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Texas Twang

Hmm, is there an upsurge of general interest in linguistics lately? I just watched the last half of "Do You Speak American?" last night on PBS, and now Yahoo! is running a story on the Texas twang. I moved to Texas from the Midwest when I was 5, and aside from a few "y'alls" and the occasional "tump" or "fixin' to", I never picked up the accent. In fact, quite the opposite: the constant teasing over my nasal Midwesternisms purged nearly all regionalism from my speech.

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Posted at 10:31PM Jan 06, 2005 by Todd Fast in General  |  Comments[0]
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Web Service Standards List

A handy list of Web service standards from BEA.

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Posted at 10:27PM Jan 06, 2005 by Todd Fast in Web  |  Comments[0]
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Turn me into Ali G

Would you believe that Ali G has a blog discussing Java enterprise tools, Web services, NetBeans, and developer collaboration? Read for yourself, courtesy of da Ali G Translata.

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Posted at 09:56PM Jan 06, 2005 by Todd Fast in General  |  Comments[0]
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Back to work: Project Kittyhawk & Project Disco

Well, back to work after the holidays; it'll be quite a busy year. Although I wish I could spend time on several projects, I'll be focusing much less on developer collaboration in Java Studio Enterprise (JSE) this year. Though I will continue in an advisory role as architect emeritus, Ayub Khan and Sheryl Su, the primary developer collaboration engineers, will be taking over.

Instead, I will spend the vast majority of my time architecting the SOA and Web Services tools for Project Kittyhawk in JSE. Internally, we call this effort Project Disco, a prototype of which we demoed at JavaOne 2004 (see screenshot). Project Disco is all about tools for creating and orchestrating component-based, enterprise, "ACDC" (asynchronous, conversational, document-centric) Web services. I'll be living and breathing Web services (not to mention a dozen or so WS-* specs) all this year, so expect to see plenty of posts on these topics, as well as updates on our progress.

Happy new year!

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Posted at 08:55PM Jan 06, 2005 by Todd Fast in NetBeans  |  Comments[0]
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