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Java weenie \*Ja”va *wee”nie\, n

1. (Inf.) A wiener that tastes like coffee.

2. (Slang) Indonesian penis.

3. (Slang) An insignificant, disliked, coffee-addicted programmer.

4. (Slang) Honorary title given to community members of The Apache Software Foundation who dare and talk about their love of java at ApacheCon conferences. (see: Sanchez, Wilfredo; Magnusson, Geir; Pony, I Want a; Lightning [...]

While discussing 3,200 line shell scripts and adding logging thereto, I introduced Stephen to the concept of a bus factor, for approximately the eleventy millionth time (my suggestion was to add the log, ideally a nice big one, to roughly the centre of the developer’s head).

We decided that our relationship had a bus factor of [...]

Stephen’s recently been questioned a bit about his email address validation regex – which has a few problems… Notably, it doesn’t allow for addresses like rob@uk, which I’m assured once existed (although I don’t believe it still does).

He wasn’t aware of any TLDs with MX records – so, of course, I had to set out [...]

From Ronan Kirby’s write-up of Skycon, about my lightning talk at the con:

“Also, if anyone has a tape of this talk, there could be money made selling it to an energy drink company for commercial use.”