Hatfield Job Ad

Hatfield is advertising for a number of positions in this next weekend's Vancouver Sun. I got to do the ad artwork for this one. The best quote from management while doing up this ad was (you'll like this Barb): "could you just make the logo larger?"

Java acronyms

My company has decided to go down the route of purchasing an enterprise document management system from Xythos. Unfortunately this is a Java system, so I have to learn a whole lot of new terminologies. Jeff Hanson has this great quote:

"Welcome to acronym hell. Sometimes I wonder if this whole Java/J2EE thing would have failed miserably, had it not been for the availability of the A-R-chive acronym derivatives. As you breeze through literature and Web sites that discuss Java and J2EE, you will see such acronyms as RAR, WAR, JAR, EAR, and possibly even TAR. I predict that someday, Java and J2EE will enable you to jump in a CAR, drive to the BAR, get in a WAR discussing PAR, hit somebody with an OAR and then turn and run FAR. Where's my rimshot?"

I hope that the pain of Java is worth it - Xythos has a really cool, really easy to use system. Imagine having access to your network drive anywhere in the world that you have an internet connection - and all without any security concerns! Pretty cool to me. Let's just hope Java doesn't ruin the day.