David Van Couvering 's Blog

Moving to new digs

I've decided to move my blog to a new location. You can now find me at http://davidvancouvering.blogspot.com.

Why am I making the move? Well, this was a hard decision. I really like the java.net community, and I like how the editor takes care to call out cool and interesting stuff.

But the problem is, sometimes I want to talk about more than Java, and more than my work. And java.net really wants and needs to stay focused on Java technology and things that impact Java (like Ruby). If my blog waxes poetic about politics or the cutest thing my kid did the other day, it tends to diffuse the focus of this site. People come here for serious Java stuff.

I also am a little constrained by the fairly rigid walls of java.net as a blogging platform. Personally, I'm tired of typing in raw HTML. I want to have a few widgets, not many, on my page. I want Google Reader to show the whole post, not just the blurb. Things like that.

If you don't want to see cute pictures from time to time, or hear about my opinions on education, and you can subscribe just to the "technology" label. There's also a quicklink label, for useful delicious links that I have auto-posted to my blog.

So, see you at my new digs!

P.S. Yes those are probably the dullest photos on my "recent Flickr Photos" widget. But I promise they'll change from time to time :) (Most of you will probably be reading my through an aggregator anyway and won't even see my fun widgets. Too bad...)

Comments

• Feed updated. :-)

  PS I feel at ease with Java.Net for what concerns the editorial perspective, the tech stuff really needs to be improved. For instance, there are open source HTML editors, I don't understand why we are still forced to type raw HTML....

  Posted by: fabriziogiudici on June 27, 2007 at 02:04 AM

• To support WYSIWYG html editing, a firefox plugin can help a lot, it is called Xinha, very useful.

  In fact, I edit this comment with Xinha.

  David, at your new blog, the image takes half the page. Probably you have a really big screen, but in my case (1280x800)I need to (always) scroll down to read the content.
  
  

  Posted by: claudio on June 27, 2007 at 06:35 AM

• Claudio - thanks for the link to the Xinha plugin. Looks very nice.

  Posted by: kirillcool on June 27, 2007 at 11:16 AM

• Nice...
  http://www.impact-fellowship.org/_cusudi/0000007a.htm
  http://www.chaco.gov.ar/meccyt/subsecyt/_act1/0000060b.htm
  http://www.chaco.gov.ar/meccyt/subsecyt/_act1/00000353.htm
  http://www.wapug.org.uk/_CoP_discussion/00001ca9.htm
  Harvard - Harvard

  http://www.wapug.org.uk/_CoP_discussion/00001ca8.htm
  Stanford - Stanford
  http://washington.uwc.edu/about/faculty/rybak_c/webpage/_disc10/00005663.htm
  http://orgs.salisbury.edu/fishing/Discussion/0000737f.htm
  Yale - Yale

  Posted by: jamesdalton on January 21, 2008 at 12:43 AM

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