<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Java @ blog.glen-martin.com</title><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/</link><description>(Java) </description><copyright>Copyright 2008 blog.glen-martin.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 23:19:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>Java @ blog.glen-martin.com</title><url>http://server1.blog-city.com/images/bc_v5_logo_small.gif</url><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>Free Beer - the Testing</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.glen-martin.com/testfest_june2005.htm</guid><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/testfest_june2005.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2005 17:09:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://blog.glen-martin.com/console/comments/popup/?f=testfest%5Fjune2005</comments><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Testing while under the influence? Check it out at SpikeSource's next open house, June 17.]]></description><category>testing</category><category>open</category><category>spikesource</category><category>house</category><category>testfest</category></item><item><title>Development as passion, not obligation</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.glen-martin.com/development_as_passion_not_obligation.htm</guid><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/development_as_passion_not_obligation.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2005 19:21:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://blog.glen-martin.com/console/comments/popup/?f=development%5Fas%5Fpassion%5Fnot%5Fobligation</comments><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Quote: Open source as a business model is inheretly flawed and cannot support the development of truly innovative software.Larry McVoy went on to say &quot;It costs a huge amount of money to develop a single innovative software product. You have to h]]></description><category>open</category><category>development</category><category>innovation</category><category>cost</category><category>source</category></item><item><title>Oracle&apos;s developer competition (or: stupid marketing tricks)</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.glen-martin.com/oracles_developer_competition_or_stupid_marketing_tricks.htm</guid><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/oracles_developer_competition_or_stupid_marketing_tricks.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 14 May 2005 20:58:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://blog.glen-martin.com/console/comments/popup/?f=oracles%5Fdeveloper%5Fcompetition%5For%5Fstupid%5Fmarketing%5Ftricks</comments><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I want to thank Oracle for the freeze-dried ice cream, but regretfully decline to enter their developer program contest.It seems Oracle wants to shrink its developer program. To this end, they're going  to choose from the most valuable participants]]></description></item><item><title>Free beer doesn&apos;t hurt</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.glen-martin.com/free_beer_doesnt_hurt.htm</guid><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/free_beer_doesnt_hurt.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2005 13:01:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://blog.glen-martin.com/console/comments/popup/?f=free%5Fbeer%5Fdoesnt%5Fhurt</comments><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I agree that open source is free as in freedom, not free beer. But free beer is good too, so SpikeSource is having an open house this Friday March 18 at 4pm in our Redwood City office.If you've ever wondered what we're about, this is a great opportun]]></description></item><item><title>Risk and Open Source adoption</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.glen-martin.com/risk_and_open_source_adoption.htm</guid><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/risk_and_open_source_adoption.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2005 13:05:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://blog.glen-martin.com/console/comments/popup/?f=risk%5Fand%5Fopen%5Fsource%5Fadoption</comments><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The popular notion that early adopters are risk tolerant is wrong.Nothing like a definitive statement to start an post, eh? Anyway, let me explain what I mean.First, an analogy. Suppose you need $20000 for a life saving operation. Ok, maybe not in t]]></description></item><item><title>The case for stack installers</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.glen-martin.com/the_case_for_stack_installers.htm</guid><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/the_case_for_stack_installers.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2005 12:51:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://blog.glen-martin.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fcase%5Ffor%5Fstack%5Finstallers</comments><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Brian writes of stack installers (as opposed to component installers):  If I were a business and not a developer that would make a lot of sense.It seems to me that this makes just as much sense for software developers, especially those with limited t]]></description></item><item><title>Patenting global web-commerce?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.glen-martin.com/patenting_global_webcommerce.htm</guid><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/patenting_global_webcommerce.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2004 23:17:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://blog.glen-martin.com/console/comments/popup/?f=patenting%5Fglobal%5Fwebcommerce</comments><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I can understand a temptation to sue Dell (even a small possibility of winning or settling yields a better return than the lottery or playing the tables), but a patent on web-based international e-commerce?I've ranted and railed about software patent]]></description></item><item><title>Criminalize acts, not means</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.glen-martin.com/criminalize_acts_not_means.htm</guid><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/criminalize_acts_not_means.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2004 18:56:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://blog.glen-martin.com/console/comments/popup/?f=criminalize%5Facts%5Fnot%5Fmeans</comments><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I number of years ago I saw a bumper sticker that read &quot;Register Mongols, not crossbows&quot;. The point being, if crossbows are illegal, only the Mongols will have crossbows.Fast forward.Today I read that the U.S. Justice Department seems to be]]></description></item><item><title>Social cost of spam</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.glen-martin.com/social_cost_of_spam.htm</guid><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/social_cost_of_spam.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2004 18:45:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://blog.glen-martin.com/console/comments/popup/?f=social%5Fcost%5Fof%5Fspam</comments><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Everyone complains about the direct costs of spam, like bandwidth, storage, lost time, etc.  Well, except the spammers themselves.I haven't seen much on the social cost.I believe it was a character in a Henlein book that complained &quot;I wonder ho]]></description></item><item><title>Codepages be damned</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.glen-martin.com/codepages_be_damned.htm</guid><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/codepages_be_damned.