Dazed & Confused

Interesting post about hiring developers..

I should read up on this some day. I’m not convinced on XP but it has some good ideas. And the insight wouldn’t hurt would it? Let me know if it’s a balanced one or not.
Via devblog.

For those of you that don’t know, Geronimo is the Apache projects J2EE app server. It have moved from the incubator to a root project of apache.
It is a direct competitor to JBOSS. I’ve never used either, but I’m a big fan of other products coming out of Apache so I’m looking forward to [...]

Got the link to SonyEricsson S700 Whitepaper (you need to register) through SEs newsletter. It looks like one sweet piece of machinery. Just wish they could forget about the MemorySticks and go with SD like everyone else.

Some interesting .NET tools coming out of MicroSoft. Would be interesting to see them in action, they sound great. MicroSoft’s Giving Away Its Most Prized Tools.

Computas is speaking about BIE at the next JavaBIN meeting. Looks quite interesting.
Check it out at: What is BIE?

Alright. So I’m a newbie to this and I need to look at all the sides, but this will surely be one of the books I’m planning to read: Expert One-on-One J2EE Development without EJB

http://www.dhruvaraj.com/javaBooks.htm

Looks like the intelligence before the war might have been a bit influenced by people with other motives than liberating the Iraqi people. Who would have thought?
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | US intelligence fears Iran duped hawks into Iraq war

Damn. I’ve never really liked the SUV trend. They’re too big, and they use too much gas. And in the event you hit someone with it you can be sure they’re killed.
Crash Testing: MINI Cooper vs Ford F150 shows a pretty bad image of one of the most popular SUVs in the US. I’m not [...]