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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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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, [...]

At the Codehaus and at JBoss.org, I’ve continually come across Subversion repositories that needed to be split apart or merged, perhaps after converting from CVS. One problem you continually hit, particularly if you’re merging repositories, is the “date order of revisions” bug. Simply stated, if you create a new repository loaded from two [...]

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 [...]