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Over in the LinkedIn Answers sections, on blogs, or in dimly lit conference rooms, I’ve heard a question repeated a few times.
What open-source project should I contribute to? How do you find a good one?
Normally, the supposed motivation for finding a project in the first place, the reason for this quest, is to increase […]

No, not Wisconsin.
Nor the Happy Cows of California.
I’m heading to Switzerland next week.
Finally, I get to actually use Dopplr. I’m one of those remote-type web workers, so this international trip is chance for me to actually have some face-time with my boss.
“Stop by my office before you go home” doesn’t work so well in […]

A couple of JBoss-related announcements today…
First, if you’re wanting to meet some of the JBoss guys out in the Real World, we’ve mashed-up Google Calendar over at our Community Calendar Page. Currently it includes some dates to meet the Drools guys in Orlando, Romania and Sao Paulo, some Hibernate guys in Atlanta, Dublin and […]

Since Ninjas don’t talk, though, I suggest talking like a pirate today. It may even help reduce global warming.

Back at JavaOne, the team and I chased down Gavin and made him speak on Seam, Web Beans (JSR-299), Groovy, Grails, and two-wheeled forms of transportation.

We’ve also included a transcript, since both Gavin and Mark have those funny accents.

My friend Lance, here in Asheville, hacks for Electric Sheep Company during the day, and by night is actor extraordinaire.

Starting next week, the immediate theatre project will be presenting Copenhagen, with Lance playing the physicist Werner Heisenberg. The play centers around a meeting (in Copenhagen) that occurred between the seemingly at-odds scientists during the […]

The 2008 JBoss World conference has been announced as happening in Orlando during February 13-15. That’s Valentine’s Day. Bring your sweetie south, and thaw out with some hot Java in the sun.
Want to be a superstar and get a free pass to the conference? Of course you do!
Just submit a presentation. […]