Color me Flickr’d

So, as of Tuesday night, we officially unveiled our GA bits to the public Internet. It was a little anticlimactic, given that our marketing launch was 3 weeks ago. But a 1.0 is a 1.0, no matter how early the party was…
To celebrate, my boss got all us devs “pro” accounts at Flickr (and a [...]

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maven:uninstall

Mission Accomplished
Our build is now Maven-free, and I couldn’t be more pleased. I found that Ant 1.6.2, ant-contrib, and Ivy make for a really good Maven replacement.
I realize it’s been out for over a year, but Ant 1.6 is a huge improvement over previous versions. Macros and imports make life so much easier when writing [...]

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Web Framework Proliferation

Perusing javablogs, I discovered that a friend from college, Rich Unger, has a journal on java.net and recently mused on the proliferation of J2EE frameworks. I decided this was as good an opportunity as any to geek out in my blog, given that I’ve been neglecting it of late.
Despite the fact that he lists things [...]

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Bad Blogger

I’m an awful blogger.
I mean, really bad.
I’ve totally failed this part of my quarterly goals. So it goes.
I really want to get into this. And I receive friendly pressure from friends and coworkers to write more. I don’t think they really want to read what I have to write. I think they just feel bad [...]

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Ballard in springtime

Ballard in springtime

Originally uploaded by shaug.

This month marks 3.5 years living in Ballard for Cheryl and me. July will be 5 years since we moved form St. Louis. This weekend, we visited some friends from church, and at one point they asked if we were [...]

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Duet in black and white

duet in black and white

Originally uploaded by shaug.

John put in a request for this in black and white. Picasa was willing to oblige (though I couldn’t figure out how to make a copy of the image in the same folder without doing so in my [...]

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Duet

duet

Originally uploaded by shaug.

Cheryl took this striking photo of Ani and Ani on the piano. They make quite a pair, if you ask me. This is also a representative photo of Ani of late—she’ll pull herself to standing on anything that will bear her weight. [...]

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