Monthly Archives: November 2008

I got an e-mail today saying from Michael Kimsal saying “You’re Famous!” and with a link to the GroovyMag Blog with the following video: Man, if I knew that head shot was going to get so much exposure, I’d have gotten it professionally done. Also, someone’s cited me with the likes of Ted Neward, Jeff [...]

Briefly, how do you find the prime factorization for x + y when you have x and y as prime factorizations. I’m looking for something faster than performing the running multiply-adds to get x and y as natural numbers, doing the addition, and then brute factoring the result from scratch. I’ll even take cute tricks [...]

I’m going to be taking Michael Kimsal’s spot at TriJUG on November 17th (a week from Monday as of this writing). Here’s the presentation blurb I sent: This presentation will make the argument that Groovy on Grails is the forerunning web application framework and the no-brainer choice for web development in a Java context. It [...]

I’m looking for a few good quotes. The quotes can be a couple of lines long or just a pithy snippet — just share with me what you have. The topics I’m looking for are as follows: A quote about using the right tool for the job. A quote that gets across the point that [...]

My birthday is coming up (November 26th), so if you’re enjoying my contributions to this blog (Brian’s contributions are listed here) or my open source work (JConch, Autobase), or if you just think I’m a swell guy, now would be a great time to show your appreciation with a little gift. Here are some things [...]