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Thursday, 28 November 2002

Wow! I have to say we've been overwhelmed by the great response to javablogs.com today, thanks to all! (Also, Owen Fellows - one of our guru Atlassian developers - was the other major developer, so please blame / thank him too ) We even managed a few updates today - all based on the great feedback - including: The frontpage will now only show a maximum of 3 headlines from each blog - if there's more than three, a short message will be displayed linking to the View Blog page. The blog links are now colour coded across the site, with each colour unique to a particular blog per page. Each View Blog page (example) now shows whether or not the blog is aggregated and / or searchable. The search function can now filter a date range, so if you know a post was written around a particular time - it can help you narrow down your search. You can also just ignore the query altogether and use this to browse all entries in a particular date range. Lists of global recent searches, and your own recent searches are also displayed - it's really just a bit of fun, but it might be useful to see what others are looking for?  You can no longer add the same blog twice There's probably other things too - but that's about all I can think of off the top of my head. (Oh - and we passed 50 blogs in one day *cheer* next milestone is 100!) 6:32:10 PM  comment []      One blogger (put your name on your blog man!) posted his "25 Reasons I Love Using IntelliJ Idea" - fantastic summary. 2:57:02 PM  comment []      Charles has hit the nail right on the head (to use his own words) with BEA gets desperate. Some of BEA's claims squarely hit the mark. Many of them are cringe-worthy marketing FUD. I'm particularly amused by the line: [base "]IBM's WebSphere solution is built on an outdated middleware technology called CORBA[per thou], that could only have been written by Marketing. None of this actually matters, though. From a marketing perspective, you only ever publish this sort of document in two circumstances. Either (a) you're losing, or (b) you're Larry Ellison. But he left my favourite line for last (too true it is!): If it weren't for the collateral issues, nobody would buy Websphere. But by the same token, nobody would buy Weblogic either. Orion and JBoss would rule the world. 1:12:47 PM  comment []      Scott sent me this today, and it's a fantastic read - The Programmers' Stone: The purpose of this site is to recapture, explore and celebrate the Art of Computer Programming. By so doing we hope to help the reader either become a better programmer, understand what less experienced programmers are struggling with, or communicate more effectively with other experienced programmers. With sections like "Angels, Dragons and the Philosophers' Stone", "To See the World in a Line of Code", "The Reality of the System as an Object" and my favourite, "Are Electrons Conscious?" - it's not your normal software development book. And it's free - what more could you want? 12:12:04 AM  comment []