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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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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. [...]

Mike “JIRA JIRA JIRA” Cannon-Brookes pinged me on IM tonight to let me know that Atlassian has acquired Cenqua. Cenqua, as you might know, makes the fancy-dandy FishEye product for viewing source repositories. Atlassian is the Australian wiki/bug-tracking giant run by stylish surfers.
Congrats to both groups. I enjoyed having beers with the [...]

Mark Proctor has posted an interview he did with Terence Parr of ANTLR fame. Ter is one of the nicest and smartest guys I know.
Back in the day, teaching myself how to program in C++, I decided to write my own scripting language. I’d tried (f)lex/yacc/bison, and they were either not friendly to [...]

I’ve finished putting together the first podcast since I’ve joined JBoss.org. Mark Newton and James Cobb helped with this interview of Tom Baeyens, the project lead for jBPM. In it, Tom discusses some of the fundamentals of jBPM, including his ideas around the Process Virtual Machine (PVM).
YouTube | MPEG-4 (Video) | MP3 (Audio [...]

Tom Baeyens has written a nice blog introduction to a technical article on the Process Virtual Machine.
Tom’s blog is great, because it gives you an understanding of the problems and commonalities between various process/workflow/orchestration technologies. I faffed about with Werkflow though a few revisions, all failing miserably.
I think workflow (and rules) will ultimately be [...]

I got back from my first ever JavaOne, and I’d have to say it was a success.
First the obligatory “look how cool I am” section…
Name dropping
Misc
Drank too much with Hani of the BileBlog. Congratulated Cameron & John Purdy at the Tangosol party. Finally met Phil Dodds and Brett Porter, from DevZuz. Dan [...]