I'm so busy that when you see me not doing work, I'm actually putting something else I should be doing off until later. I imagine I'll have a day where everything is due at once and I'll explode.

This is only until December, though. I can take it.

We just released a new version of Jobster.

You can read about it all on:

- TechCrunch
- The Wall Street Journal
- The Jobster Blog
- probably lots of other news sites and blogs soon...

Big announcements:

- It's free to post a job on Jobster! No need to spend $475 for a post on monster.com. Superstar tags match jobs with people. This is the realization of one of the directions we wanted to go with Jobby.

- Jobster will be powering the Career Center on Facebook. (That's why I was in Palo Alto/San Francisco last week. Those guys are great.)

Read my blog entry at the ONLamp Blog

"Several weeks ago there was a notable bit of controversy over some comments made by James Gosling, father of the Java programming language. He has since addressed the flame war that erupted, but the whole ordeal got me thinking seriously about PHP and its scalability and performance abilities compared to Java. I knew that several hugely popular Web 2.0 applications were written in scripting languages like PHP, so I contacted Owen Byrne - Senior Software Engineer at digg.com to learn how he addressed any problems they encountered during their meteoric growth. This article addresses the all-to-common false assumptions about the cost of scalability and performance in PHP applications."

My article was published today.

This is from the O'Reilly RSS Feed:

"Where are the all-in-one PHP frameworks that make building well-factored and maintainable applications as easy as building simple sites? Brian Fioca shows how to make a simple database-backed site with WASP in just a few lines of code."

Feel free to digg the article.

AK JUG (akjug.org) - the Alaska Java User Group has just been founded by me.

Jean and I are going on our trip to Montana next week! If we do anything cool, I'll write up an article for www.craftytraveler.com - It's a new website that a friend and coworker has just set up to try help provide an answer to "where should I go on vacation?" It's a really cool concept, actually... and it's interesting because its almost like he's quitting his day job to travel the world and write about it. Gotta love that.

Work's been keeping me busy, and there's a rumor going around of this great job coming up in Barrow, AK. That's kinda extreme. It doesn't get any daylight there for like 2 months in the winter time. I'm sure if I had anything to do with that project, it would be just for short periods, but it's still kinda neat.

I know I don't like to talk about politics here, but the John Roberts nomination for Supreme Court left me with a bit of an eat-my-words situation so I should point it out. One of the biggest reasons I was worried about George Bush for president in the '04 election was because I was worried about his potential picks for the Supreme Court. I can't find anything wrong with this particular nomination, so I must admit I'm pleasantly surprised. One of the few times lately that politicians have surprised me pleasantly. The rumor is that when Rehnquist retires Bush may nominate current Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, which also seems OK to me - but I must admit the only thing I really know of this are reports that it would anger his far right base... that's gotta be good, right? :)