Back to the book.
<a href= "http://www.raibledesigns.com/page/rd?anchor=professional_jsp_2_0_update">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.
Cameron is doing a great job of <a href= "http://www.freeroller.net/page/cpurdy/20030628">blogging The Server-Side Symposium
Go JDO.
<a href= "http://www.dominicdasilva.com/index.do?date=20030626#180750">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, <a href= "http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/excerpt/chap_07/index1.html">part 1 and <a href= "http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/excerpt/chap_07/index1.html">part 2.
Exit letter.
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?