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I’m packing up the grocery-getter and about to roll down to Orlando to get ready for JBoss World. Rebecca Goldstein has worked her fingers to the nub to ensure that this year’s JBoss World conference will be awesome.
I’ll be working with Karsten Wade of Red Hat Dev-Fu to produce daily show reports. You […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

When we moved from C to C++, we were overjoyed that we no longer had to declare all of our variables at the top of the function.

do_something() {
int num = 0;
int another_num = 0;
num = get_a_num();
another_num = get_a_num();
}
We could instead declare them near the point of use, […]

As noted earlier, Rebecca and I flew off to Europe last week for a little holiday, JavaPolis, and a week of JBoss.org team meetings.
With the winds behind us, we managed to make it to Schiphol airport in a record 6.5hrs from Newark. Not bad at all.
Met up with James Cobb, the kick-ass .org brand-manager/designer at […]

In about 24 hours I’ll be jetting towards Antwerp, Belgium to attend JavaPolis. I’ll also be meeting most of my team for the first time, as the development stars from Poland wing their way westward.
JBoss has a booth, and a bundle of core developers (and management) will either be attending or speaking.

Once again, we’ll announce winners of the Innovation Awards at JBoss World in February.

While there’s other opportunities for the projects at JBoss to get the nod for their innovation, the Innovation Awards are a chance for you, the users of JBoss projects, to get some glory. That glory includes a free pass to the […]

Red Hat and Sun recently signed some agreements around open-source Java projects and access to the Java TCK. This all goes towards the OpenJDK, and ultimately, having an open and officially recognized JDK on Fedora.

Contrast that to Apple, who some people think is pulling back and away from Java.
For more information about these agreements, […]