I apparently missed the news item that James Gosling left Oracle in April. One interesting quote though:
“Just about anything I could say that would be accurate and honest would do more harm than good.”
Really subtle.
And a brilliant picture from his blog:
I did some more restyling on the site. The aim is minimal clutter and minimalistic style. If you have any suggestions to improve the site layout, please let me know!
Yes, after a little bit of hacking with CSS and as usual bumping my head against several little issues that I still don’t understand, I managed to improve the layout of the site. The title is now neatly placed on top of the header image and I changed the background color. It never ceases to amaze me how big the effect of little changes on a page can be.
Now links are more user-friendly (bookmarkable).
For a long time now I have been a bit annoyed by the limitations of joomla and now finally migrated to wordpress. As it turns out, migration is a breeze. I used a tool to migrate Joomla to an older wordpress version 2.6.5, and after that simply upgrading wordpress to the most recent version. The bulk of the work is now in customizing the site a little, starting with look and feel and then adding other functionality.
Here's a quote from 'Myths of Innovation', Scott Berkun, first paragraph of chapter 7.
"What advice would typical executives give Stephen Hawking, one of the brightest living minds, if he worked for them? Would they ask him to write daily status reports? Defend his action items from PowerPoint slides at team debrief meetings? Of similar curiosity is whether Steve Wozniak, Albert Einstein, or Isaac Newton ever filled out time cards, wrote performance reviews, or had their ideas ranked on scorecards by committees of middle managers. Could you imagine Mozart, da Vinci, or Marie Curie sitting next to each other, taking notes, at an all day company wide event/ It's hard to see any of these commonplace situations working outwell for the prospect of innovation."
At devoxx last year, it became quite clear that the industry is moving towards more lightweight approaches for enterprise development.
After attending the Devoxx 2009 conference in Antwerp this year and seeing a number of presentations on JavaFX I got motivated for using it. The main reasons for looking at it would be:
Therefore, I did some digging into the possibilities on the internet.
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