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Manik Surtani, the stealthy party-crashing lead of JBoss Cache, has once again announced a Month of Bugs.

Yes, yes, I know it’s surprising that the superstars at JBoss might possibly write some buggy code. But we don’t always get a full 8 hours of sleep and a complete, nutritious breakfast. Plus, sometimes elves sneak […]

As mentioned previously, at the JBoss World 2008 conference in Orlando, we’ll be running a Hackathon.

Now’s the time to head over to the Hackathon wiki, and start making some plans. If you haven’t bought your pass to JBoss World yet, you need to jump on that, also. There’s less than a month before we’re […]

Some days, there’s a rhythm to the universe, where one idea keeps bubbling to the surface, trying to make itself known.
Today is one of those days. And the idea is bacon.

It started when I was reading some Apple rumor site about tomorrow’s keynote. The sidebar had a headline that involved “cookies” and […]

Got a Garmin GPS? Got a Toyota Matrix?
Apparently the two companies have stealthily conspired to make their products snap-in compatible.
While driving to-and-fro between Asheville and Raleigh, I got tired of having to pick up the GPS from the passenger seat to marvel at my progress. On a whim, I decided to see if […]

I’ve been working on compiling JIRA plugins lately, with maven-2.
And I see this go scrolling by:
[WARNING] *** CHECKSUM FAILED - Error retrieving checksum file for webwork/jars/webwork-30Apr07-jiratld.jar - IGNORING
In that single line, I get confused, as there are 4 hot words right there.

WARNING: Hey, something bad happened, but it’s not super bad.
FAILED: Well, crap, it […]

Tomorrow, I’m trekking down from my mountain to the flatlands, destined for Raleigh.
FUDCon Raleigh 2008 is taking place. In the interest of Red Hat open-source communities playing friendly and synergizing, I’ve been invited to join the Fedora Board. This means I’ve also installed VMWare Fusion and have built a Fedora image for my Mac.

Luckily, […]

Since I’ve been with JBoss, we’ve been making a move towards “the Fedora model” in terms of the divide between the open-source community projects and the “official” bits you can buy support against. Once we introduced our Platforms and Frameworks product configurations, it became slightly less clear what was what. Unlike Fedora, when […]