[The Java Posse] Re: No, Joe, Oracle/Google is *NOT* the same as Sun/Microsoft.

2011-02-08 Thread Reinier Zwitserloot
Well, it's legal stuff. There are no definitive answers here. However, trademark law is intended to stop companies from using the name of another company misleadingly, i.e. to protect from these two situations: A. A company naming itself very similar to another company with a better brand to fa

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Google I/O sold out in 60 minutes...

2011-02-08 Thread Robert Casto
Reminds me of concerts getting scooped up by bots on sites like TicketMaster. Any scalpers popped up trying to resell their ticket to IO? On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Reinier Zwitserloot wrote: > Various reports on the interwebs that the signup page was generally not > available - but someti

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Google I/O sold out in 60 minutes...

2011-02-08 Thread Reinier Zwitserloot
Various reports on the interwebs that the signup page was generally not available - but sometimes you got lucky, especially if you reloaded a lot. I wonder how much of this is because so far google has handed out goodies with a street value well above the price for a ticket. Cool, but now is the

[The Java Posse] Three trips to work...

2011-02-08 Thread Vince O'Sullivan
...and I'm still on the same podcast! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For m

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Google I/O sold out in 60 minutes...

2011-02-08 Thread Manfred Moser
well.. I tried for all those 59 minutes and the site never came up.. and after that it did with the message that IO is sold out.. Definitely a #fail manfred -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Google I/O sold out in 60 minutes...

2011-02-08 Thread Ricky Clarkson
Presumably 503 wasn't intentional. 2011/2/8 Cédric Beust ♔ : > > > On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 7:59 AM, Mike Wolfson wrote: >> >> Google dropped the ball on the registration process big time. > > How so? It sold out in 59 minutes, so it seemed to work fine during these 59 > minutes. > -- > Cédric > >

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Google I/O sold out in 60 minutes...

2011-02-08 Thread Cédric Beust ♔
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 7:59 AM, Mike Wolfson wrote: > > Google dropped the ball on the registration process big time. > How so? It sold out in 59 minutes, so it seemed to work fine during these 59 minutes. -- Cédric -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

[The Java Posse] Re: MongoDB and the Amazon EC2

2011-02-08 Thread Brent
almost anything on EC2 isn't reliable, but it's a great service and as long as you build your architecture to account for this then it doesn't matter. On Feb 8, 10:39 am, Romain Pelisse wrote: > Hi Java Posse listeners, > > As the posse are quite enthousiastic about MongoDB, I though this quest

[The Java Posse] Re: Jingle for "Oracle Outrage of the Week" segment

2011-02-08 Thread Chess
I think "Were not going to take it" by Twisted Sister might be appropriate. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javapo

[The Java Posse] Re: Google I/O sold out in 60 minutes...

2011-02-08 Thread Mike Wolfson
I bet spots will open. I would try a few times today, as it appeared like the system was issuing tokens of some sort on the initial screen, and keeping track of those (as opposed to the actual numbers of actual people registered). I bet these will timeout today, and some spots will become availab

[The Java Posse] MongoDB and the Amazon EC2

2011-02-08 Thread Romain Pelisse
Hi Java Posse listeners, As the posse are quite enthousiastic about MongoDB, I though this question could interest you. I heard some bad feedback about deploying MongoDB on Amazone EC2 (mostly from Manik's - JBoss's Infinite Span leader during a talk at Brussels where he referred, I believe, to th

Re: [The Java Posse] Jingle for "Oracle Outrage of the Week" segment

2011-02-08 Thread B Smith-Mannschott
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 15:22, Chris Adamson wrote: > Royalties be damned (you guys aren't sending a check to Styx every > time you play "Mr. Roboto", I'm sure), here are my nominations for a > theme song / jingle for what seems to be an increasingly common > segment wherein Oracle pisses off the J

[The Java Posse] Re: Jingle for "Oracle Outrage of the Week" segment

2011-02-08 Thread Andres Almiray
I have to totally agree with you on this one Christian. This theme sums pretty well what happened at the JCP and the Jdk7/8 proposals On Feb 8, 2:27 am, Christian Catchpole wrote: > No, this is the perfect theme > tune...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0 -- You received this message b

[The Java Posse] Code Templates Fast Code Eclipse Plugin

2011-02-08 Thread gdind2003
Hi All, Can anyone tried the code templates feature? It can be very helpful. Here is a blog on it : http://www.dzone.com/links/building_pojo_in_an_elegant_way.html. Let me know how you like it. Thanks, --Gautam http://fast-code.sourceforge.net/ -- You received this message because you are sub