fnokd!

For those of you playing along at home, I’ve added jboss-deployers to my GitHub mirror set.  Like the others, the ‘vendor’ branch is the one you want.

jboss-deployers
jbossas
microcontainer
vfs

I’m adding JBoss projects to my mirror set as I trip across the need to browse their source.  If there’s a JBoss project you’d like to see mirrored out [...]

Back in May, I was a manager.
I feebly attempted to direct 8 great guys and gals to further the goals of JBoss.org.  After the Codehaus, you’d think I’d be able to help build an opensource community with fun and flair.  But I came to realize that it’s hard to build a community as an active [...]

Oh, fortuna!
I’m rejoining the Red Hat/JBoss mothership, doing rubyish things, and what do you know, but there’s a RubyCamp at the RHT HQ in Raleigh on October 18th.
37signals and Ruby Row are sponsoring the event.

Space is limited to 200, but at the time of this posting only 57 have signed up.  It’s an unconference, so [...]

A project I’m working on requires some hard-core monkey-patching of Rails internals.
Monkey-patching is a dangerous occupation, and liable to cause new and intriguing bugs into previously-tested sane code.
I’ve been working on a smarter patch-monkey, known as Lemur.
The goal is to allow monkey-patched methods (currently only instance methods are supported) to be written in modules that [...]

In addition to the previously-mentioned JRuby mirror from Codehaus SVN to GitHub, I’m now also mirroring:

JBoss Microcontainer
JBoss AS5
JRuby

All are trunk-only mirrors, not picking up branches or tags. Since the JBoss repository path has about 77,000 subversion revisions, and at one point held any and all JBoss software ever written, I have not mirrored it [...]

So, I’m gearing up to work on some Java+Ruby (via JRuby) stuff. The Java world still seems fairly entrenched in the cult of Subversion, while the Rubyists have gone with Git lately.
I’m still wrapping my mind around Git, but with GitHub, it’s fairly easy and straight-forward. I paid my $7 for the micro [...]

If you’ve spent time around a child as he’s developed language, you’ll notice how he starts with a string of similar statements:

I saw a dog
I saw a cat
I saw a bee
I saw another dog
I saw Don Henley

After a while, that can get a tad annoying, and you become grateful when they discover conjuctions.

I saw two [...]

I’ve been noticing lately, it seems that “heirloom” is popping up everywhere.
There are heirloom vegetables, of course. The tasty varieties of tomatoes your grandparents grew up on, instead of the red/orange globes that taste like nothing.
Then I noticed a store selling “heirloom sewing supplies”.
Some dictionary defines “heirloom” as
A valued possession passed down in a [...]

As my summer winds down, Lance and I are proud to launch Food Jaunt, a directory of local-food providers with reviews, ratings, and maps. Plus, we point out locavore news as we see it.
For my non-American readers, the US has a tendency to eat food that was grown at least 4 timezones away, and [...]