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Bob Lee's Blog - Java and some occasional baby making

I've noticed that most people start off emails with "Hi Bob,". I suspect they're treating "hi" as a less endearing replacement for "dear" in "Dear Bob,". Technically, "dear" is an adjective describing "Bob" while "hi" stands on its own and is not part of the direct address. I prefer the more correct salutation: "Hi, Bob."

Who is the most grammatically correct social network? Facebook, Plaxo Pulse, and Flickr get this wrong, by my standards, in their automated emails. Twitter gets it right.

Expert GuiceJune 27

Stephan just posted video of a talk I gave at Javapolis back in December: Expert Guice: 50 some odd ways to Guice up your Java

Going to JavaOne? Sign up for Twitter.May 2

If you already twitter, feel free to skip to the next section. If you've never heard of Twitter, read on and keep your finger on the pulse of JavaOne.

With Twitter, you can broadcast short status updates to your followers and receive updates from people who you follow. It's like having one big instant messaging conversation with all of your friends.

You can access Twitter via SMS. During JavaOne, you can easily keep tabs on your fellow attendees as well as let them know what you're up to, all from just about any cell phone (standard text messaging rates apply).

For example, if you follow me, and I text "free beer at Guice BoF!" to Twitter, Twitter will forward the message on to your phone.

Note: In addition to following someone, you must also enable "device updates" for that person in order to receive their updates via text and instant message.

If you don't have unlimited text messaging, you can always access Twitter via the web or one of the zillion 3rd party Twitter applications.

#javaone

The Twitter world utilizes an ad hoc tagging system called hashtags. It's simple. Tag your Java

Statically Typed ForewordMarch 12

Robbie asked me to write a foreword for his upcoming Guice book. Having never written a foreword before, I Googled, "how to write a foreword," which brought me to two helpful posts from Muse Ink: Foreword Thinking and Foreword March.

Here's what I came up with:

I created Guice in the midst of one of the biggest projects of my career. When you have hundreds of engineers touching millions of lines of code, you come to appreciate the benefits of static type checking. Static types aren't just about compiler errors. In fact, I rarely see Java compiler errors nowa

Thanks for the Jolt!March 11

Guice took home the Jolt, a.k.a. the geek Oscar, at an award ceremony hosted by Bob Cringely during SDWest:

The Jolt Awards recognize those products, books, and websites that have "jolted" the industry in the past year. Winners are selected by a panel of judges consisting of industry insiders, columnists, and technology leaders.

I started reading Dr. Dobb's Journal back when I was 12. I regularly bought it off the newsstand at Oxford books in Atlanta and was lucky to understand one article in the entire magazine. I learned much of what I know by reading instead of going to college, so DDJ has been an invaluable resource for me. I remember greatly admiring the Jolt winners each year. I hardly imagined myself among them, especially so soon.

The judges picked three productivity winners and one overall Jolt winner from a pool of six finalists in each category. Guice had some stiff competition; other finalists in the Libraries, Frameworks and Components category included the Eclipse Modeling Project, JasperReports, Qt Jambi, the Spring Framework, and the Zend Fram