... with my earlier speaking
about F# post, which I will admit, surprises me, since I would've thought somebody
interested in promoting F# would've been more supportive of the idea of putting some
ideas out to help other speakers get F# more easily adopted by the community. Perhaps
I misunderstood her objections, but I thought a response was required in any event.

Amanda opens with:

Let's start with the "Do" category.

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Michael Easter called me out over Twitter tonight, entirely fairly. This blog post
is to attempt to make right.

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A couple of days ago, a buddy of mine, Scott Hanselman, wrote a
nice little intro to the "dynamic" type in C# 4.0.

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Cruising the Web late last night, I ran across "10
things you can do to advance your career as a developer", summarized below:

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Here we go again—another year, another set of predictions revisited and offered up
for the next 12 months. And maybe, if I'm feeling really ambitious, I'll take that
shot I thought about last year and try predicting for the decade.

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Why study new and different programming languages? To change your programming mindset.
Not sure what I mean by that? Check this out.

Ever done one of these?

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These are the things I think as I sit here in my resort hotel on the edge of the Dead
Sea in Israel after the JavaEdge
2009 conference on Thursday:

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Paul asked me to review this, his first book, and my comment to him was that he had
a pretty high bar to match; being of the same "series" as Release It!,
Mike Nygard's take on building software ready for production (and, in my repeatedly
stated opinion, the most important-to-read book of the decade), Debug It! had
some pretty impressive shoes to fill. Paul's comment was pretty predictable: "Thanks
for keeping the pressure to a minimum."

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Those of you who've seen me speak on Java 7 at various conferences have heard me lament
(in a small way) the fact that Sun decided last year (Dec 2008) to forgo the idea
of including closures in the Java language. Imagine my surprise, then, to check my
Twitter feed and discover that, to everyone's surprise, closures are
back in as a consideration for the Java7 release.

Several thoughts come to mind:

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Phil Haack wrote a
thoughtful, insightful and absolutely correct response to my
earlier blog post. But he's still missing the point.

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