{"id":497,"date":"2009-02-28T08:41:38","date_gmt":"2009-02-28T16:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/?p=497"},"modified":"2009-02-20T20:42:49","modified_gmt":"2009-02-21T04:42:49","slug":"10-years-of-java","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2009\/02\/10-years-of-java\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Years of Java"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellspacing=\"10\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>\n<img height=\"140\" src=\"http:\/\/isbn.abebooks.com\/mz\/76\/13\/0131888676.jpg\">\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<b>Hello World(s) &#8212; From Code to Culture: A 10 Year Celebration of Java Technology<\/b><br \/>\n<br \/><i>Sun Microsystems Inc.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-1\">ISBN: 0-13-188867-6<br \/>\n<\/font>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Kid picked from my pile from weekend&#8217;s garage clean-up project and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xanga.com\/whisperingsea\/693150138\/a-remote-control-on-steroids\/\">blogged about it<\/a>.  It jerked back so much memory, bitter and sweet.  I brought this book to China in 2005 and bragged about my ownership of it to so many.  I would flip to pages and told stories like a veteran on his glorious battles in the long past.<\/p>\n<p>I left Sun with regret.  I tried hard to make it a great company, then I gave up and left.  I watched, on the side line, wishing that I was wrong leaving it.  It is somehow more satisfying to miss the <i>would-have<\/i> turn-around.  I would have been happy for friends; they would have teased me for missing out; that would have been cool.<\/p>\n<p>I now have less friends there, found myself caring less, and feeling more bitter. Sun seems determined not to capture opportunities, all too risky or difficult.<\/p>\n<p>I was right.  That does not feel good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello World(s) &#8212; From Code to Culture: A 10 Year Celebration of Java Technology Sun Microsystems Inc. ISBN: 0-13-188867-6 Kid picked from my pile from weekend&#8217;s garage clean-up project and blogged about it. It jerked back so much memory, bitter &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2009\/02\/10-years-of-java\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,3],"tags":[178,124],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":499,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions\/499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}