Been in D.C. for a few days, and on Monday we went to hear the Supreme Court. They read two decisions (Crawford v. Washington and Iowa v. Tovar) and admitted members from the JAG corps and the Brooklyn bar to the Court. Only six of the Justices were there (Scalia was hunting perhaps?), and Justice Thomas looked very bored by the 25 minute session.

On the way out we ran across a press conference about detainees being held in Guantanamo Bay. Just another day in capital city.

Thanks JavaBloggers for filling out my software build survey (and more responses would be great)! These results should help me examine relationships in build practices.

I haven’t had the chance to analyize the data much yet, but have been struck by how widely-used CVS seems to be. I’m curious to see how quickly Subversion starts to eat into that segment.

As part of a grad school program I’m hoping to find kind-hearted software developers to fill out a short survey on how their software is built. I’m interested in examing relationships between build practices and various software technologies and characteristics of the software team. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Been reading some about requests to open-source Java from IBM and ESR. The issue seems to be less about who contributes patches and more about how it is released, licensed and promoted. Presumably something could be done to please the Linux community while not terrorifying the business world with the GPL. I’m all for it, if only to decrease the amount of Perl that’s written. Though from Sun’s perspective I don’t see how it wouldn’t make it even more difficult to sell their expensive hardware against Linux/Intel (Lin-Tel?).

I’ve been listening to the Grey Album, a mix of Jay-Z’s “Black Album” and the Beatle’s “White Album” by DJ Danger Mouse. Who would have guessed? It works, and “99 Problems” rocks. This goes on the shelf (or the iPod equivalent) next to sample-rich Paul’s Boutique.