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I volunteer each week at my son’s school, where he’s in a gifted class. Lately, they’ve been working with Lego Mindstorms, as part of a unit on robotics. I’m helping with the “programming” parts. The kids assemble the robot according to the directions, and then we connect them to a Windows machine […]

A year from today, I’ll be 35.
That’ll make me eligible to be the President of the United States. I had planned on announcing my web2.0 candidacy, and do a Ze Frank-esque 1-year internship of running for president. I even registered a domain, “designed” a logo, and planned on doing a write-in campaign to […]

Radar Networks, my former employer, is finally going public with what they’re up to. To be honest, at this point even I have no clue what they’re launching. I’ve been gone for a while, and they seem to have been massively busy and hiring the past 9 months. I’ll be watching intently, […]

At the Codehaus and at JBoss.org, I’ve continually come across Subversion repositories that needed to be split apart or merged, perhaps after converting from CVS. One problem you continually hit, particularly if you’re merging repositories, is the “date order of revisions” bug. Simply stated, if you create a new repository loaded from two […]

Earlier this week, Katie Poplin sent out the notifications to people who submitted presentation proposals for JBoss World 2008. The official schedule will be posted later, but I’m happy to say that my proposal for a JBoss.org round-table discussion about running open-source projects was accepted.
I’ll be drafting some core developers, external contributors and users […]

Browsing the website for the Web 2.0 Summit coming up in October, I tripped across the Launch Pad portion. The introduction says, in part
While it’s great to be chosen to launch your new company at a conference like Web 2.0 Summit, the reality of the market is that the majority of successful Web 2.0 […]