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James Governor of RedMonk had a less-than-flattering comment about how JBoss blogs.

I think part of the problem is that a lot of interesting JBoss blogging occurs at places other than blogs.jboss.com. Basically, you simply have to look further than blogs.jboss.com.
For example, the JBoss Rules team blogs hellagood over at the JBoss Rules Blog. [...]

It’s Friday, and we all like having friends, so…

myspace.com/codehaus
myspace.com/jboss_org

And don’t act like you don’t have a MySpace account. You know you do.

We’ve got a bundle of opensource communities all over the place now. Some of them are the opensource arm of an otherwise capitalistic commercial entity:

JBoss.ORG
SugarForge
OpenLaszlo
MySQL.org

Others are non-profit, or not tightly tied to a corporation:

Apache Software Foundation
Codehaus Foundation
OpenQA

None of these should be confused with .nets, such as SourceForge.net or java.net. The .nets of the world [...]

Sure, you see the word “parasitic” and the first thing that pops to mind is probably “ewww.”
But parasitic behavior is actually a good strategy for new communities, as long as they don’t ultimately kill their host.
Last night Rysiek pinged me about some thoughts on how to improve JBoss Portal, by allowing the core team to [...]

Just a quick lifehack that I’ve started recently, completely unintentionally.
I picked up a huge bag of DenTek Easy Angle(tm) Floss Picks (”Flossing Made Easy!”) and keep them at my desk.
I previously thought I hated flossing. Now I’ve realized that I simply didn’t like wrapping thin string around my fingers until they turned blue. [...]

Today Ning crossed the dad threshold. This is the point in time when someone like your dad might actually cross paths with the work you (or your friends) do.
Without you having to say “hey dad, look at this”.
I’ve personally never crossed this point with my own father. He has a rough idea of [...]

I applaud the recent announcement between JBoss (Red Hat) and Exadel.
JBoss, through Seam, is committed to JSF, the standard view framework for Java EE applications. The Exadel components represent a nice set of JSF-compatible chunks to help build rich applications, using AJAX and such.
To be honest, I’m still learning JSF myself.
But from a business [...]

I’ve been having the same conversation repeatedly over the past few weeks, with several of my friends. I’m tired of having the conversation, so I’m now going to sum it up with a URL I can paste in place of it.
I know a lot of really good guys. Really excellent engineers who have [...]

This has been an interesting week in terms of networking. Actual TCP/IP networking, that is. First, there’s the normal jumping between the hotel and office networks. The hotel, nicely enough, was completely free. The office was also free, after entering what seemed to be an 480-character security key and avoiding the other [...]