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Saturday Jun 28, 2003

Back to the book.

Comments[0] by Dave in Java

Like Matt, I'm working on Professional JSP 2.0 again. The new publisher wants to change things around and I'm fine with that. He has a lot of good ideas about both of my chapters, but the changes are going to keep me busy over the next couple of weeks. On a side note, I'm finding that using a private wiki to organize my thoughts for this book, my weblog entries, and other activities (comparison shopping for example) works really well.

Blogging TSS.

Comments[0] by Dave in Java

Cameron is doing a great job of blogging The Server-Side Symposium

Go JDO.

Comments[0] by Dave in Java

Dominic Da Silva notes that JBoss has decided to go with JDO for POJO persistence. There is also a nice pair of articles on JDO at the O'Reilly site: JDO Persistence, part 1 and part 2.

Exit letter.

Comments[0] by Dave in General

Normally I do, but this time I didn't leave quietly. This time I thought carefully about the problems that caused me to resign and wrote an exit letter explaining these problems and my suggestions for addressing them. I tried not to rant, but when I write about things that frustrate it's hard not to get frustrated. I asked a couple of developer friends and my wife to review the letter, but I still think it was a little harsh. If the harsh talk gets the letter noticed, and the suggestions make a difference, that'll be great. Am I deluding myself? Do exit letters ever make a difference?

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