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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.

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.

Interview on Servlets, JSP, and XQuery

Java Hispano interviewed me recently. The text is available in English or Spanish.

Bring on the Food Pellets!

After two years of happy self employment, I surprised myself last week and took a permanent job with Cerisent.

California DMV

It's going to take the CA DMV "a month" to reprogram its computers to use the new reduced VLF rate. This is the same rate we had til about 6 months ago. One wonders why they can't "cvs update -r PRE_RATE_HIKE"!

Oracle Magazine Times Three

Usually it's a not good thing when your editor calls you late at night, but this time it was.

Mailinator

A friend just set up a new site. As he said, " I know this is cool - because I will use this. Everyone I describe it to says they want to use it to. It just makes sense."

First email, then Web, now RSS

Today's a big day for me. I'm jumping on the RSS-reading bandwagon. It reminds me of my first time with email or browsing the web.

Why I stopped using vim and started using IntelliJ

A week ago a friend introduced me to IntelliJ, a new Java IDE. It's a "Programmer's IDE" and it's replaced vim for me. Here's why.

The Wonders of the WristWand

I woke up this morning with wrist pain, used the WristWand to get rid of it, and realized I should probably spread the word about this wonderful tool.

Roller: An Open Source J2EE Blogger

Turns out there is a Java-based Blogger tool; it's named "Roller" and available as open source. David Johnson writes an introductory article.

Thoughts on MovableType

In case you're curious what blogging software I'm using, it's called MovableType, and it's a free Perl/CGI package available...