I did a quick talk on CruiseControl at tonights Vancouver Island Java Users Group meeting.
The S5 presentation is available here. It was put together at the last minute so consider it a brief introduction.
Only in Victoria I say.
It’s not often that I find out something that’s happening locally from a site like Slashdot. But this article is saying that we’re getting urinals that rise automagically from the ground. Supposed to curb our rampant practice of peeing in public and for a mere pittance of $75,000. What barbarians we are!
I must admit that I don’t read a lot of books, and even less books when those books are not overly technical in nature (I read > 100 feeds daily and tend to read most technical literature online).
My girlfriend on the other hand reads quite a bit and given that we were going to Mexico for a week, I decided to pickup something to read on the 5hr plane ride. I had to buy sun glasses so while I was in the mall I walked into a Coles bookstore and picked up Freakonomics.
I didn’t know what to expect but for some strange reason I’d heard good things of the book before. Nevertheless, it’s a book lacking a real theme (not that I cared one bit) but containing pertinent questions and well articulated answers. If you’re interested in the books material, checkout the authors’ blog. I won’t reveal any details, but it was definitely a quick read and I read it cover to cover in 3 sittings.
Next on the reading list is Brian Goetz’s Java Concurrency in Practice. I picked it up at this years No Fluff Just Stuff but only managed to get 75 or so pages into it on the plane ride back from Puerto Vallarta. Definitely a slower and more technical read but it’ll prove it’s usefulness. Brian’s concurrency talks are excellent and the book is doing a good job at filling in the gaps and covering concepts in more detail than 90 minute lectures provide.