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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

JBoss.ORG represents the opensource side of the house. Though, for some reason, we look just like the commercial side of the house.

You also end up at labs.jboss.com even though you typed jboss.org into your browser. Quite odd.
No really, we are kinda sorta separate from the mothership.
To help differentiate between the two, and try [...]

As noted previously, many of our projects are capable of sustaining a vibrant sub-community. This includes portlets, ESB connectors, side-projects like Drools.NET, things to jack into JCA, or even our growing collection of JSF things.
There’s activity related to these communities that .ORG needs to support. We’ll be making it easier for these friendly [...]

If you don’t measure, you can’t tell if you’re doing things right or wrong.
You can measure downloads (accounting for spiders, bots and attacks), site visits, RSS subscriptions, site registrations, forum posts. All sorts of things.
You can measure how many issues are opening in JIRA versus those that were closed in the last week. [...]

There’s people out there talking about us and our projects. They’re blogging. They’re writing articles. They’re speaking at conferences.
And we don’t necessarily promote them on JBoss.ORG very well yet.
We need to start pointing out to our community when others in the community are speaking.
Del.icio.us can help.
Every day, JBoss developers and community members [...]

Tomek and Mark are working together to figure out our wiki/CMS strategy. Ultimately, we have the use-cases of

Easy-to-use for developers & community members
Freakin’ pretty to look at
Browsable through a portlet on jboss.org
Versioned (just like the code it matches)
Multiple formats (HTML, PDF)
Multiple languages

We’re not sure what form this will all take, but it’s the goal.
We [...]