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So, all of you regular readers :P have probably been wondering what I've been doing with my time, since it obviously hasn't been devoted to writing blog entries. Well, I have been working at Zend (the PHP company) managing the Zend Framework project. It great! Somebody actually pays me to work on an open source project all day, and a good one at that!

Nowadays I'm programming almost exclusively in Ruby. It's generally been a spectacular improvement over Java server-side coding, but sometimes I find myself unable too remember keyword names in Ruby. So I put this small list together for my own reference.

As usual, I've been too busy to keep up with my strict regimen of one blog post per month. I'll just summarize the past month quickly and move on to some more technology ramblings. . .

I've been pretty busy since we last spoke. First off, as the following badge indicates, I'm now a proud member of PAWS:

Looking over the website just now I realized I haven't posted anything for more than a month.
For shame.

And an update to the ATHF crisis: the two men charged in this fiasco have held a news conference. You simply MUST read about it. Props to these two for giving this situation exactly the gravity that it deserves. Bonus props for architecting the funniest news event I've ever seen covered.
Can anybody verify that the devices were actually Lite Brites? That would just make it that much more ridiculous.

I have to admit it. I read CNN daily. I can tell you that it's because I like to gauge public sentiment or that I'm fascinated by mainstream media phenomena, but I'd be lying. The fact is, I usually find it comic as hell, and occasionally tragic to the point of day-long depression. I'm in it for the drama of non-news. And if I'm not mistaken, so is the rest of its readership.

After some software wrangling, mail list diving, and good old-fashioned googling, I now have a more-or-less functional QmailToaster installation on my Fedora Core 4 server. I'll tell you about the problems I had and how I solved them, then make a half-assed attempt to generalize the experience in to a statement about Linux and FLOSS in general. Let me first warn you, however, that I'm no hard-core sysadmin or technology obscurist.

I finally got around to opening my copy of Core J2EE Patterns: Best Practices and Design Strategies, published by Prentice Hall and Sun Microsystems Press. While I'm only about 5 chapters in to it, I can already tell you this is absolutely essential reading for any Java/J2EE technologist. Why?

Wow! Technorati claims it's tracking 62 million blogs now. Well, here's the 62,000,001st: Technorati Profile