While looking for a picture of Martin Fowler for this piece of e-garbage, I realized that Google Image Search failed to give me a single good picture of Mister ThoughtWorks. Most were not available except for the thumbnail displayed by Google's search results listing and the one picture that was available in full size was so poor quality that it took me approximately 20ms (probably a bit less but my clock threshold is 10ms) to decide that it's not good enough.

So, I decide to take my chances with random surfing. martinfowler.com was down so I went for the Poppendiecks' site and clicked on "Photos" (Tom goes around the world after software conferences, documenting everything with his camera). Since I knew Martin had given the final keynote at XP2004, I decided to take a look at Tom's XP2004 photos.

Guess who's the bald guy with a beard in the photographs below...

Heh. I just realized that these two guys are probably related.

Martin Fowler Thought Leader

Bruce Schneier Security Expert

As if the world wouldn't have enough to adapt to with print.google.com, froogle, and what not, Google has come out with Google SMS, a short-messaging service for those living in the US.

Oh, and guess what... The short number spells G-O-O-G-L.

I have the habit of opening up pages I intend to check out with "Open Link in New Tab" in FireFox. As a result, I constantly manage to overflow and end up doing a brain dump like this blog entry. A bit like... Darn. Apparently one side-effect of this is that every now and then I remember an earlier blog entry by someone on my 130+ member blogroll -- on a tab I already closed -- but can't remember anymore who it was that blogged about such a thing. In this case, that someone was talking about how he recently went into the vicious cycle of The Laundry Pile and couldn't get out until he took the whole pile to a laundry service. If you feel like going through my blogroll on the right-hand side, looking for that particular blog entry, and if you find it, please let me know. Oh, and I'm not 100% sure if it was actually someone on my blogroll or someone whose blog was linked to from a blog of someone on my blogroll. Confusing enough?

So, without further delay... Part 2 of my Cheap Clone of Erik's Linkblog for Agile Java Developers!

Joe has managed to express the dilemma of 100% code coverage quite well and managed to use the phrase "pissing away money". Quite impressive.

Michael Harmer, the Nerdherder, has posted three excellent aphorisms on software development.

Pip has posted his 4th lesson, which -- unfortunately -- strikes gold with regard to my current project (in which I'm still not able to participate in coding...).

Perryn Fowler managed to revive my interest towards Agitator.

Matt Albrecht has been playing around with JUnit and IoC. An interesting combo...

Matt Snyder, Cedric and Jason van Zyl have been discussing about writing with a plain text tool set and lead me to discovering yet another CodeHaus project that has absolutely no documentation whatsoever. Dammit.

Dan Creswell, who usually blogs about Jini/JavaSpaces stuff, wrote about "thinking in the small" (project awareness, bliss of denial, that sort of things).

Someone mentioned jBehave in a blog entry (see, it happened again!) that made me think real hard if I should come up with my own programming language called "O" (that's "oh", not zero). Why? Because then someone could port jBehave into oBehave ;)

Also, I just took a look at iBatis SQL Maps for the first time and I certainly like what I see. Note that I haven't yet verified my initial gut feeling with actual code. Maybe I'll get around to do that and write up the experience.