Greeting Grammar
12 Jul 2008 5:28pm GMT I've noticed that most people start off emails with "Hi Bob,". I suspect they're treating "hi" as a less endearing replacement for "dear" in "Dear Bob,". Technically, "dear" is an adjective describing "Bob" while "hi" stands on its own and is not part of the direct address. I prefer the more correct salutation: "Hi, Bob." Who is the most grammatically correct social network? Facebook, Plaxo Pulse, and Flickr get this wrong, by my standards, in their automated emails. Twitter gets it right.
Expert Guice
26 Jun 2008 5:42pm GMT Stephan just posted video of a talk I gave at Javapolis back in December: Expert Guice: 50 some odd ways to Guice up your Java Update: Stephan fixed the audio levels so you should be able to hear me now. :-)
Guice @ Google I/O
28 May 2008 2:23pm GMT Jesse and I are presenting Guice 101 at Google I/O, 11:15 this morning: Guice (pronounced 'juice') is a Jolt award-winnning, lightweight dependency injection framework for Java 5 and above. Put simply, Guice alleviates the need for factories and the use of new in your Java code. Think of Guice's @Inject as the new new. You will still need to write factories in some cases, but your code will not depend directly on them. Your code will be easier to change, unit test and reuse in other...
Teyana Taylor - "Google Me"
4 May 2008 7:07pm GMT
Going to JavaOne? Sign up for Twitter.
2 May 2008 12:42am GMT If you already twitter, feel free to skip to the next section. If you've never heard of Twitter, read on and keep your finger on the pulse of JavaOne. With Twitter, you can broadcast short status updates to your followers and receive updates from people who you follow. It's like having one big instant messaging conversation with all of your friends. You can access Twitter via SMS. During JavaOne, you can easily keep tabs on your fellow attendees as well as let them know what you're up to,...