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Are you a CF Rock Star?

By barneyb on November 6, 2008

Mentor Graphics (where I work) is looking for a top-notch CF/Flex/Java architect/developer to join our team.  There are five of us at the moment, and we need another one.  This is an on-site position in Wilsonville, OR (just south of Portland), and relocation assistance is available.
The "official" qualifications are pretty typical, and largely waive-able for [...]

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Meme(me)

By barneyb on September 23, 2008

Per Mark:

The Rules:

Take a picture of yourself right now
Don't fix your hair, don't change your clothes, just take the picture
Post that picture with no editing
Post these instructions with the picture

I do this every day, meme or not.  See the stream, or get it as RSS.

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Groovy at PDXRIA

By barneyb on September 4, 2008

Next Thursday (Sept 11) I'll be presenting at the PDX RIA group (formerly CFUG) about Groovy.  Someone (cough…Simeon…cough) hasn't updated the site with the new info, but rest assured that it's happening.  As you might imagine, I'll be talking about my CF Groovy framework, but I'll also be talking about JVM language integration in general, [...]

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Twitterfon, Typing Upside-Down, and IMPlus

By barneyb on September 1, 2008

After more use, I've uninstalled both Twitterific and Twinkle, and switched to Twitterfon. It's simple, fast, works well, and hasn't crashed yet. It touts a focus on the core, not extra features, but I'm not sure what is missing.
I also just found IMPlus, which is a multiprotocol IM client for iPhone. It [...]

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My New Blog

By barneyb on August 21, 2008

I just created another blog for myself.  Why have only one, when I could just as easily have two?  I've always tried to keep things generally technical on here, knowing that most of my readers are here for the technical content.  The new blog is a complete departure.
A few years ago, I started building an [...]

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Cadence Retracts Offer

By barneyb on August 15, 2008

Cadence has retracted it's offer to buy Mentor Graphics.  Good news for the company, and hopefully good news for me too.  The chaos should definitely decrease now that the "threat" has passed, but it'll take some time to get back to normal, I suspect.

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The State of the Barney

By barneyb on August 10, 2008

Time for another "State of the Barney" post. They're usually a January staple, but oh well.
The past few weeks (since the end of June, really) have carried significant unwanted stress because of the takeover bid for Mentor Graphics by our largest competitor. The odds of the deal actually going through are pretty slim, [...]

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CFUNITED Day One

By barneyb on June 19, 2008

As is typically the case, CFUNITED has a pair of themes.  There's the conference theme, which, as always, is helping CF coders become more empowered by learning about new things (OO, using CFCs, learning frameworks, etc.), and then there's the "backtheme".  This year it's all don't use only CF.  Adobe's integrating Hibernate into CF9, Railo [...]

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Speaking at CFDevCon

By barneyb on June 9, 2008

I'm pleased to say that I'll be speaking at CFDevCon this September over in Brighton, England. The conference should be a great one: lots of great speakers, lots of great topics, and what should be a great location. They also announced last Thursday that early bird pricing has been extended to the end [...]

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The Best of the Best

By barneyb on April 17, 2008

Eight and a half years ago, I posted the 26th best mid-season time for the NCAA men's 200 Freestyle.  That was as close as I ever got to being the best of the best.  I figure that's pretty good; roughly the 99.999997th percentile of college-age men.  Three and a half weeks later, I quit competitive [...]

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