Michael Neale wrote:
I have been doing it off and on since 2001, and consistently for the
last 4 years or more.
It is great, it does have its downsides though.
My one bit of advice is: if a job sucks, it will suck much much much
more at home, and seem so much harder.
The fact is probably
But at least on average every 23rd word would be numberwang!
Somehow languages with far less ambiguity still spawn art and culture
and I am one of those weird people who believe that there is beauty in
good code. Some of that is due to the names used, but I think there is
more to it than just
+1
Actually mostly with senior management. The sales guys seemed to do OK
at doing what they were asked: selling big iron. The senior management
just never seemed to figure out what to do about software services.
Oracle can hopefully help there.
Steven Herod wrote:
I think we can
I think we can probably strongly argue that the failings of Sun
Microsystems lay with its sales team and senior management.
Hopefully, now with Oracle, they'll have a sales and business attitude
that gets the money rolling in.
I feel Java will always be better off with strong commercial
I guess some of the fog will be lifted at JavaOne...
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Scott Finnie scott.fin...@gmail.comwrote:
+1
Actually mostly with senior management. The sales guys seemed to do OK
at doing what they were asked: selling big iron. The senior management
just never
Check out the Oracle FAQ on the acquisition...you'll find it on the OTN
homepage: http://www.oracle.com/technology/index.html
Interesting indeed...
Josh Juneau
juneau...@gmail.com
http://jj-blogger.blogspot.com
http://www.gathereventplanning.com
Twitter ID: javajuneau
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 05:22:24PM -0400, Marcelo Morales wrote:
Prediction 9: Oracle promises JavaFX but will not deliver. The lack of
a killer JavaFX IDE will be ultimately the doom of the free world.
Surely it'll be transition to PL/SQLFX?
-Dom
Casper Bang wrote:
Their failing business model was predicted a long time ago by both
Paul Graham and John C. Dvorak. My personal feeling is that Sun had
this weird pendulum approach, very much visible in Java itself. Focus
swinging from side to side, too slow to actually have an impact and
It is possible to innovate without burning compatibility -- it's just
another design constraint.
Sure it is, but Sun did not do it. In the end they resorted to adding
a layer on top instead which is of course a lot easier. But I guess it
depends on your definition on innovation, I also happen
No restrictions up to 5 users is fabulous. These guys rock.
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 8:33 AM, vineetb vineet.vine...@gmail.com wrote:
Atlassian is offering Jira, Confluence for $5 (5 users) all for a good
cause!
http://www.atlassian.com/starter/
--
Robert Casto
www.robertcasto.com
And don't flush until after the meeting.
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Christian Catchpole
christ...@catchpole.net wrote:
And it's always nice to be able to present to directors via video
conference in your underwear.
Note to self: Don't stand up!
On Apr 23, 8:56 am, Michael Neale
True story - I was interviewing with a company a couple years ago. Went
through round one on phone - seemed to go OK. Got passed to dept manager
for second round of phone screening. We're chatting away, part way through,
and I hear some noise - some little kid babbling about something. Next
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