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Be Proud of your Code

The quote below says it all.  Don’t be a code monkey, be a true craftsman.  I image I get the same feeling when I produce a beautiful piece of code as a furniture maker gets when they finish a very high quality piece of furniture.  Don’t sell a chair that might stand up, know it will and know it will survive through all but the worst scenarios!
Hire craftsmen not average developers
Bad Code: The Invisible Threat | Javalobby

One of the first things said by the non-believers of the software craftsmanship movement was that good and clean code is not enough to guarantee the success of a project. And yes, they are absolutely right. There are innumerable reasons which would make a project to fail ranging from business strategy to competitors, project management, cost, time to market, partnerships, technical limitations, integrations, etc.

Innovative or Just Another Sign-in Method?

There was a day when a simple user name and password were all you needed to access your stuff.  That day was a long time ago.  Now we have a plethora of options when it comes to authenticating the person who is sitting at a machine.  Mozilla is working on a new on, I think it’s worth a mention.
InfoQ: Mozilla Proposes to Sign-in Only with the Email Address, No User ID or Password Required

Posted by Abel Avram on Jul 15, 2011 A new authentication system, dubbed BrowserID, from Mozilla promises to solve the basic authentication needs, but its success highly depends on its adoption. Mozilla wants to simplify the authentication process when connecting to websites by using just an email address without the need to enter an ID or a password.
Java

A big gun joins OpenJDK and some interview questions are “clarified.”
SAP joins the OpenJDK | Javalobby

OpenJDK, Oracle’s open-source Java SE implementation released under the GPL license, gained another contributor today as SAP signed the Oracle Contributor Agreement. As most of you know, the OpenJDK aims to release their open-source implementations of the Java SE with related specifications as they are produced by the Java Community Process (JCP), which SAP is already an active participant.
Incorrect Core Java Interview Answers – Java Code Geeks
Math

The geek in me couldn’t let this one pass.  Here is a nice series of articles with lots of explanations and example code on performing boolean operations on bezier paths.
Shape Of: Boolean Operations on Bezier Paths