“I’m Outta Here! How coworking is making the office obsolete” is a book about the people and places that make up a work place revolution. From a single space in San Francisco at the beginning of 2006, coworking has grown to over 70 spaces worldwide at the end of 2008, with more appearing almost daily. Read the book and you’ll see why so many talented workers have turned their backs to the office and said, “I’m outta here!”

An InnovationCamp is an ad hoc gathering of people who want to learn about innovation by doing rather than listening.  Andrew Jones, Julie Gomoll, and I hosted the first ever InnovationCamp, in Austin in the summer of 2008.

We were joined by at least 109 attendees from a diverse pool of independents, entrepreneurs, developers, designers, artists, writers, academics, businesses, startups, non-profits, the coworking community… This wasn’t just technology and cool product ideas (although that was there too). It was about innovation as a tool to create value, to improve our lives, to improve our community, and to serve the needs of our world.

• The InnovationCamp Wiki
• The InnovationCamp Blog
• On Flickr
• At the party afterward
• The post on Austin Startup
• The post on David Giesberg’’s blog
• The post on Michelle Greer’s blog
• …

From 1996 until 2002, I wrote for JavaWorld.  JavaWorld was one of the first online technical publications without a corresponding print version.  Its completely electronic format afforded great flexibility in planninng and scheduling and interactivity in content–things we take for granted today.  In 1996, it was all very cool.  I wrote a regular monthly column called “How-to Java”–over 60 articles in all.

• With Liberty and single sign-on for all
• Secure your Java apps from end to end, Part 3
• Secure your Java apps from end to end, Part 2
• Secure your Java apps from end to end, Part 1
• Build secure network applications with SSL and the JSSE API
• Construct secure networked applications with certificates, Part 4
• Construct secure networked applications with certificates, Part 3
• Construct secure networked applications with certificates, Part 2
• Construct secure networked applications with certificates, Part 1
• Secure thread collaboration across protection domains
• Signed and sealed objects deliver secure serialized content
• Alternative deployment methods, Part 3: The code
• Alternative deployment methods, Part 2: The best of both worlds
• Alternative deployment methods, Part 1: Beyond applets
• JNDI overview, Part 4: the Doc-u-Matic, a JNDI application
• JNDI overview, Part 3: Advanced JND
• JNDI overview, Part 2: An introduction to directory services
• JNDI overview, Part 1: An introduction to naming services
• Test for fun and profit, Part 3: The XML test framework
• Test for fun and profit, Part 2: Unit testing
• Test for fun and profit, Part 1
• XML and Java: A potent partnership, Part 4
• XML and Java: A potent partnership, Part 3
• XML and Java: A potent partnership, Part 2
• XML and Java: A potent partnership, Part 1
• Messaging makes its move, Part 2
• Messaging makes its move, Part 1
• In Java we trust
• Messaging helps move Java into the enterprise
• Signed and delivered: An introduction to security and authentication
• Application servers: An introduction
• The power behind the portal
• Zip your data and improve the performance of your network-based applications
• Agents can think, too!
• Agents talking to agents
• Agents on the move
• An introduction to agents
• Unfurling Java’s data transfer API
• MVC meets Swing
• Put your user interface on a diet
• Internationalize dynamic messages
• Localize this!
• Use the two “R”’s of Java 1.1 — Readers and Writers
• Write world-class applications
• Waging war on electronic junk mail
• Build dynamically extensible applications
• 3D computer graphics: Getting the hang of VRML
• 3D computer graphics: Moving from wire-frame drawings to solid, shaded models
• 3D computer graphics: Slide it, spin it, make it move — transforming your virtual world
• 3D computer graphics: Model your world
• When static images just don’t make the cut
• How Java uses the producer/consumer model to handle images — An insider’s look
• Learn how applets load network-based images asynchronously
• Drawing text is easy with three Java classes
• Examining HotSpot, an object-oriented drawing program
• Using the Graphics class
• Observer and Observable
• The effective user interface
• Java and event handling
• Introduction to the AWT

On December 7, 1999, I was awarded Patent #5999967 for “Electronic mail filtering by electronic stamp”.  I filed the patent myself on August 17, 1997.  The patent arose from the simple realization that be most effective way to choke-off spam is remove its economic advantage.

Less than one year after Sun released version 1.0 of the JDK (1995), I coauthored a book (1996) on the Java Language API.  At the time, “Java” consisted of java.lang, java.io, java.util, java.net, java.awt, and java.applet.  I wrote chapters on networking, strings, several of the util classes, and parts of the Java language itself.  Yes, I did know Java was going to be a very big hit–I’d been using C++ for years.