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Sun, 10 Jun 2007 00:52:44 +0000

[...] Hani Suleiman [...]

By: Patrick Chanezon

Patrick Chanezon — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:44:29 +0000

I was glad to finally meet you in person.
Keep up with the healthy criticism, although I enjoyed Guillaume’s presentation very much, you missed some juicy bileable absurd quotes from the ThoughWorks guy about test driven madness.
Too bad you left early, I would have liked to have more time chatting with you.

By: Remember Objective

Remember Objective — Wed, 23 May 2007 14:02:15 +0000

I just thought I should get back to Java this morning, so I dnloaded Grails…have to think about salary range, PHP and RoR doesn’t really pay much because they’re not complicated enough to use.

By: sliding along nicely

sliding along nicely — Thu, 10 May 2007 06:57:01 +0000

I was groovy back in the 60s, but didn’t go out on rails much as British Rail really didn’t have a very reliable service.

By: Anonymous Howard

Anonymous Howard — Tue, 08 May 2007 21:29:42 +0000

There once was this guy who learned Ruby -
It made him feel hot hip and Groovy.
“When everything else fails
Just write web apps in Rails!”
Said the asshatted chozgobbling booby.

By: Dr. Confused

Dr. Confused — Tue, 08 May 2007 14:46:57 +0000

Hani the Spiderman? hahahahahaha hehehehehe hahahahaha!!! hysterical

By: Darryl Pentz

Darryl Pentz — Tue, 08 May 2007 14:12:14 +0000

What I want to know, is how Hani gets away with saying the stuff he does about people he undoubtedly encounters on a daily basis. :-)

Truly remarkable. Hani, the real Spiderman!

By: monkey fuel

monkey fuel — Tue, 08 May 2007 11:02:31 +0000

Hani, I want you to know that a lot of us out here are relying on you for clear and unbiased reporting on JavaOne. Keep up the good work.

By: Marc Palmer

Marc Palmer — Tue, 08 May 2007 10:24:41 +0000

Hani… while bile is your business I think you’re being a little harsh in places - but then with a vested interest as a Grails dev I would say this :)

Growl notifications - such a minor featurette I hacked together to show people how the event hooks work in Grails scripts. As you don’t use Grails yourself you don’t seem to appreciate the usefulness of this but other people do - when multitasking in your work it is very nice to leave some other “long” task running and come back to it when you know it is complete instead of manually “polling” it. The point behind this demo functionality however is that a bunch of other automation is possible using the same hooks (i.e. CVS/SVN automation for people who don’t use IDEs for this).

As for mashups, I agree with you on the weirdness of “X + Y = WTF?” mashups. However these serve the purpose of showing people that they can, in very short space of time, get Web 2.0 stuff happening. Whether or not one is a Web 2.0 believer is another matter, but Web 2.0 sells right now. I’m a Web 1.0 / 1.5 man myself :)

By: Romain Guy

Romain Guy — Tue, 08 May 2007 08:21:40 +0000

Too bad you didn’t stay to see my Swing demo crafter in 40 minutes :))

By: sofa

sofa — Tue, 08 May 2007 08:03:06 +0000

First