Pulse
On Management
IT pros are [..] prone to express their opinions [..] proportional to the absurdity of the event. [..] Presuming this is a trait that must be disciplined out of them is a huge management mistake.
On Maven
“Maven is the ugliest, wierdest, most confusing, most under documented, most XML heavy, most frustrating build system out there and is still better than the alternatives.”
On Linux
“..of course Canonical is only a small part of the overall Ubuntu community now.”
On Separation of Concerns
“In enterprise architecture, the most important separation is between business logic and infrastructure.”
On The Evolution of the UI
“Ultimately, people care about productivity, not technology. Something needs to incent them, to move away from their browser. The browser created the web. RIAs will create the next generation of the internet. Now people just need to write them.”
- John
On OSGi as an alternative to JEE
“Right now JEE is kind of like a big box of rocks—you get everything inside whether you need it or not..”
