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JDOM 1.1.2 Released

I'm happy to announce the release of JDOM 1.1.2 today. It's a drop-in replacement for JDOM 1.1.1 with more than a dozen bugs fixed.

JDOM 1.1.1 Released

We released JDOM 1.1.1 today. This release includes an important Namespace synchronization bug fix, a new SAXBuilder flag for faster parsing, an updated Jaxen library, new support for Unicode surrogate pairs, and support for the Android Dalvik VM.

New COS Release

Today I released a new version of the COS library, best known for its MultipartRequest and MultipartParser file upload components. This release adds a few browser workarounds, a new exception subtype, and support for esoteric platforms.

JDOM 1.1 Released

I just posted the JDOM 1.1 release for download. This release includes about 20 improvements and bug fixes.

iPhone 1.0.2: Beware

Did Apple fire the QA department or something?

What's on Jason's Hard Drive?

O'Reilly just posted a new article of mine titled What's on Jason's Hard Drive? It's all about document management.

Sun: First thing we do, let's fire all the lawyers

Today's big news story is that Sun will lay off 5,000 employees -- 13% of its workforce. My advice to Sun: start with the lawyers.

Verizon EV-DO: I'm Lovin It

Why a flashing blue light makes me drool.

Jason's 2006 Speaking Schedule

In case you're wondering where you can see me on this year's speaking circuit, here's my anticipated schedule.

New Features Added to Servlets 2.5

I wrote the cover story for JavaWorld this week covering the new changes in Servlets 2.5. Here's the link.

The Innovator's Dilemma: It's Happening to Java

I came to a realization this weekend. The Java web tier is suffering "The Innovator's Dilemma"...

Being BileBlogged

I've been "BileBloged". Getting "biled" is an honor. It means Hani Suleiman has dedicated one of his BileBlog entries to me, bitching and moaning as only he can. In this case he's biling about a talk I gave on open source at the TSS Symposium in Vegas this afternoon. But sadly -- instead of a good healthy lampooning of my actual beliefs and words -- Hani put words in my mouth. That's just not right. I've gotta bile back.

Jason's 2005 Speaking Schedule

Some people have been asking me when and where I'll be speaking in 2005, so here's a short rundown.

Screencasting with Jon Udell

I recently did a "screencast" with Jon Udell at Infoworld in which I demo XQuery and the MarkLogic Server. It's 12 minutes long and shows some short but powerful queries running against O'Reilly book and article content.

Blog spam on ISP reviews

The blog spammers look to be posting to any form with a "comment" field. I predict what's next...