This is what Google will look like in Year 2060

Like Javascript, semicolons are optional in Groovy except for when they aren't optional. These examples are both pretty contrived, though I found both because they're actually something that I've written, and could both be written better. That's not really the point I'm making though. When something doesn't compile when it looks like it clearly should sometimes it's hard to track down why, and it's surprising to learn that it's because you need a semicolon.

Thoughts on the amount of Architecture artefacts you might need to create

So I finally got some time to sit down and write, after being knee deep in work the past month or two. And without a doubt, I wanted to write about what has been heckling and annoying me over the past month. I am an ardent defender of Java as a good language, especially defending it from Misko day in and day out, but even I will agree that it does suck at times. So today, Java, the gloves are off. I love you, but this is the way things are

It’s fashionable, or perhaps inevitable, for tech communities to trash their competition. The Emacs folks like to mock vi users; Windows folk look down on us Mac users (and Linux users mock us both); and everyone likes to mock PHP despite PHP’s dominance in the web world. We geeks make arguing over minor technical points into a kind of art. This is all pretty understandable: it’s easy to define community in terms of what we’re not. A common enemy focuses and drives us. Competition can take a positive form: when it’s friendly and constructive both communities benefit.

Some of my random observations and rants about BAD managers and bosses…

Do you dread going to a convention and meeting new people? Do you sit mum in meetings, overpowered by others? Do you gape at the self-promoters in the office who seem to get ahead beyond their worth? If so,

People make plans. But if a plan is to pan out the correct way, you need to be able to execute it right. But how do you implement a plan to achieve everything you had set out to do?