SQL's brain-lock on the development community....

I was reading this blog post by Tim Bray on the subway this morning. It seems so spot on to me. So, I'll link to it now and maybe comment on it later.
By the way, Tim was one of the co-founders of OpenText back in the day.

Tim Bray: Multi-Inflection-Point Alert. The comments are quite insightful as well.

How Fast Can OpenOffice.org Be Extended?

Here's a nice article with code and screenshots on how to extend Open Office using Java. When I was playing around trying to do some stuff with Plucker, I also noticed they have a Java package to handle Palm database files (.pdb). Look around in their repository. You might actually find some useful code.

TDD, yeah you know me

If you've been keeping up with my rants lately, you know that I have become a big advocate of TDD in the last few months. But, it's a practice that's hard to convert people to, including yourself. I wish I could even get to the point with code coverage that I could get to this argument. Alas, I'm not there yet with my current group. Follow the link. There are a lot of good comments related to TDD following the post on Cedric's blog. Like anything, it's not for everyone, or for everything. But, you should at least look at the idea.

Otaku, Cedric's Blog: TDD leads to an architectural meltdown around iteration three