In case you’re interested, I recorded a podcast about Terracotta for JavaWorld a while back and it’s now online.
Serendipitously, Terracotta 3.0.0 was just released! Get it while it’s hot.

Lots of great music this year but I’ll try to hit some of my personal highlights.

Concert – I saw several very good concerts this year. I’d say for me this was a tie between seeing Sharon Jones at Blueberry Hill and seeing Ani DiFranco at the Pageant. Sharon because she was amazing and [...]

I’ve been taking a lot of walks lately and listening to podcasts, and I’ve become kind of addicted to podcasts oriented around story-telling. Perhaps the best is This American Life with Ira Glass. This NPR series every week takes a theme and tells a series of stories around it. They do an [...]

I was just listening to the first podcast for the still forming stackoverflow site. It’s a joint venture between Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror and Joel Spolsky of Joel on Software.
It’s a little long and rambling but kind of interesting. Guys, an hour is too long! 30-40 minutes is a [...]

The other night while I was out walking I listened to Ted Neward’s keynote from Jazoon ‘07, The future will be about programming languages (slides/video, mp3).
In general, I thought it was great and well worth a listen. It hits a number of topics I find particularly interesting, like language design, DSLs, and [...]

I listened to the Drunk and Retired’s Java 7 wishlist podcast this morning and had a few comments. If you haven’t listened to the podcast, then some of this may make no sense… :)

Properties – I think something around properties would be cool, but I haven’t seen a properties proposal that I’m [...]

Lately I’ve been listening to lectures from Prof. Erik Demaine and Prof. Charles Leiserson from their MIT Introduction to Algorithms course while I’m out taking a walk at night. These lectures are available as part of MIT’s OpenCourseWare project, which is opening content to ultimately all of MIT’s courses I think.
I know [...]

I am quite humorously mentioned on this week’s Drunk and Retired podcast (fair warning: it’s a bit explicit and off-color). Last week they talked for a while about ANTLR and I sent Coté an email with some info on the use of lookahead for disambiguation. On the podcast they couldn’t remember my domain [...]

I just read a post on Kyles Cordes’ blog about filtering and managing the information deluge.
I’ve been doing a similar purge lately, also due to a change in usage. Recently I started using Yahoo messenger for work and I now get an icon alert every time I get Yahoo mail. This is actually [...]

I’d recommend this pretty good podcast of a talk by Ruby creator Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto. It talks about the origins and design principles of Ruby, but is also pretty interesting in that he makes the analogy between how different natural languages shape your thinking (the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis) versus how different programming languages shape your [...]

For about the last week I have been downloading stuff from IT Conversations and listening to it on the drive to and from work. So far, I‘m really enjoying it – the commute has actually become enjoyable (and useful)!
I started by listening to Steve Wozniak‘s two-part talk from Gnomedex, which was the top-rated on the [...]