Blogging Roller

Tim Bray: Java still remains by far the largest development ecosystem, and the selection and quality of libraries put pretty well any other language’s to shame, and it’s really fucking fast, and has superb tooling, and we know how to run it securely, and it’s Open-Source. So, if you want to move the state of the art along, a smart idea would be to work with, not against, Java.

Finally, something I can agree with on the topic.

This morning I woke up a little earlier than usual so that I could run, shower and look presentable by 8:40AM because today's the big day that Leo goes off to kindergarden. It's a bittersweet milestone both because Leo's our youngest and because I've seen so much of him for the past three years. Ever since I joined Sun and started working at home three years ago, he's been only a couple of rooms away. All day every day. I'm going to miss that. I'm going to miss taking little breaks and eating lunch with him and shooing him out of my office when I forget to lock the door. I would go on, but I'll get all teary eyed and I'm the strong one who doesn't do that. That's why I was the one who got to walk him to school today, check him in and sit him down at his little desk.