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2004 14:23:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://blog.glen-martin.com/console/comments/popup/?f=codepages%5Fbe%5Fdamned</comments><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Re. yesterday's blog,  ok, so this is worse than I thought. Or perhaps better, depending on the way you look at it.I broke down and booted into Windoze to try to figure out what codepage to use on the mount command, and lo and behold, regedit claims]]></description></item><item><title>Users&apos; shoes</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.glen-martin.com/users_shoes.htm</guid><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/users_shoes.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2004 20:17:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://blog.glen-martin.com/console/comments/popup/?f=users%5Fshoes</comments><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[No fewer than three times over the past two days I've run into something utterly boneheaded from a usability standpoint.Don't get me wrong, I largely agree with the decisions these developers had taken that led me my frustrations, but in each case th]]></description></item><item><title>Everyone is a manager</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.glen-martin.com/everyone_is_a_manager.htm</guid><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/everyone_is_a_manager.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2004 17:31:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://blog.glen-martin.com/console/comments/popup/?f=everyone%5Fis%5Fa%5Fmanager</comments><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[There's a joke that everyone in customer service at a bank is a VP.Dan Steinberg wrote of trends to decreasing # IT workers and increasing proportion of managers.One potential factor that I haven't heard anyone discuss is a change in focus from big p]]></description></item><item><title>Turning things off</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.glen-martin.com/turning_things_off.htm</guid><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/turning_things_off.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2004 07:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://blog.glen-martin.com/console/comments/popup/?f=turning%5Fthings%5Foff</comments><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Weigi wrote in a thread at TSS:&quot;J2EE is too complicated&quot; won't be an excuse to not use J2EE any more because of the modular nature of JBoss's class app servers. Don't like Entity Beans? Simply delete the whole module from the app server!(no]]></description></item><item><title>Programming in the box</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.glen-martin.com/programming_in_the_box.htm</guid><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/programming_in_the_box.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2004 16:37:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://blog.glen-martin.com/console/comments/popup/?f=programming%5Fin%5Fthe%5Fbox</comments><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Ok, my blog about turning parts of a system (EJB in this case) on and off is nagging at me. A lot of us like to tinker. And we like to express that tinkering in the form of writing efficient systems.  Myself, when I was going through a CS degree, use]]></description></item><item><title>Leaving Sun</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.glen-martin.com/leaving_sun.htm</guid><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/leaving_sun.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2004 21:45:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://blog.glen-martin.com/console/comments/popup/?f=leaving%5Fsun</comments><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I've been hesitating to blog on this, but I've have enough queries now that I suppose just to retain my sanity I should just come out and say I've left Sun.I joined Sun 4 years ago to be product manager for J2EE, which role I had for, oh, about one d]]></description></item><item><title>I&apos;ll be at JavaOne yet again</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.glen-martin.com/ill_be_at_javaone_yet_again.htm</guid><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/ill_be_at_javaone_yet_again.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2004 23:05:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://blog.glen-martin.com/console/comments/popup/?f=ill%5Fbe%5Fat%5Fjavaone%5Fyet%5Fagain</comments><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I'll be at JavaOne yet again this year, Sunday mid-day through Wednesday at least, likely through part of Thursday. I'm looking forward to hanging out with a whole bunch of friends, old and new.  I'll watch for email from those as may want to meet,]]></description></item><item><title>Microsoft Antivirus product?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.glen-martin.com/microsoft_antivirus_product.htm</guid><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/microsoft_antivirus_product.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2004 19:13:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://blog.glen-martin.com/console/comments/popup/?f=microsoft%5Fantivirus%5Fproduct</comments><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I read this morning that Microsoft is going to sell an Antivirus product. The first thing it does is de-install Windows. (buh-duh pah!) But seriously, I'm certainly not the first to note that this is just a bit like MS charging to fix critical bugs i]]></description></item><item><title>So much for kinder and gentler</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.glen-martin.com/so_much_for_kinder_and_gentler.htm</guid><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/so_much_for_kinder_and_gentler.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2004 18:17:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://blog.glen-martin.com/console/comments/popup/?f=so%5Fmuch%5Ffor%5Fkinder%5Fand%5Fgentler</comments><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[MS says of their renewed foray into Search, Microsoft efforts are so sweeping that painting its strategy as a simple matchup with Google is a &quot;narrow, narrow way of looking at it.&quot;This is classic MS. Not competitive, &quot;But just wait, it]]></description></item><item><title>Outsourcing and responsibility</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.glen-martin.com/outsourcing_and_responsibility.htm</guid><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/outsourcing_and_responsibility.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2004 15:35:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://blog.glen-martin.com/console/comments/popup/?f=outsourcing%5Fand%5Fresponsibility</comments><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Hewlett-Packard is settling a claim with the government of Canada. But what I find interesting about this is their comments that their own employees aren't responsible, but instead that one of their subcontractors hatched a scheme to defraud both par]]></description></item><item><title>Language goals</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.glen-martin.com/language_goals.htm</guid><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/language_goals.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2004 13:16:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://blog.glen-martin.com/console/comments/popup/?f=language%5Fgoals</comments><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[What are language features for?magpiebrain (love the name!) blogged: Each language feature introduced that tries to enforce safety of some kind invariably introduces some reduction in the power of the language. Some of these tradeoffs’ seem accepta]]></description></item></channel></rss>