Clowns In My Coffee » vendorprisey http://clownsinmycoffee.net Inanity of the most cogent sort you can find. Tue, 11 May 2010 23:16:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 On Nostalgia http://clownsinmycoffee.net/2010/02/06/on-nostalgia/ http://clownsinmycoffee.net/2010/02/06/on-nostalgia/#comments Sat, 06 Feb 2010 03:11:22 +0000 adam http://clownsinmycoffee.net/?p=78 Continue reading →]]> There’s a whiff of wistfulness out there on the ‘tubes for the passing of Sun Microsystems, and I’ve got to admit I’ve participated a bit in that; the absorption by Oracle of Sun’s assets certainly marks some kind of transition in the industry that helps me pay my bills, call it ‘maturity’ or ‘loss of innocence’, or “oh no, we’re all doomed!”

On the other hand, I was clearing out some gunk in my attic this evening, and I came across a pretty hefty printout that details how to write a very simple custom component for Java Server Faces 1.0; it clocks in at around 15 pages or so. And then, you know, maybe I’m not so surprised at what happened to Sun.

And then it hits me that what’s swallowing Sun is Oracle. And then I’m surprised again.

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