Not doing quite so well here - South America is a somewhere I am keen to go (eh, Bruno?) -- Posted by Simon Phipps to WebMink at 2/23/2004 12:20:16 AM...
I've been travelling a lot again and not been in the mood to blog much, I have to admit. I wasn't too pleased by Darryl Taft's "quote" from EclipseCon (which...
The Call for Papers for Colorado Software Summit 2004 is out - papers on current non-Microsoft software expertise will be extremely welcome, and I'd love to...
Seems old friend and still-conservative-ex-IBM-VP John Patrick really likes OpenOffice.org , even if he can't bring himself to mention Sun in connection with...
The Call for Papers for Colorado Software Summit 2004 is out - papers on current non-Microsoft software expertise will be extremely welcome, and I'd love to...
I wrote a while back (the Nader letter that penty of people wrote to me about but Eric didn't like ) with a link to The Onion's article in 2001 jokingly...
Seems old friend and still-conservative-ex-IBM-VP John Patrick really likes OpenOffice.org , even if he can't bring himself to mention Sun in connection with...
In a pretty good crop , wise words for UK restauranteurs (who, broadly, I don't visit any more): "Isn't having a smoking section in a restaurant like having a...
Darryl Taft implies negative things about my honesty in this interview with Eric Raymond: Well, if it's the incident I think you're referring to, I am that...
Personally I was really pleased to see an interview with my boss talking about RSS and how Sun intends to implement it in future offerings. So I was kinda...
One thing that does come out of the thread is the one thing that has been driving me nuts over the last few days particularly. The lack of a decent HTML...
That looks like a good example of where an open source model would have worked better for Swing. Someone would have fixed that long ago if it were possible for...
While I agree to a point, I think the problem is that /many/ people would have fixed it in subtly different ways. While this would have been richness for the...
Ted Leung takes me to task for making him expect the list of Sun bloggers would be full of incisive Java commentary (or, indeed, full of commentary). I plead...
... better for Swing. Sorry, but, that's just not true. If it were, then there would be an open source fully functional browser component which was regarded as...
Dare Obasanjo (a Microsoft employee, who I doubt is trying to score points and who I have actually met despite the appearance otherwise) tries to change the...
... No, the way I see it work is there would be one official reference implementation and the committers for that implementation would fix it one way. Even if...
... I prefer to think that the "browser component" has gotten implemented and reimplemented so many times because there was no standard open source reference...
Donald Rumsfeld, US Defence Secretary: "You and a few other critics are the only people I have heard use the phrase 'immediate threat' - I didn't, the...
Just a quick note to say there have been a few additions and changes on the list of Bloggers@Sun , obviously adding Tim Bray but also adding Onno Kluyt and...
Need a high-traffic feed with news from the Java community (& hangers-on like me!) - look no further than PlanetJava . (and it's a big "hi" to all sentient...
I'll be delivering a public lecture in Brisbane, Australia, this coming Tuesday. The subject will be the future dynamics of open source software development. ...
Need a high-traffic feed with news from the Java community (& hangers-on like me!) - look no further than PlanetJava . (and it's a big "hi" to all sentient...
Computerworld Australia filed a fascinating story today (also in LinuxWorld Australia ) that says a lot about journalistic presuppositions and very little...
Sorry for the pause - the Sun team in Australia and New Zealand has been running me ragged on my speaking tour down here. I visited Brisbane, Sydney and...
Many thanks to Mark Jones for mediating a good-humoured response from Julian Bajkowski. First time I have had an e-hug delivered by blog - thanks Julian :-) --...
Many thanks to Mark Jones for mediating a good-humoured response from Julian Bajkowski. First time I have had an e-hug delivered by blog - thanks Julian :-) --...
Seems it is one of those weeks. First Sun & Microsoft settle early , with Scott and Steve exchanging sport shirts and cracking jokes with each other rather...
Having problems with message search?
Fill out this form to ensure your group is one of the first to be migrated to the new message search system.
