Ghetto Java

If you got the bling OS(X) and it’s 64 bit come get some.

Hey,
I love the concept. Seems a lot simpler than Amazon EMC2, which I am still having difficulty grokking. But for now only Python is supported, which seems … different. I’d love to see Java running on that bad boy. If you guys are of the same opnion, let your voice be heard: http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/list
Peace,
GJ

A good sign of a health of a project is a good infusion of hard cash. And nothing shows off money like a sexy web site redesign. The new site looks badass. I also love the new tag line “Grails - The search is over” Yeah! I got let you guys know what I’ve been […]

It’s in my doc. But I’m scared to try it. Pretty though, very pretty.

I picked up 2 rails books this weekend:
Google Maps Applications with Rails and AJAX (Apress)
Ruby on Rails: Up and Running (O’reilly)
I met this programmer out of Stanford that does Java web dev for his day Gig but
really loves RoR for his own stuff. I admit when he started denigrating Java in favor of Ruby I […]

Who says being an PITA doesn’t get results? Well after getting an earful from the java community, Apple has finally released a new version of Java 1.6 for the mac. Now all naysayers that said java is dead on the mac can STFU. Oh wait, was I one of those people? […]

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I have been playing with Netebeans 6 since the betas and I have to say I’m impressed. The work that has been done on the editor is amazing and you can tell that they are taking cues from IDEA in that regard. For the kind of development I’ve been doing lately, […]

MrDon and the German

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ApacheCon was in Atlanta last week, so you know I had to crash the party. Got to meet Struts developers that I’ve only conversed with on the IRC, like Don Brown (mrdon) and Wendy Smoak. Great conversations. Sorry you missed it.

You have to see this. What our java brother-in-arms, Landon Fuller is doing is amazing!
I predicted we would see and X11 based jdk on OSX before we saw an Apple one. I forgot to post that prediction however.
Anyway, the blog is slowly coming back to life. Catch ya’ll soon,
Peace,
GJ