JSR-299 is a new Java specification being worked on in the Java Community Process and youngm is a member of the expert group.
Youngm keeps making inroads deep into the world of Enterprise Java. He’s also a committer on the Red Hat/JBoss Seam project. Mike has been debating with Gavin King (the found of the Hibernate project) about Seam architecture and has been winning many of those battles.
I just created a new website at http://www.funtodo.org.
First of all, many thanks to Mike, James, Mike, Herrick and Nick (and of course, Josh…)for the feedback and technical help. Nick was a lifesaver with helping me figure out how to include header/footer files with PHP. That would have been such a pain if I hadn’t had those.
First thing you’ll notice is the site still needs a lot of work. It needs to be database-driven with a detail page for each activity listed. I’m just NOT doing that manually for each entry. Huh-uh. No way. Also I need to clean up the design a bit more, set off the sidebar for readability and add some more graphics and photos for different things.
But I’d love your feedback. Please send your thoughts along and give me some feedback (positive and negative). Or if you know of something to add to the calendar, send it my way.
Our department is creating new marketing material for recruiting on college campuses. The other day they were taking a bunch of pictures and I was asked to model for them. You can see the amazing results here. Just scroll down to the bottom of the page and check out my hot modeling skillz.
I’m a model. You know what I mean? And I do my little turn on the catwalk… well, I haven’t had a chance to work the catwalk yet, but give it time.
In case you hadn’t noticed. I added some AdSense ads to the blog. I’ve wanted to set up an AdSense account for a while and finally got around to it. This blog (and my personal blog) are my test subjects. So far I’ve made $1.17. Not bad. Thanks to all of you who helped me test out the ads. Once I start making real money with this blog, we’ll incorporate TNI again and share in the wealth!
We were going to have a mini-TNI reunion last Saturday. I was planning to meet up with heathm and nickmo at the RSL game. I was really, really looking forward to it. But it didn’t turn out.
Anybody else want to join us if we go another time?
Who would have thought that this ragtag bunch of guys would have become so educated?
Several master’s degrees under way, several bachelor’s done or on the way, etc.
It would be fun to know the average graduating GPA of TNI at OHS. And then take reimda (the outlier) out of the equation and recalculate. That would be good times.
Just wanted to say congrats to all of you for how far you’ve come in the last few years. It really is amazing how much you’ve all accomplished.
Can’t we all relate to this guy’s complaints of being “the computer guy”? Fortunately, after moving I haven’t had to fix any one’s computers in my ward. I would like to keep it that way. It’s not that I mind helping people. It’s just that helping people with their computer is a like a virus. If you do it once, it spreads very quickly and soon you have the whole neighborhood calling you for tech support. Anyway, I found the link humorous and thought the rest of you would too.
So Mike and I were just debating on Google Talk how to keep people apprised of new info on here. I suggested that we recommend an RSS feed to everyone. Mike says maybe people don’t USE RSS feeds as religiously as I do. (I just started a month ago and now I’m addicted.)
He recommends the old school email method. Bah. That is sooo 1995.
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