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February 27, 2006
Autistic BBall Star
If you enjoy basketball and you didn't see the video clip, "High School Basketball Pandemonium", be sure to check it out. Talk about draining some 3's... Sweet!
Posted by harris at 09:18 PM | Comments (0)
February 23, 2006
JDJ RIP
I receive several trade rags about technolgy. Most of them get stacked up in a pile by my desk that I eventually go through after they start cluttering the office. When going through the latest round of magazines recently I noticed Java Developer's Journal lead story, What Is POJO Programming? LOL... I am wondering if any other Java programmers find this amusing!? What is POJO programming?? It is what we have been doing all along!! It is vanilla Java... public class Blah ...
That JDJ published this as the lead story tells something about the Java platform... it is no longer interesting to talk about!! This is not to say Java is not an important technolgy. On a timeline, I actually view Java as in its Golden Years. It is very mature, it has a rich ecosystem of tools and libraries, and will remain a central technology in enterprise software for many years to come. But...
It is not interesting. I tried to read a couple other articles in this JDJ issue... one on the Seam project from JBoss and another about Spring; I was so bored though after the first couple pages that I coudn't even finish the articles.
The JDJ will probably continue to exist for several more years, but for me it'll likely go straight from my mailbox to the trade rag graveyard in the sky. It used to be fun to read about new things in the platform. However, now that we are back to reading about java.lang.Object, I hope JDJ will rest in peace.
Posted by harris at 05:05 PM | Comments (0)
February 03, 2006
RailsConf 2006
I decided to be part of history and go to the first ever Ruby On Rails Conference this coming June. Apparently only a day or two after opening registration it is 25% booked. If you are up for a summer trip to Che-kaago it should be fun.
Posted by harris at 09:03 AM | Comments (2)
Exabyte
Any idea how much an exabyte is? It is BIG. Apparently 5 exabytes could store "all words ever spoken by a human being"! The largest unit of measure on the chart is a Yottabyte (to bad it isn't Yodabyte!). One Yottabyte would be larger than all the PC hard drives in the whole world combined.
Posted by harris at 08:47 AM | Comments (0)
A Quick $700
Amr Awadallah, a Yahoo! developer, predicted that Google would miss their Q4 earnings back on Jan. 12. His analysis was insightful and in hindsight it was obviously accurate. What was interesting though was that he put his money where his mouth was and shorted Google's stock when it was $465/share. After they reported earnings, the stock slid to ~$395/share and he was up ~700 bucks. Although Amr certainly doesn't work on Wall Street, you have to appreciate that he put some skin in the game while masquerading as an armchair analyst!
Posted by harris at 08:29 AM | Comments (0)