Author Archives: Doug Porter

OK, so less than 30 minutes into the morning of JavaOne and I am sorely not impressed with the organizational planning. Keynote begins at 8:30am, around 5,000 people will be attending, there is a drizzling rain outside, so what did … Continue reading →

Spent my first full day in San Francisco and boy are my legs tired. Quite a bit more geography here than where I’m from (plus you can’t really walk to get anywhere in Mobile, AL. Cars are definitely required). Went … Continue reading →

As I mentioned previously, I have been looking for an open source BizTalk like product and one of the solutions I wanted to evaluate was the Business Integration Engine from the Brunswick Corporation. I finally got around to downloading and … Continue reading →

I had the opportunity last night to be a tester for my friend Julie’s CIS Master’s degree thesis project at the University of South Alabama. It is a voice driven IDE based on Eclipse and using IBM’s Via Voice software. … Continue reading →

Today I’m heading up to Birmingham, AL to hang out with my friend Rob in his last weekend as a resident of the great state of Alabama. He has accepted a job with Intel and will be trekking out to … Continue reading →