Author: devinhedge

  • Never forgetting

    Never forgetting

    On September 11, 2001 I watched the world change in front of my eyes, just as my father saw the world change when Sputnik went up on October 4, 1957, and his father listened to FDR’s "Day of Infamy" speech on December 8th, 1941. I have an edited version of Jewel’s "Hands" with all the…

  • Wikipedia entry accepted

    Wikipedia entry accepted

    UPDATED 25-May-2016: I noticed that Wikipedia deleted the phrase “Culture of Entitlement”. Recalling that I spent a considerable amount of time taking the political bias out of the entry, I’m frankly unimpressed. So I offer up a CPA Journal article titled, “Changing a culture of entitlement into a culture of merit” I don’t know whether to rejoice or cry…

  • Building an albatross

    Building an albatross

    Seth Godin has made me think again about strategic plans and how to build businesses.

  • SpringSource

    SpringSource

    I love Spring… and the software framework is pretty good, too. Having said that, I find it funny that the SpringSource site uses the CMS Drupal.

  • John Baldoni in Leadership

    John Baldoni in Leadership

    “Leadership is an active, living process. It is rooted in character, forged by experience, and communicated by example.”

  • Managing Humans

    Managing Humans

    Incredible blog about managing humans (real ones). This blog is nice as it is a nice conversation about what it takes to really motivate people to do stuff. It also has a nice design.

  • The value of time

    The value of time

    The older I get the more I value time, mine and others. So while reading Tom’s experience of switching from Windows to Mac OS X via Unbuntu Linux. Tom, like myself, values his time, too. So it’s no surprise to me, while reading that Crossover and Wine mostly wasted a lot of his instead of…

  • Learn Java from the ground up – Java World

    Learn Java from the ground up – Java World

    Java World’s short and not-so-sweet introduction to Java. I recommend coming back to Java World only as a last resort. It wreaks of Vendor bias.

  • Trail: Learning the Java Language (The Java™ Tutorials)

    Trail: Learning the Java Language (The Java™ Tutorials)

    Sun’s online learning site for JAVA

  • Java 101 : Hello World

    Java 101 : Hello World

    Just a quick way to get your feet wet with JAVA programming.