Yay! And the senate has passed the reconciliation bill with very few changes. The house is expected to approve it later this evening. I’ve been taking a few days off celebrating the US entering the realm of civilized nations, at least a bit.
A link to Tristero’s (Richard Einhorn) recent post on Digby’s blog. http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/excellent-description-of-difference.html It’s a good description of the main policy difference between the current Republican and Democratic parties.
I suppose you never forget your first Maven plugin. I’ve created two, and they’re both sync’d to Maven Central. The first takes a description of Java Swing controls with configurations and creates image files of them for use in documentation. The second allows the output of the docbkx plugin, which is the most full-featured of [...]
Apparently I like fiddling with tools if they’re the right tools. I’m trying to get good syntax highlighting for Java and XML in DocBook running through Maven. If I can get Doxia to do it, that’s great. Otherwise I’ll need to move to the DocBkx plugin, which is a lot more capable, but doesn’t integrate [...]
My old college friend Ron Burk had an Ignite video go viral last year. This one probably won’t, but it’s still a good presentation. It’s called “Three Strange Definitions of Computer Programming”. He’s a good presenter, so you might find it interesting even if you’re not into programming. His original Ignite presentation is “The Psychology [...]
