Jay Fields' Thoughts

I have a personal hatred for weekend conferences*. To me, a weekend conference ensures that I'll be "working" for 12 straight ...

Someone once asked me if I thought Clojure was more expressive than even Ruby. I didn't have enough information to form an opinion then,...

Last weekend, at the Hacker B&B, I mentioned to Jason Rudolph that my current team has no cardwall. He was a bit surprised and asked wh...

At SpeakerConf 2009, one of the speaker's wives asked me: Why is it that most speakers are confident, and some are simply arrogant. The...

I've noticed a pattern pop up a few times in my Java code in the past 6 months. Maybe it's a decent pattern, or maybe I only have a ...