May 2006

Post JavaOne

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After a red-eye return flight from JavaOne, and a couple of days catching up on my personal todo list, it’s time to get back to work.

Working as an independent, the decision matrix for things like conferences is a little different, but my overall impression was that it was worth going to JavaOne. It was my first time, and probably will not be my last. It provided an opportunity to spend time with those for whom and with whom I have worked over the last year that I probably would not have had otherwise.

My first todo generated by the conference is to join JCP, and become involved with JSR-295 which deals with JavaBeans and data binding. I had planned on packaging and releasing a data binding framework under some open source license (developed with help from others) soon, but JSR-295 appears to take a very similar approach to binding.

If there are good business reasons to approach a problem domain differently that existing tools or frameworks, I don’t have a problem with doing so. But, in this case, it appears that what JSR-295 will be developing will cover the most common and useful use cases that my framework handles. Hopefully, some of my code will be useful to the project.

Web site redesign

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After a couple of years of stagnation with only minor tweaks, I decided to to an overhaul. At first I was going to simply update the projects and experience areas using my old style, but that didn’t quite seem good enough.

Over the coming weeks and months, I will be releasing a couple of Java frameworks under an open license, and I needed a way to share what’s good about them with potential users, and to receive good feedback from clients and other users.

I had used WordPress for a personal project last year, and was impressed with it’s ability to let me get simple things done simply without keeping me from doing other things I wanted.

These three items have brought me to this point, sitting in my hotel the night before JavaOne putting the final tweaks on release 0.1 of my new website. I’m sure I will be tweaking, moving, and rearranging for several days or weeks (I am a tinkerer at heart), but the basic structure seems good to me.

— Doug