1K

So this is the 1,000th entry in my blog since I began on December 20, 2003. I thought I’d use this opportunity to revisit some of my favourite entries and the discussions that followed. All of these entries are tagged “1K”. The criteria are purely personal. We have always been at war with Eastasia…. I…

According to the WordPress dashboard, this blog entry will be the 998th that I have made. So what should I do for entry #1,000? Chris (who just arrived from California for a weekend visit) suggests that I pick out my favourite postings from the last couple of years. Any other suggestions?

I spent today at Sun, tidying up loose ends. I returned my library book 😉 , packed up my books, and shifted large quantities of paper to the Secure recycling box. (I’d kept a paper copy of ever performance review I’d received or written for the last 10+ years, along with tons of specs, proposals,…

I’ve received so many emails and blog comments about my departure from Sun that I decided to put together a little FAQ on the subject. Obviously these are my opinions; I don’t speak for Sun 🙂 Q. Why the RIF?A. That’s easy: Sun wasn’t achieving the profitability that was expected. The Q2FY06 numbers were significantly…

I’m overwhelmed at all the kind comments from people about my RIF. I’m not the only one: there are lots of really good, smart people leaving Sun in this process, and the company will be the poorer for their departure. Look for them on LinkedIn, please. As I mentioned, I was due to host the…

Well, after 20.63 years at Sun, I have been caught up in today’s RIF (Reduction In Force). As of 5pm today, I’m out of here.* So far the most common reaction is “You’re kidding!!!” Sadly, no. However between now and then I’m hosting the regular Thursday afternoon SunLabs tea, so I’d better get on with…

If you know me, you’ll know that I’m a sucker for cool new technology. (However I do have some blind spots: I still haven’t got a TiVo. Perhaps I really do believe in network services, in which case TiVo is a short-term fad and a technological dead-end. We’ll see. More prosaically, I donb’t watch much…

Suppose that you’re driving down a four lane, non-divided suburban street in the USA, with a sidewalk on each side. In decreasing order of frequency, you’d expect to encounter:– cars– trucks– buses– pedestrians– motorcycles– bicycles In India, the corresponding list would be something like:– bicycles– pedestrians (with or without pushcarts)– motor scooters– motorcycles (with up…

This is going to be long – skip it if you’re in a hurry. Today I was at Sun’s Santa Clara campus for an all day meeting of the DEs. We finished up on time, just after 5pm. The last session had left me feeling exhausted: a 20 minute presentation stretched to a relentless 40…

In Craig McMurty’s blog entry that stirred up discussion of Indigo and Jini, he mentions a piece by Don Box, in which “the four fundamental tenets” of service-oriented development are laid down. Craig further asserted that ‘The “services” that one can construct with Jini do not conform to any of those four tenets’. Really? Well,…