Blogging Roller

Here's to Eduardo, Carla and Rich who recently launched The Aquarium, the first Roller-powered group blog that I've seen in the wild. They'll be blogging the growing Glassfish community and, I hope, providing us with some feedback to help us improve the Roller group blogging experience.

Joe Gregorio's latest XML.com article is <a href= "http://www.xml.com/lpt/a/2005/12/07/catching-up-with-the-atom-publishing-protocol.html"> Catching Up with the Atom Publishing Protocol a nice concise summary of the current state of the Atom Publishing Protocol.

Cedric Beust: dynamic languages are not making fast progress in developer mindshare

I wonder when that was published. The evidence from Tim O'Reilly seems to contradict such a claim. Tim says Python book sales are up 20% and Ruby are up 1552%. Quote found via James Robertson.

Twenty-five years ago on this day John Lennon was killed. I still remember hearing the news and, I'm not ashamed to say, thinking about it still brings tears to my eyes. On a much happier note, nine years ago on this day my first son Alexander Broering Johnson was born.