MaryMaryQuiteContrary

remember Inside Jack from JavaOne?



Scott McNealy gave Jack a little coming out party in his keynote at the conference.

well it turns out that a certain high-ranking (VP) somebody at Sun is having t-shirts made up with Inside Jack on them.

"No, I will not fix your computer."

guess who secured (the promise of) a t-shirt to give away to a very lucky MaryMaryQuiteContary reader.

you know it.

so as soon as we get that bird in hand, we'll be giving it away. stay tuned.

shift, reload.

meanwhile, check out the clip. it's well worth watching. you might just get a chuckle (or two) out of it.

mary

just when you thought i couldn't sink any lower...

here's a picture of what i'm having for lunch.


lentil soup. olives. bagel chips.

(i just got off my boss' staff meeting; hadn't eaten; go downstairs to get lunch; the digital camera was on the counter; couldn't resist.)

eating at my desk today.

still got tons of unread email to deal with.

mary

Sun Labs announced new research showing significantly increased
Java2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) scalability without
losing strong isolation guarantees.  Researchers on the Barcelona
team developed and applied the Multi-tasking Virtual Machine (MVM)
to the J2EE 1.3.1 reference implementation to obtain these exciting
results.

check it out. 

mary

10 days left until the nation which gave us the Olympics welcomes them home.



in celebration (and anticipation) we'll be doing a count-down.

here's youre quote-of-the-day:

"As in the daytime there is no star in the sky warmer and brighter than the sun, likewise there is no competition greater than the Olympic Games."
Pindar, Greek lyric poet, 5th century bc.

mary

stay cool with some hot summer reading.

check out this article that ran on java.net. it was written by celebrated author Bruce Hopkins who just happens to be in that very tightly knit and exclusive community of techno celebs who are my close personal friends. guess what else... Bruce Hopkins is a former Friday Free Stuff winner.

scout's honor. it's true.

pop quiz: what do you and Bruce Hopkins have in common? you're both MaryMaryQuiteContary readers. maybe one day you'll win Friday Free Stuff too. then you can go on to write a book and you can be a celebrated author and techno celeb too, just like Bruce. possibilities are endless. and it all starts with reading this blog, can you believe it?

(i just love thinking about stuff like that... you should see the fantasies i get going when the lottery gets up to $100 million and i buy a ticket -- a dollar for a dream... well worth it just for it's entertainment value. even though i think lotteries are poor man's tax... we digress...)

so the article is about Java and Bluetooth. you get an intro to the Bluetooth protocol, classes and methods of JSR-82 (the Java Bluetooth API) and gives you an overview of the software you'll need to get started.

there's a bright golden haze on the meadow.

mary

p.s. wanna find out more about the JCP -- the mother of all JSRs? Tune in to the Java Live chat on the JCP featuring Onno Kluyt (aka Duke of JCP and close personal friend of my favorite Dutch developer, Klaasjan Tukker). Not to toot my own horn, but not too long ago a certain MaryMaryQuiteContary reader sent me mail w/q's about the JCP. (we won't be naming the individual as i did not secure his permission. and you'll remember the trouble i got myself into for talking about he-who-must-not-be-named without permission. we won't be doing that again.) Anyway, since i'm so well connected around here (toot, toot... that's my horn again), i pitch the guy who runs the Java Live program on doing one on JCP. the rest is history. so i take full credit for this, even though i didn't actually do anything to make it happen. hey, doesn't that make me management material?

p.p.s. what are you waiting for? read the article. then go buy Bruce's book.

:-)

p.p.p.s. i missed you too.