend of March 4-6 in Milwaukee. Just in time too, as my three NFJS long-sleeve tee shirts, which is all I wear (I'm not kidding), are getting pretty ragged. As a NFJS speaker, one of the perks is free tees, so I'll swipe a few in Mwke. To start the year, I'm doing three new presentations: "Shale: the next Struts", "Felix: a bag of tricks for JSF", and "Design Patterns: Tales from the server-side". Later on, I'll add two more...http://www.jroller.com/dgeary/entry/nfjs_2005 Back from Cleveland- February 12, 2005 The initial phase of my consulting job is complete, so I drove home from Cleveland last week. Nothing against Cleveland, but it sure was nice to see the Rockies, not to mention perpetual sunshine, once agan. The drive back was pretty brutal. I had to make excellent time to avoid a storm blowing through Nebraska and Iowa, so I stopped only when I needed gas. I paid the price for it with some RSI flareup, but fortunately I know how to deal with that nowadays, so I was able to keep working. My...http://www.jroller.com/dgeary/entry/back_from_cleveland |