Author: Coté
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JavaOne: JXTA
Project JXTA: Open P2P Architecture Platform (TS-2915), Tuesday As I said earlier, JXTA has been the most interesting thing so far. The Tuesday session was presented by Bernard Traversat; I believe he’s the JXTA bigwig at Sun. As a pronunciation note, everyone seems to say “Jux-tah,” not “J-X-T-A.” What is JXTA? In short, JXTA is…
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Lost Baggage
Here’s a little “trip tip” for you: don’t put your keys in luggage you check. It seems like a good idea, of course. But the key assumption that your baggage will arrive home at the same time you will — instead of 9 hours later…you know, around 2:30AM — may not pan out. In short:…
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The Big Sleep:
The phone rang back in five minutes. I had finished my drink and it made me feel as if I could eat the dinner I had forgotten all about; I went out leaving the telephone ringing. It was ringing when I came back. It rang at intervals until half-past twelve. At that time I put…
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Can I Use the Word "Agile" Enough?
Zane’s post on the negative effects of personal motivations on software development reminded me of Cockburn’s discusion in Agile Development on the same topic. I went a-Googling for a write up, or summary of what was in the book. The closest thing I found was this, but the rest seemed like slim pickins. However, as…
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From Servlets and the Web Without the ability to show the customer something early, you’ll build the wrong thing. And even after you’ve built the right thing, the customer will want to tweak it. And in order to know whether what you’re doing is the right thing, you need to show it often.
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For some reason, I just got coteindustries.tc for free. Whoopie!
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Back in ‘97 Josh spray painted his car. Finally he’s got the images up.
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The Brunching Shuttlecocks Dungeons Dragons & To be honest, the plot makes as much sense as the rules involving the consumption of Iron Rations. I have no idea why they made a D&D movie with such a lofty “let’s save the little people” plot. Most D&D games I can remember playing involved going into the…
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Just what is Southern food – and where is it going? “There is no food that is characteristic of the whole South,” Pillsbury said. “Grits are not everywhere. Biscuits are not everywhere. And you have to be open-minded about what you call cornbread.”
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Once I hit 60, I’m gonna get in a balcony box like those two muppets Statler Waldorf. &
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Before headin’ home I created the Mr. Brown Drinkin’ Team FAQ at Kinman’s insistance.
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Fear and Loathing in America and Screwjack shipped from Amazon today; soon there’ll be some new HST to enjoy.
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My Horrible Dining Experience at IHOP in Killeen Dorothea said, “Because the waitress is talking to this girl who a while ago was one of the ones horseplaying. She was putting her hands under her armpit, holding out her elbows, and walking around like a chicken.” In front of the customers? I asked myself.
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Suck: Daily You know, Americans are a pretty kooky lot around alcohol. America has the highest percentage of abstainers of any western country. There are microscopic numbers of people who abstain in France or Italy. But close to 40 percent of Americans don’t drink alcohol at all. And they tend to accumulate in the Protestant…
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Another dream-chair.
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God damnit! When is tea time? And why can’t I find it on-line?! If you know, please, please tell me. Thanks.
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Chicago Tribune, “RUN, RALPH, RUN” The assumption by Democrats is that Nader’s supporters don’t understand the consequences of their vote, that, strategically, their support for Nader instead of Gore might benefit George W. Bush. The law says a citizen has to be 18 years old to vote. These are grown-ups taking part in an election.…
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“It just makes me sad that, you know, the wise guy attitude seems to dominates the press right now.” “Primary,” This American Life
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