As Amanda notes,
I'm riding with 46 other folks (and lots of beer) on a bus from Michigan to devLink
in Tennessee, as part of sponsoring the show. (I think she got my language preferences
just a teensy bit mixed up, though.)

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I've been asked to put together a list of the "best" Java resources that every up-and-coming
Java developer should have, and I'd like this list to be as comprehensive as possible
and, more importantly, reflect more than just my own opinion. So, either through comments
or through email, let me know what you think
the best Java resources are in the following categories:

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Steve
Yegge posted the transcript from a talk on dynamic languages that he gave at Stanford.

Cedric Beust posted a response to
Steve's talk, espousing statically-typed languages.

Numerous comments and flamewars erupted, not to mention a Star Wars analogy (which always makes
things more fun).

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Steve
Vinoski thinks to deflate my arguments with suppositions and presumptions, which
I cannot simply let stand.

(Sorry, Steve-O, but I think you're out in left field on this one. I'm happy to
argue it further with you over beer, but if you want the last word, have at it, and
we'll compare scores when we run into each other at the next conference.)

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Recently, a former student asked me,

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Not too long ago, Don
wrote:

The three most “personal” choices a developer makes are language, tool, and OS.

No.

That may be true for somebody who works for a large commercial or open source vendor,
whose team is building something that fits into one of those three categories and
wants to see that language/tool/OS succeed.

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A couple of folks have taken me to task over some of the things I said... or didn't say... in my last blog piece. So, in no particular order, let's discuss.

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This just recently crossed my Inbox, this time from Redmond Developer News, and once again I'm simply amazed at the audacity of the message and rather far-fetched conclusion:

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So I see, via the blogosphere, that a Java 6 update is available for the Mac, so I run off to the Apple website to download the package. Click on the link, and I'm happy. Wait....

It's for 64-bit Intel Macs only?!?

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Recently, it has become the fad to weigh in on the Groovy vs JRuby debate, usually along the lines of "Which is X?", where X is one of "better", "faster", "more powerful", "more acceptable", "easier", and so on. (Everybody seems to have their own adjective/adverb to slide in there, so I won't even begin to try to list them all.)

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From Wikipedia (itself a
source of conceptual folk etymology, but that's another rant):

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From the "Where the hell was I that day?" Department....

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(Editor's note: This post is likely to open a huge can of whoop-*ss on this blog,
so unless you want to get caught up in the huge bar fight that's about to break out,
you're advised to take your whiskey or beer and head outside for a smoke until the
cops come.)

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Over on Channel 9, the
video interview recorded with me during Lang.NET has gone live. Have a look, tell
me what you think.

This email crossed my desk yesterday, courtesy of the MVP program:

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