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Friday, March 21, 2003

Sun employee's weblog doesn't like me comparing Phipps statments

Interesting a Sun employee's weblog doesn't like me comparing Phipps statments. Notice the techical issues I raise in that Phipps own statements do not match one another is never addressed. Somehow I am wrong for raising them in the first place with smoke screens to ad homien attacks; then the weblog author does an ad homein attack to back up the arguement.

Fred I don't care about you comparing Simon's statements, I just find it a bad idea to call him stupid, and I'm unhappy to find posts like this in javablog. As to the content of your post, I don't address it because I don't want to be involved in this discussion.... and I am not competent to do so anyway.

And I don't attack you in person, I just comment on your post.

I guess it was to happen: as blogs become more and more like discussion systems, flamewars had to happen one day or another. I won't comment on this issue anymore. I'm not interested in flame wars at all.


5:59:53 PM    comment []

Security in Plain English. [::Manageability::]

To get further information expressed in a non technical jargon on the subject I recommend Bruce Schneier's excellent Secrets and Lies : Digital Security in a Networked World


5:31:22 PM    comment []

AspectJ Patents Clarified. [::Manageability::]

That clears it for me too.


5:30:22 PM    comment []

Maven grows up: see R A T I O N A L E  A N D  E X P L A N A T I O N

12:34:12 PM    comment []

In The Stupidest Sun Employee Fred Grott attacks Simon Phipps, Sun's chief technology evangelist about a quote from him in the CNET article Sun reaches out to JBoss, calling him stupid.

The quote is:

However, Phipps said he doubts that JBoss software will pass the compliance test. Basing his opinion on public information, he said, JBoss software does not appear to implement all of the J2EE specification.

"I predict that now that we're calling their bluff, they will make up another excuse for not doing the tests".

This quote and the whole JBoss/Sun story has been covered much more thoughtfully in other blogs and articles:

What Is The Root Problem Between Sun and JBoss? [Random Thoughts]

Sun Gets Tough with J2EE 1.4 Certification [Silicon Valley Internet.com]

Sun offerring JBoss J2EE tests  [A cup of JOE]

Disclaimer: although this weblog is private, I also happen to be a Sun employee. My views do not reflect those of my employer. Blah, Blah, Blah..., like Chiara says :-)

I won't prononce myself on the Sun/JBoss story for 2 reasons:

  • It is more a marketing/legal story than technical, so I'm not very interested in it
  • I don't want any trouble with the company which pays my check: I'm not as open as Russel Beattie :-)

I will just say that I have some admiration for the technical achievements of the JBoss team: I have read Marc Fleury's 2 books and the Blue paper, (see Blue, Why Marc Fleury loves EJBs) and learnt much from them, and I follow the JBoss 4 new AOP framework with great interest.

Fred is free to make ad hominen attacks if it suits his desire, but I just won't read him anymore. Too bad because apart from that his weblog was interesting to read and I was considering adding him to my subscription list. Attacking a man instead of his ideas is always a bad strategy if you try to convince people with a minimum of critical sense.

Then he's attacking the wrong man: I don't know Simon Phipps personally but I find his Webmink blog a pleasure to read and so far he's the only other fellow weblogger I know at Sun. If Simon is "the stupidest Sun employee", Fred's post can be interpreted as a  great compliment to our company :-) 

Last, in his post Fred mispels Simon's last name, calling him "Mr Philips": this should expose Fred to his own disdain, if you believe the post he made the same day about Tim Bray's XML being hard for programmers:

Lets just say if you are a reader of the this blog for any length of time you know my disdain for those who fail to read and process what they read.

Eat your own dogfood Fred :-) 


12:32:37 PM    comment []

In Apple SwitchJohn C. Dvorak thinks Apple will switch to Intel processors within the next 12 to 18 months.

That would be an excellent move.

I need a new laptop. Back in January I considered switching to a Mac, after seeing all these fine java programmers moving to this platform, but decided against after reading a lot. I commented about this in my blog (I'm still glad I didn't switch to a Mac, but thanks for the comment Mike) and got a few comments from Mac fans. One of my main reasons for not switching was clock speed, but also I feared the lack of some software I use. Finally, my old friend Francois "Padawan" blew my last doubts about software, which convinced me to switch: I ordered one of the nice 17'' Titanium laptops :-)

If Apple switches to Intel, this would definitely remove my last worry about their future.

(found from Raible Design's post


11:39:52 AM    comment []

In Javablog.com Bug ? Emmanuel Boudran describes a bug in javablog, with a test case that is the references post itself, which he poste in his personal category when he registered his Technology RSS feed category in javablog.

 http://blogs.application-servers.com/blogs/rss/eboudrant?catname=Technology 

I qualified the bug further: javablog just does not take any parameters at the end of your RSS feed url, ie after ?.

To prove this I've done a little experiment on the commandline:

~ >wget -O toto -o titi "http://blogs.application-servers.com/blogs/rss/eboudrant" ; cat toto|grep "Javablog.com Bug ?"
    <title>Javablog.com Bug ?</title>
~ >wget -O toto -o titi "http://blogs.application-servers.com/blogs/rss/eboudrant?catname=Technology" ; cat toto | grep "Javablog.com Bug ?"

This proves that in Emmanuel's case, although he registered  http://blogs.application-servers.com/blogs/rss/eboudrant?catname=Technology as the RSS url, what is read by the RSS reader from javablog is  http://blogs.application-servers.com/blogs/rss/eboudrant 



 


11:17:27 AM    comment []

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