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The full list is here. It's a pretty prestigious group--and I'm totally floored that I'm there next to some pretty big names. In homage to Ms. Sally Fields, of so many years ago... ''You like me, you really like me''. Having somebody come up to me at a conference and tell me how much they like my blog is second on my list of ''fun ...

Sometimes people ask me why I don't put more ''personal'' details in my blogs--those who know me know that I'm generally pretty outspoken on a number of topics ranging far beyond that of simple technology. While sometimes those opinions do manage to leak their way here, for the most part, I try to avoid the taboo topics ...

A couple of people have asked me over the last few weeks, so it's probably worth saying out loud: No, I don't work for a large company, so yes, I'm available for consulting and research projects. If you've got one of those burning questions like, ''How would our company/project/department/whatever make use of JRuby-and-Rails, and what ...

This is, without a doubt, the most accurate quote ever about the ''fun'' of writing a book: Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill ...

At a software conference not too long ago, I was asked what book I was currently reading that I'd recommend, and I responded, ''Robert Greene's The 33 Strategies of War''. When asked why I'd recommend this, the response was pretty simple: ''Because I believe that there's more parallels to what we do in military history than in ...

At a No Fluff Just Stuff conference not that long ago, Brian Goetz and I were hosting a BOF on ''Java Internals'' (I think it was), and he tossed off a one-liner that just floored me; I forget the exact phrasology, but it went something like: Remember that part about premature optimization being the root of all ...