Adopt A Library: ClothRed

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

Right. I want to, but I really can’t get to it.
ClothRed is in dire need of help. Your help.
I simply don’t have the time, or will–truth be told–to begin work on ClothRed again. The code’s become foreign to me, way too foreign, and I have to get back into the thick of things, to write [...]

RMM: Huh?

Sunday, May 3rd, 2009

The Twitter/Ruby on Rails world is abuzz with the “Rails Maturity Model”.
So, curious fellow that I am, I have taken a look at the website.
And I’m left with a big “huh?”
Yes, that’s right, I have no idea what it is about. And I have the feeling that I’m not alone in this. A lot of [...]

On Edginess, Community, and How That Reflects on You

Saturday, May 2nd, 2009

This article has two parts: One is a bit analytical, the other is highly opinionated (so, probably more fun to read).
A bit of exposition first: Somebody did a technical presentation at a technical conference. Unfortunately, a few members took offence at the presentation. Not its contents, mind you, but the way the presentation was done. [...]

I am lazy. That’s why I like J2EE

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

No, really. Without J2EE, I wouldn’t have access to Glassfish, with its wonderful autodeploy directory to, well, autmatically delpoy applications on it.
Without Java, I wouldn’t be able to use JRuby.
And neither would I be able to use Warbler to create .war-files for drag and drop deployment.
In the span of 30 minutes (half of which is [...]