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JavaOne is next week. Would you believe this is the first JavaOne I’ll ever have attended?
Some of my colleagues have put together a page detailing JBoss’s participation at the conference.
Speakers from JBoss include Gavin King and Emmanuel Bernard, Michael Yuan, Tom Baeyens and many others.
I’ll be hanging out at Booth #1418 along with James [...]

While you sit down to enjoy that turkey or tofurkey sandwich at your desk, perhaps you could surf over to JBoss.ORG and marvel at the new design, organization and layout.
The team that pulled this together includes Adam Warski, Tomek Szymanski, Rysiek Kozmik, Przemek Dej, Pawel Wrzeszcz, Mark Newton, James Cobb and Meriah Garrett. Assists [...]

Today, my Canadian friend Jason van Zyl announced his new company based around all things maven.
Jason, as you may know, is the founder of both Maven and the first maven-centric company, Mergere. For some history, Mergere was a child of Simula Labs. Simula started life as a VC-ish incubator, but now seems to [...]

It’s Friday, and we all like having friends, so…

myspace.com/codehaus
myspace.com/jboss_org

And don’t act like you don’t have a MySpace account. You know you do.

I applaud the recent announcement between JBoss (Red Hat) and Exadel.
JBoss, through Seam, is committed to JSF, the standard view framework for Java EE applications. The Exadel components represent a nice set of JSF-compatible chunks to help build rich applications, using AJAX and such.
To be honest, I’m still learning JSF myself.
But from a business [...]

I’m going to be in Austin, Texas all next week for the Day Job. Seems like most folks I used to know in Austin have moved to Houston or other places. If you are in Austin, and particularly if you want to buy me some beers, let me know.
I don’t know the area, [...]

Monday morning, I woke up to find myself transformed into a Red Hat employee.
Yes, that’s right, I’ve joined Red Hat. More specifically, I joined JBoss, a division of Red Hat, to lead up JBoss.ORG. You may recall that a little more than a year ago, JBoss acquired the Drools business rule engine. [...]

Well, as of this evening, I’m willfully unemployed. At least for a few days.
For about the past 18 months, I’ve had a kick-ass time working with the smart folkses over at Radar Networks. It was my first-ever experience in a funded startup and was certainly exciting. I watched us grow from about [...]

Hat’s off to Guillaume and all the other cool kids who pushed Groovy to a 1.0 release. My original hand-rolled parser is long-gone, but I still wish for the best for these guys.
I think it’s cool, too, that they are having concurrent parties across the globe to celebrate.

Following on the heels of my last post, I’d like to announce the Ruby Underground. It’s simply a selective aggregator of Ruby blogger content. There’s already plenty of sources for generic ruby content. Tons of 20-something youngsters (yes, I’m old) are out there talking about Ruby on Rails and such.
The Ruby Underground [...]