that’s whacked

catching up… is so hard to do

Friday, Jun 30. 2006  –  Category: OpenSolaris

sorry for my absence… hopefully your heart has grown fonder…

i’ve been knee-deep in SCM-infrastructure-support for OpenSolaris lately… or as i like to call it: crud. this has been rather unglamorous work involving Tomcat, Apache, webapps, third party Java code, ant, and Python. i don’t mind Apache… and i even like Python. but there’s a reason i never learned Java.

call me a bigot. call me biased. whatever. i just don’t like Java. i know i know…the idea of an engineer working for Sun who doesn’t like Java cracks you up. i’m certain that in some warped reality of physics, the universe should cease to exist now…. i am the anti-matter to Sun’s matter.

i don’t really have a valid reason for it. i can’t back it up with any substantial claim or justification. i just don’t like it.

anyway. now that that’s out of my system…. i am hopeful that we will have Subversion hosting on opensolaris.org RSN. i shan’t quantify it any more than that, since god knows we’ve already hit delay after delay. but oh well. i’ve been told i’m a blindingly naive optimist.

i consider that a compliment

by the by, i will be presenting a high-level overview of OpenSoaris at next week’s SVLUG (Silicon Valley Linux User Group) meeting. i’ve been told this is the LUG that make Linus Torvalds swear never to go another LUG again.

is there truth to that? who knows.

if i can’t win them over with amazing technical demonstrations, or my equally amazing presentation prowess and charisma…. … .. ….well, i can try and win them over with swag.