Reading Convergent Architecture, yes I should have read it months/years ago but that is a different story... Great quote from pg 6 - What large IT organizations need is less philosophical discussion regarding absolute truth and more agreement on Architectural Style. Boy isn't that the truth... At my last gig we saw lots of pontification about absolute truth...

Just finished my review of the new edition. Its very good stuff. Can't wait to hear more about M-A.

JK2 is still not working after spending 2+ hrs trying to compile it from scratch it still doen't work. Argh!!! So anyway the support team at my provider is going to make it work. As many problems as I've had the support is always willing to work hard to resolve it. That isa good thing.

Well I finally had time to get JK2 working with Apache and some how it has been deleted from my machine. Now I have to build it from scratch? Argh!

Well having finished my final draft of the final chapter for the JSF book put me in a great mood. All that was left was the slides for the Colorado Software Summit. I have finally finished them as well (last Friday, right on time :-) and now I'm relaxing. Had a great motorcyle ride in the rain yesterday with Andrew and Isaac and went on a great hike/drive with the whole family. We went up to an old ghost town about 15 minutes from our house. The old town is called Preston and there is not really much left of it but it was still cool to walk around it.

Well looks like the blog is finally working.

Problem: Provider had a faulty RedHat 7.3 install and the JVM was crashing. They moved me to another machine and things look great now.