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karstensrage |
whats the motivation behind VirtualJUG |
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karstensrage |
why is sjmaple so into it? |
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karstensrage |
and the others of course |
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pdurbin |
karstensrage: the Boston JUG meets far enough away from Boston that I'm not motivated to ride my bike to events. |
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karstensrage |
i like it a lot, just seems like a lot of work |
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karstensrage |
so kudos to them |
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karstensrage |
you ride? |
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karstensrage |
i like riding too |
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pdurbin |
yeah, I bike to work |
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karstensrage |
i used to |
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pdurbin |
karstensrage: what kind of Java stuff are you working on? |
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karstensrage |
i do almost everything in Java, im writing a blog post on why my resume looks like devops, but right now im trying to codify some decision logic in a blocking app, sort of like fail2ban for an application |
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karstensrage |
my reasons for loving java are twofold, 1) everything has already been solved, multiple times |
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karstensrage |
and 2) since Sun maintained control for so long, everything seems very well thought out and cohesive, so its not a huge learning curve thats 2x for domains that are unfamiliar, for instance if you dont know jack about Rule engines, you have to learn both how rule engines work and how the implementation works (Drools)... but with Java, i find that that 2nd part is not as onerous as other language where everything is a DSL for from th |
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karstensrage |
e mind of some cowboy that figured it would be better to re-write than use something that solved 96.7% of their problem |
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karstensrage |
if that makes any sense |
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pdurbin |
yeah, it's a mature platform and ecosystem |
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karstensrage |
what are you working on pdurbin |
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pdurbin |
https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse |
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karstensrage |
whoa is github down? |
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karstensrage |
carekit |
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pdurbin |
karstensrage: the Boston meetings do sound pretty interesting though: http://www.nejug.org/events/show/183 |
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karstensrage |
definitely looking forward to tomorrow |
