Hilarious: madbean's Totally Gridbag

This is hilarious: madbean's Totally Gridbag!

Even though I'm probably one of the dozen or so java programmers who used to actually like the Gridbag layout... One of those things that once you get the hang of it, it's pretty powerful, and I used it all the time (much to the dismay of my fellow programmers, one of whom I married :-).

I agree that at first it is way too complex though, and I much prefer my current life as an Eclipse/SWT programmer :-)

Flawed arguments in Big Blue Gets Religion?

Enter The JBoss Matrix: "lacking in community support (Less than 100 posts in 7 months of existence compared to 3,000 per month on the JBoss forums- http://www.gluecode.com/forums/index.jspa). Geronimo is obviously not J2EE certified. It is obviously low-end. It obviously is not tracking the EJB3 spec. Gluecode has written far less code (for example, in Q4 of last year Geronimo had 800 total new commits, while JBoss had over 7,000). "

That's a silly way of measuring.... Perhaps there are no posts because Geronimo simply works and no support is needed. And less is better - much better - when it comes to the amount of code, even if measuring the number of commits would be a valid measurement for amount of code, which it is not.

I'm not arguing for or against either Geronimo, JBoss or any other product, just observing a flawed argument