Friday, December 06, 2002

Who is crazybob I am crazybob, and this is my blog.. Welcome. I'm a Java consultant for OCI, Inc. I'm currently co-authoring the EJB sequel to Bitter Java with Bruce Tate. I touch on a wide variety of Java-based technolgies day-to-day, and I suspect that I'll ramble on about them here (that's the plan anyway). Rickard is convinced that blogs are the current forum of choice for the Java community, so I thought I'd throw my hat into the ring. [crazybob.org - web log] 4:00:54 PM Google It!      comment []

AOL Communicator == Minotaur AOL Communicator == Minotaur. Well, maybe not exactly. But it is in spirit. So, to follow up on Pinder's post from yesterday, I downloaded the beta and installed it. Lo and behold! It's Mozilla mail! Basically, this is the mail/news branch of Mozilla (around version 1.2 + spam filtering it seems). Ok, so for... [Blogzilla - a blog about Mozilla]   4:00:13 PM Google It!      comment []

IBM getting Rational IBM getting Rational. Big Blue plans to pay $2.1 billion in cash for the company, whose products help software developers create models of business processes. [CNET News.com] One more consolidation in the tools space. 3:57:51 PM Google It!      comment []

Sun Software Quarterly Town Hall, Jonathan Schwartz Sun Software Quarterly Town Hall, Jonathan Schwartz. Sun Software Quarterly Town Hall, Jonathan Schwartz - The value of systems when you are moving to a new architecture is represented by the number of applications you can build because, for the most part, if you don't have those applications the next application will deliver a lot of value. But over time the value of a new application will slope off, as the value of integrating those applications together goes up. Collaxa's Take:This is what is happening to the application server and J2EE: an increasing number of J2EE applications need to interact with other existing systems. In a reliable and loosely-coupled fashion. This is why J2EE and XML Web services are converging. Watch for JSR 159. [Collaxa's Take] 3:56:55 PM Google It!      comment []

Saving Your Bits for Posterity Saving Your Bits for Posterity.  [Wired News] 3:56:35 PM Google It!      comment []

Web services business proposition Web services business proposition. Web services business proposition -[Collaxa's Take] 3:55:38 PM Google It!      comment []

Martin Fowler's Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture The GoF Design Patterns of enterpise application development.. I just got my copy of Martin Fowler's Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture.  [crazybob.org - web log] 3:53:48 PM Google It!      comment []

Runtime instrumentation in WebLogic Runtime instrumentation in WebLogic..[crazybob.org - web log] May be useful. I need to try this. 3:53:03 PM Google It!      comment []

why Maven? why Maven?. [James Strachan's Radio Weblog] Useful post from James summing up Maven's advantages. Useful Post because instead of losing time trying to convince people in your company, you can just send them this bookmark: yes I'm a lazy guy (But Larry Wall expressed very well in the Camel book why this is an essential virtue for a programmer :-) 11:58:02 AM Google It!      comment []

Runtime instrumentation in WebLogic Runtime instrumentation in WebLogic. Bob pulled it off!  His neat hack allows all EJB classes to be advisable with WebLogic. Very cool stuff, and very small too! [Otaku, Cedric's weblog] Looks cool, and allowed me discover Crazy Bob's excellent weblog.   11:53:00 AM Google It!      comment []