Why wait for XDoclet2?
Merrick Schincarol provides code to add Velocity template support to XDoclet 1.2.
Netiquette is the key to distributed development.
Ken Coar writes about the social dynamics of mailing-lists in distributed software development: The Sun Never Sets on Distributed Development. Good stuff, most or all of it based on Ken's experience with Apache, I assume. Ken explains that Mailing-lists provide a meeting place for teams and the place is very different from a physical meeting place and face-to-face meetings. Each of these places has strong pros and cons. I'm interested to see how weblogs and wikis play out in the Apache community as Ted Leung, Andy Oliver, and others continue the weblog/wiki advocacy and cool stuff like Apache wikis, Apache blogs, and Planet Apache.
Evil trash.
I just returned from Chapel Hill where I worked for about three hours to rid my brother's computer of all of the various adware, spyware, evil crap, worthless trash, and malicious idiocy that had accumulated over the first six months of his Windows-based computer's life. Three hours! If not for the Heavy Metal Parking Lot and Triumph the Insult Comic Dog videos we enjoyed, I would be ready to rant and rage right now. Evil trash indeed.