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Through the kick-ass efforts of Ben Walding (pictured left with his, um, jaffles iron…) and major assists by Contegix, sanity has started to return to the haus. All repositories are capable of being open for business, pending the project despots decision. So, if CVS/Subversion is missing, go bug the project lead.
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After fighting with backups (check your backups, kids!), we’ve started getting the haus back online. Subversion repositories are back, read-only over HTTP at http://svn.codehaus.org/, the various distribution repos are back, such as http://dist.codehaus.org/. We did lose some commits in the SVN, and some deployments may be missing from dist. Now’s the time […]

Alas, it’s been a bad month for opensource communities.  SourceForge has had its share of problems lately, as did the ASF.  And now, even the Codehaus is not immune.  Our CVS/Subversion server is offline with an angry disk.  We’re trying to recover it, but preparing to restore from backups if need be.  We have no […]

A funny-because-its-true photo on Tribe.net.

Shortly after the marriage of JBoss and RedHat, the JBossWorld conference will be happening in Las Vegas. Rebecca and I will be flying out there to hang out with Michael Neale and Mark Proctor of the Drools project. If you find yourself in Vegas around mid-June, look me up and we’ll have a […]

This weekend I acquired a new toy. Those of you who follow my Flickr might’ve noticed slightly less fuzzy photos streaming in. This is actually the first Windows machine I’ve purchased for myself. Previously I had tried a Zaurus, but it quickly became a paperweight, due to its size and lack of […]

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Today marked the first day of grilling season up here in the Appalachians. For some reason, nothing is quite as satisfying as dousing some brickets with some volatile organic compounds and setting it all aflame. The forced relaxation that comes with waiting for the perfect coals is to be savored. I could probably make an […]