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Upcoming Speaking Engagements If you're interested in learning about Struts 2 or AppFuse, I'm doing a number of speaking engagements in the next month:

How's that for getting some mileage out of my CSS presentations? ;-)

I don't know who will be doing the Basic Concepts talk at DJUG, but I'm pretty sure Chris Maki will be presenting on JPA at the JBoss User Group meeting.

In addition to these local talks, I'll also be talking at The Spring Experience on What's new in AppFuse 2.0. Since my talk is at 9:30 p.m. on Saturday night, I'm looking into getting some free beer to bribe people into showing up. Posted in Java at Nov 01 2006, 09:56:18 PM MST 4 Comments

JIRA Spam The AppFuse JIRA instance has been getting hammered with spam today. Some jackasses are creating accounts and posting issues (as well as comments) chalk full of links. Any ideas how to stop this - outside of not allowing new users to sign up? Posted in Java at Nov 01 2006, 09:32:56 PM MST 7 Comments

It's getting cold around here New Commuter - Giant FCR3 This week, I started riding my bike to work again. It figures that it just happens to be one of the coldest weeks in quite some time. This morning, when I was riding home, the thermometer read 27°F on the 7News sign. It's really not too bad once you start riding, but it is tough to get going in the morning. It's one of those things - if you dress for it, you're more than comfortable.

I've ridden my bike to work so much in the last year that I had to buy a new chain and rear cassette yesterday. My chain was so stretched that it was skipping, no matter what gear I was in. Of course, after spending a bunch of money getting everything fixed yesterday - I got a flat tire on my way to work this morning. It was the first flat I've gotten since I started working downtown a year and a half ago. I wasn't too far away though - it only took me a 1/2 hour to finish the commute on foot. I fixed the tire with slime this afternoon, so hopefully it'll be another year and a half before my next flat. Posted in General at Nov 01 2006, 09:18:58 PM MST 5 Comments