Dazed & Confused

Refactoring to Patterns shows you how to solve concrete problems by reafactoring into patterns. Excellent. Another book I should read.

It sounds sweet. I’m extremely tempted to try. Read the story here.

http://www.portforward.com/
This site gives you free help setting up your router/firewall. It also has a list telling you which ports different games and applications will need.

JavaZone is over. I don’t have many other conferences to compare it with, but I thought it was excellent. The following is a short summary of what I attended. I have a lousy memory so I should have written stuff down, but I’m too lazy.

Test-Driven Development – Johannes Brodwall and Trond Pedersen – [...]

Rands is writing about what to do when you’re screwed. I’ve just discovered this guy, but he writes a lot of good stuff.

Another opensource CMS. This one is Java and it seems comprehensible. I’ll have to check it out.

Rands writes about incrementalists & completionists. It reminds me about the talk Pål Fure held last wednesday about accepting and embracing differences to create a culture for innovation. You need them all in an organisation.
Via Joel.

This article at java.net is excellent. It reviews some of the biggest changes in the Tiger release in context of the Java philosophy. It actually sums up a lot of why I really like java. Keep it plain and simple.

Yep, I got my first massive comment spam hit today. Thanks to WordPress it wasn’t too big a deal to get rid of them. If I get hit more I’ll have to take some steps to make it harder.

I was trying to explain to a friend today what I don’t like about the way .NET works. It’s hard, because at the bottom line they are not all that different. I’m making an effort these days to read stuff from the pro .NET side to understand it better.
Malcom Davis has a piece on [...]