Last year I had the opportunity to return to the land of my roots, Poland, and speak
at Java Developer Days (JDD). Just today, the organizers from JDD sent me a link with a
nice little photo montage from the conference. (I did notice a few photos from
the after-party were selectively left out of the montage, however, which is probably
a good thing because that was the first time I'd ever met a Polish Mad Dog, and boy
did they all go down easy...)

Read more ...

From Scott
Hanselman's blog:

Read more ...

From Scott
Hanselman's blog:

Read more ...

From Scott
Hanselman's blog:

Read more ...

Chris Sells, an acquaintance (and perhaps friend, when he's not picking on me for
my Java leanings) of mine from my DevelopMentor days, has a habit of putting on a
"DevCon" whenever a technology seems to have reached a certain maturity level. He
did it with XML a few years ago, and ATL before that, both of which were pretty amazing
events, filled with the sharpest guys in the subject, gathered into a single room
to share ideas and shoot each others' pet theories full of holes.

Read more ...

Chris Sells, an acquaintance (and perhaps friend, when he's not picking on me for
my Java leanings) of mine from my DevelopMentor days, has a habit of putting on a
"DevCon" whenever a technology seems to have reached a certain maturity level. He
did it with XML a few years ago, and ATL before that, both of which were pretty amazing
events, filled with the sharpest guys in the subject, gathered into a single room
to share ideas and shoot each others' pet theories full of holes.

Read more ...

Chris Sells, an acquaintance (and perhaps friend, when he's not picking on me for
my Java leanings) of mine from my DevelopMentor days, has a habit of putting on a
"DevCon" whenever a technology seems to have reached a certain maturity level. He
did it with XML a few years ago, and ATL before that, both of which were pretty amazing
events, filled with the sharpest guys in the subject, gathered into a single room
to share ideas and shoot each others' pet theories full of holes.

Read more ...

For a couple of years now, I've been going around the world and giving a talk entitled
"Pragmatic Architecture", talking both about what architecture is (and what architects
really do), and ending the talk with my own "catalog" of architectural elements and
ideas, in an attempt to take some of the mystery and "cloud" nature of architecture
out of the discussion. If you've read Effective Enterprise Java, then you've
read the first version of that discussion, where Pragmatic Architecture was a second-generation
thought process.

Read more ...

For a couple of years now, I've been going around the world and giving a talk entitled
"Pragmatic Architecture", talking both about what architecture is (and what architects
really do), and ending the talk with my own "catalog" of architectural elements and
ideas, in an attempt to take some of the mystery and "cloud" nature of architecture
out of the discussion. If you've read Effective Enterprise Java, then you've
read the first version of that discussion, where Pragmatic Architecture was a second-generation
thought process.

Read more ...

For a couple of years now, I've been going around the world and giving a talk entitled
"Pragmatic Architecture", talking both about what architecture is (and what architects
really do), and ending the talk with my own "catalog" of architectural elements and
ideas, in an attempt to take some of the mystery and "cloud" nature of architecture
out of the discussion. If you've read Effective Enterprise Java, then you've
read the first version of that discussion, where Pragmatic Architecture was a second-generation
thought process.

Read more ...

People are used to the idea of phishing attacks showing up in their email, but in
glowing testament to the creativity of potential attackers, Twitter recently has seen
a rash of phishing attacks through Twitter's "direct messaging" feature.

Read more ...

People are used to the idea of phishing attacks showing up in their email, but in
glowing testament to the creativity of potential attackers, Twitter recently has seen
a rash of phishing attacks through Twitter's "direct messaging" feature.

Read more ...

People are used to the idea of phishing attacks showing up in their email, but in
glowing testament to the creativity of potential attackers, Twitter recently has seen
a rash of phishing attacks through Twitter's "direct messaging" feature.

Read more ...

It's once again that time of year, and in keeping with my tradition, I'll revisit
the 2008 predictions to see how close I came before I start waxing prophetic on the
coming year. (I'm thinking that maybe the next year--2010's edition--I should actually
take a shot at predicting the next decade, but I'm not sure if I'd remember to go
back and revisit it in 2020 to see how I did. Anybody want to set a calendar reminder
for Dec 31 2019 and remind me, complete with URL? ;-) )

Without further preamble, here's what I said for 2008:

Read more ...

It's once again that time of year, and in keeping with my tradition, I'll revisit
the 2008 predictions to see how close I came before I start waxing prophetic on the
coming year. (I'm thinking that maybe the next year--2010's edition--I should actually
take a shot at predicting the next decade, but I'm not sure if I'd remember to go
back and revisit it in 2020 to see how I did. Anybody want to set a calendar reminder
for Dec 31 2019 and remind me, complete with URL? ;-) )

Without further preamble, here's what I said for 2008:

Read more ...