Software is too expensive to build cheaply...

What can I say? I love the <import> task. :) If the Jolt Awards were accepting nominations at the moment, I'd be nominating that one bit of Ant 1.6 all by itself. :)

In my role, I'm the defacto tools librarian; I'm the guy who sucks down the latest and greatest copies of everything so that other people don't have. Or more accurately, I'm the guy who sticks the files up on the intranet share so that other people can look there first...

There's a fundamental design principle with web-based applications that constantly amazes me people forget. It's a simple one, too.

Web applications are inherently stateless

I thought I'd expand on my previous point. It's a simple one, but they're always the trickiest.

Web apps are by their nature stateless. Stateless applications are a pain in the butt to build, because they are extremely complex (not just complicated). By stateless, what I really mean is that the client state and the server states are disconnected. This is due to the (truly) stateless nature of the HTTP protocol that underlies all web apps.

Update: I had a couple of simple mistakes in my presentation, which are now corrected.

I gave a talk at AJUG-QLD last night, on using XDoclet for code generation. Went down pretty well, I think, though that could be just my flattered ego talking.

Looks like I'm talking about another post of Cedric's. It seems he doesn't like JUnit's test suites, and decided to write a new tool to solve his problem.