J2SE: JDC Chat session about 1.4.2BETA

Java Developer Chat about J2SE1.4.2 BETA is on Tuesday. Make sure your questions get answered. This is the best opportunity if you need some clarification about 1.4.2 features. Refer to my old Blog for change notes and Release notes for 1.4.2.

JAVA: How To Write Unmaintainable Code

A Must read for every programmer. Also refer to inconsistencies in J2SE. All the Sun's Coding and Naming Conventions are posted in previous Blog.

General: Dell's directives

Here are Michael Dell's Directives for successful business as mentioned here:
1. Spend money to succeed, not to impress.
2. Anything that can be measured can be improved.
3. Curiosity is a rare commodity — develop it.
4. Ambitious people focus on career. Successful people focus on results.

A must read for every Techie with an ambition:

HOW CAN A GUY CLIMB THE LADDER MORE EFFICIENTLY?
People obsessed with their careers don't do as well as those who are obsessed with results. If you have one person always asking, "When's the next promotion?" and another person asking, "How can I help?" it's pretty obvious which one is making a bigger contribution.
WHAT WOULD YOU DELETE?
The way people focus on the boss, as opposed to focusing on results. You don't totally ignore the boss, but the person in charge has a lot more to worry about than just you, and you have to worry about a lot more than just the boss. You've got to worry about your peers, the organization, your customers. If you're a good teammate, a good leader, if you're helpful and provide great value to your customers, that's going to be far more valuable to the organization than just focusing on the boss.

Were You at the First-Ever JavaOne?

Read the Quotes from first JavaOne here.

AOP: No Free and Good tutorial

I have been looking for a Good AOP tutorial (Not one which involves APECTJ) and I couldn't find even a single reasonably good one. Hopefully someone will post a good AOP Docs.

The Best I have found so far is I want my AOP!, Part 1

JBOSS: JBossGroup thinks JBOSS Users are PIGS?

Here is the mail send by Bill Burke to jboss-development Mailing list asking members of list to cheat on JDJ awards:

From: Bill Burke vote for jboss on JDJ 2003-04-09 06:44 Hey everybody, sorry for the junk mail. Just wondering if you could cast your vote for JBoss as Best Appserver at JDJ. Suspiciously, JDJ left us off the ballot until a bunch of people complained so we missed at least a week of voting! Please take some time to vote for us and tell your friends and colleagues. In fact, vote as many times as you have an email address! here's the link: http://www.sys-con.com/java/readerschoice2003/vote.cfm Thanks all, and sorry to bother you. Regards, XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Bill Burke Chief Architect JBoss Group, LLC XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Cast your vote for JBoss as JDJ Best App Server http://www.sys-con.com/java/readerschoice2003/vote.cfm

So essentially JBOSS group wants you to cheat right? Thats not it. Here is a mail sent by Marc Fleury to the same jboss-development a year ago when he thought Oracle told to its employees to cast vote for their own appserver last year:

From: marc fleury RE: JDJ Best App-Server 2002-05-20 14:08 everyone 1- go and vote 2- go and bitch (about the categories) let's make some noise, I can ***NOT** believe that Oracle would have 1600 votes, (!) just an email in the company saying "go vote or I fire your ass" and all 1600 employees of the java division went there 2 weeks ago (all at once) sweating bullets and transpiring like pigs. This industry makes me laugh, they are the piggies in the straw houses and supposedly we look like wolves from the outside, marcf

If employees of Oracle are compared to PIGS, wouldn't the same apply to JBOSS jboss-development Mailing list members?

OpenSource: Finally Someone Speaks the truth

Jonathan Schwartz Executive Vice President, Software Group at SUN talks about the differences between Open source and open standards. This a must read for every programmer who thinks Open Source is the only way. Jonathan states the importance of Open Standards.