Well, just found out about a built in integration between IntelliJ IDEA and Jira which is really cool. Head over to your project Version Control settings, go to Issue Navigation, and over there, add your Jira instance url. Cool!

This week I am heading to The Spring Experience at Sunny (hopefully) Florida. I will be presenting Compass and Nati is going to present GigaSpaces.

If you wish to join up for some beers and talk about Compass/GigaSpaces or Search/Distributed Systems just drop me an line.

Just came across this video which cranked me silly:

And usually, it got me started thinking about software development and especially Java next version. For example, press play and sing the following lyrics:

Java 7 coming out
exciting times, maybe not

Still working on version 5
OSX sucks

Thought I use the perfect language
JSR make me anguish

learned about closures
to find out its a worthless pile of crap

suffered through the ruby craze
to find out its not a phase

OSGi, Java modules,
would you like to place a bet?

old JSRs are here again,
JCACHE, XML

time to write a Java book,
it will be 1500 pages long!

here comes another version,

its a shameless copy
of .NET and ruby

first you need a closure,
then a second and a third

take at least three shots
at getting generics right

find yourself a task to do
fork it out, join it back

just a pretty way to say
map reduce all the way

need a cool feature list
must be simple, backward compatible

something cool like
invokedynamic, BigDecimal, multicach, and rethrown

write yourself a simple switch
code it up just with strings

add some setters to your bean
chain them up, sexy beast

here comes another version

SUN is rocking,
so don’t come a knocking

fight fight fight it out
fight it if its big or small

Anybody care to continue? :)