Day: November 29, 2002

Greg points out:

The Lizard has landed! ‘Nuf said. Go get it while it’s hot.

Doc points to Technorati, which is tracking my blog.

Phillip Pearson is working on a weblog browser of his own.  It’s not as pretty as Brent’s, but he doesn’t have Quartz and Aqua to work with.  Keep it up!

Chris Sells has two rules for coding standards:

1. All code will use spaces instead of tabs.
2. All new code in an existing file will match the existing style.

Paresh Suthar has some thoughts on the subject:

<Rant> Suck it up.  Your primary responsibility to the company is to write quality code.  You secondary responsibility to the company is to write maintainable code.  If you’re a reasonably talented developer, it will take you about 2 weeks to adopt a new naming/formatting convention </Rant>

I missed the launch of the java.blogs community while I was out of town.  I see several weblogs that I read regularly, and several that I’ve never read.  Excellent work, guys.  I really do need to get around to creating channels so that I can send my java-related rantings to the community.

The Register:

Results of a survey of software developers suggest that nearly half of all web services are being deployed outside the enterprise firewall to bridge business partners with an access route to company data.

Codemonk:

For the past few days I’ve been working on a new project, called Journal.NET. (I know, what an original title?) Since I’ve taken to writing a lot more fiction these days, and not just code, I’ve also wanted to keep a journal again. But after surfing around for a bit I couldn’t find any decent journal keeping software. What does a programmer do in a case like that? Why, he writes his own, of course 🙂 In this case, I’m using VB.NET. I should have version 1.0 up here in a few days.

Cool!  I’ll try to play around with it when he releases it.

Pardon me while I scramble to catch up.  I need to write a semi-formal review of Prey, perhaps submitting it to Slashdot.  I’ll probably end up manually catching up on some weblogs, as I’m sure that my RSS catchup will miss a few.  It’s dog slow at work today.  Nobody visits the mom ‘n pop shops on black friday, they’re all at the mall.

I’m back in Maryland an actually in front of a keyboard.