Thursday September 29, 2005

Doing the 'Elvis has left the building' routine

Tomorrow, Friday September 30th, is my last day at Sun. It has been 8.47 years, by far an all time record, including personal relationships. First it was Sun IT, then eCommerce and finally Portal, 100% Java almost from the beginning, JDK 1.1 was just out from the oven, my first program was a notepad using AWT, the second one was a peer to peer chatting room using RMI (Atul still makes fun of me saying 'Come see, did some Java') , third one was a mini application server based on RMI as well, they even made me file a patent on it. I've been lucky to work under the *protection* of Mita, Abhay and Yee and with tons of great engineers, many of them become very good friends in the process, I went all the way to India for the wedding of one of them and to the dreadful land of Texas for the termination (yes, got married as well) of another. With JSR168, WSRP and ROME I've got the chance to work, learn and argue with sharp people from all over. Earlier this year I've been working in India for a few months, a truly fantastic experience, the people, the place; the low-point was my failed attempt of convincing Chandra, the driver, to call me 'Alejandro' instead of 'Sir', he would just reply with a 'Yes Sir' to my requests.

What I'm trying to say is that regardless of my reasons for leaving, putting all things in the scale, it tips all the way to IT WAS GREAT, IT WAS FUN.

So, what's next for me? My belongings are in storage, they've been there since March, got a ticket for next week, a small backpack, a camera, a diving computer and about 4 months to spend in Southeast Asia.

I guess this will be the last entry in this blog. I'll show up somewhere else when I'm back.

For sure ROME will be well taken care of while I'm gone. And in the case of JSR168 NEXT, I hope a 'Things to Do in Denver When You Are Dead' happens soon.

Cheers.

Tucu (tucu0[THE FUNNY a]yahoo.com)

Thursday September 08, 2005

ROME 0.7 is available

ROME v0.7 Beta and ROME Fetcher v0.7 Beta are available.

What is new:

• A cool logo
• Bug fixes
• Several Date and time parsing improvements including support for custom parsing masks
• Fix for leaking URL Connections which could cause problems in long running applications using ROME Fetcher

For the full list of changes, fixes and additions refer to the ROME Changes Log and the ROME Fetcher Changes Log

ROME still does not have support for Atom 1.0 nor the Content module. We are planing on adding support for them in a future release.