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BEA Systems acquires Fuego Old news: BEA Systems acquired Fuego Inc.. Starting March 1st, virtually all Fuego employees (including myself) became BEA employees. There are few organizational changes,...
Airport "Security" Jokes I'm at the Saint Louis International airport (STL), waiting to board on my flight back to Dallas. I have just experienced another stupidity of the airport (in)security...
AntDoclet After nearly two years of procrastination, I finally decided to spend some time on wrapping things up and putting AntDoclet online for public consumption. AntDoclet is a...
My Job Went to India... If you work as a software developer for a living, I recommend you get a copy of "My Job Went to India". Ignore the curious title and funny cover. It's about planning...
Quality of Experience I'm surely stating the obvious here (I hope!), but what seems obvious for some people is not so for others. Work Experience should not be expressed in years. There's a quality...
Version Control Systems and Open Source If you haven't looked at the available Version Control Systems lately, you'd better look again. About 5 years ago, CVS was pretty much the only open source Version Control...
Graphical Thread Dumps I am surprised by the high number of Java developers I meet that do not know what a Java Thread Dump is or how to generate one. I find it a very powerful tool, and it is...
AT&T Text to Speech A co-worker pointed me to AT&T Natural Voices, a Text-to-Speech research project from AT&T. I tried the online demo and I'm really impressed. It's been a long while...
Baby Pilar is here This is old news already, and although it's not about Software, it's definitely about Development :-) I'm happy to share that Pilar, my second daughter, was born last a couple...
Micro and Blind Optimizations Yesterday, a good friend of mine and ex-coworker contacted to me to share his frustration. (he hates to be called "Polino", so I won't.. doh!) He finished a software...