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Core Groovy
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  • Graeme Rocher

    Project Lead of the Grails Project & CTO of G2One

    As I write this JavaOne 08 is being wrapped up and I am horizontal in bed. I somehow managed to get pleurisy and pneumonia a few days before... more»

  • Alex Miller

    Sr. Engineer with Terracotta Inc.

    This talk was by Gil Tene and Michael Wolf from Azul. Azul has their own concurrent garbage collector although this talk focused mostly on... more»

  • Vladimir Vivien

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    The last day of JavaOne 2008 was heralded by the final General Session where Sun showcased several cool projects. Here are a few you maybe... more»

  • Michael Nygard

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  • Mike Levin

    Software Developer specializing in Web2.0 websites

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  • Howard Lewis Ship

    Creator of Tapestry and HiveMind

    I spent some time yesterday revamping the Tapestry 5 Tutorial; you can see the updates at the more»

  • Pramod Sadalage

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  • Kirk Knoernschild

    Software Developer & Mentor

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  • Guillaume LaForge

    Groovy Spec Lead & Project Manager

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  • Venkat Subramaniam

    Founder of Agile Developer, Inc.

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  • Jeff Brown

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  • Craig Walls

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  • Neal Ford

    Application Architect at ThoughtWorks, Inc.

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  • Andrew Glover

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    On more than one occasion, I’ve been asked by various hip developers if there was a conversion script for transforming existing Ant... more»

  • Jason Rudolph

    Author of Getting Started with Grails

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  • David Bock

    Principal Consultant, CodeSherpas Inc.

    Installing CentOS 5, ImageMagick, and RMagick I don‘t normally blog about obscure, specific technical topics, mainly because 99% of more»

  • Scott Leberknight

    Chief Architect at Near Infinity

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    Brian Pontarelli - founder of Inversoft

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  • Erik Doernenburg

    Principal Consultant @ Thoughtworks

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  • Pratik Patel

    Software Architect

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  • Pete Behrens

    Organizational Agility Coach

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  • Nathaniel Schutta

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  • Joseph Nusairat

    Author of Beginning JBoss Seam & Co-Author of Beginning Groovy & Grails

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  • Richard Monson-Haefel

    VP of Developer Relations, Curl Inc.

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  • Brian Sam-Bodden

    Java author, Ruby geek and Open Source Advocate

    In this installment we are going to build the Dashboard page of the Tempo application. T more»

  • Mark Fisher

    Spring Integration Lead

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  • Ron Bodkin

    Chief Software Architect, Quantcast

    I'm looking forward to speaking at The Rich Web Experience conference in San Jose next month. The event runs from September 7th through 9th.... more»

  • Mark Goodwin

    Web Application Security Specialist

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  • Brian Goetz

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  • Romain Guy

    Java User Interface expert.

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  • Ramnivas Laddad

    Author of AspectJ in Action, Principal at Interface21

    InfoQ.com has published my AOP myths and realities talk recorded at a No Fluff Just Stuff conference. InfoQ.com founded by Floyd Marine more»

  • David Geary

    Author of Graphic Java Swing and Co-author of Core JSF

    The 2006 NFJS tour kicked off t more»

  • Jason Hunter

    Author of Java Servlet Programming

    I just posted the JDOM 1.1 release for download. This release includes about 20 improvements and bug fixes. more»

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    CEO of Relevance

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A Modest Proposal

Posted by: Douglas Crockford on 03/27/2008

Yesterday, presidential candidate John McCain said "We have incurred a moral responsibility in Iraq. It would be an unconscionable act of betrayal, a stain on our character as a great nation, if we were to walk away from the Iraqi people." We don't want to abandon the Iraqi people to the violence and confusion that we unleashed, but ordering the deaths of more American soldiers in Iraq will not bring about peace. A military solution is not possible. So in desperation, to end the loss of life on all sides, I would offer the following deal.

If the factions will agree to stop killing each other, we will immediately withdraw all troops and deliver former President George Bush and former Vice President Dick Cheney to the Iraqi High Court to stand trial for war crimes.


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About Douglas Crockford

Crock is a product of our public school system. A registered voter, he owns his own car. He has developed office automation systems. He did research in games and music at Atari. He was Director of Technology at Lucasfilm. He was Director of New Media at Paramount. He was the founder and CEO of Electric Communities/Communities.com. He was founder and CTO of State Software, where he discovered JSON. He is now an architect at Yahoo!.

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