More TCK kudos

["Alan D. Cabrera" <li...@toolazydogs.com>]

I would also like to chime in and thank those people who worked on the 
security and interop tests.

Jeff Genender from Virtuas jumped right in and cranked out the JACC 
tests in no-time.  Not only did he come in cold and dove into the 
intricacies of JACC and our implementation, he also was able to tangle 
with some hairy TCK issues; I am prohibited from going into details but 
suffice it to say he has some nasty bite marks you know where.  Special 
thanks to Nachi, Jeff's wife, for putting up with her absent husband.

Dain Sundstrom from IBM who didn't take technical limitations as a final 
answer and coded around the obstacles we ran into.  We ran into many 
dead-ends but it was his can do attitude that got us through.  Dain was 
able to dig into the intricacies of IIOP and come up with some great 
solutions in an incredibly short time.  Dain was instrumental in 
coordinating the interop effort and was able to make sure that resources 
filled in gaps.  Special thanks Marleta for putting up w/ an absent Dain 
and for, well, pretty much putting up w/ Dain.

David Jencks, also from IBM.  There is no piece of the Geronimo server 
that David hasn't had a significant hand in and interop was no 
exception.  We didn't get to see him too much at JavaOne because he was 
holed up in a hotel room with Dave Blevins, cranking out tests.  Not 
many people know that David took the TCK effort so seriously that he 
vowed never to cut his hair or shave until all the tests passed.  We all 
eagerly wait to see the new David.  ;)

Thanks again guys!


Regards,
Alan

Re: More TCK kudos

[Gianny Damour <gi...@optusnet.com.au>]

+1

Also, I do think that it is worth to notice that these two areas, and 
interop especially, are very complex. FWIW, I have stopped trying to 
follow IIOP related commits a long time ago as it was way above my 
understanding. As an aside, these guys have been/are really fast. Not 
many people know that ubiquitous David J. complains to have a slow 
laptop; my point of view is that he is simply faster than his laptop.

So, I take my hat off to them; we owe them a lot!

Gianny

On 4/07/2005 7:25 PM, Alan D. Cabrera wrote:

> I would also like to chime in and thank those people who worked on the 
> security and interop tests.
>
> Jeff Genender from Virtuas jumped right in and cranked out the JACC 
> tests in no-time.  Not only did he come in cold and dove into the 
> intricacies of JACC and our implementation, he also was able to tangle 
> with some hairy TCK issues; I am prohibited from going into details 
> but suffice it to say he has some nasty bite marks you know where.  
> Special thanks to Nachi, Jeff's wife, for putting up with her absent 
> husband.
>
> Dain Sundstrom from IBM who didn't take technical limitations as a 
> final answer and coded around the obstacles we ran into.  We ran into 
> many dead-ends but it was his can do attitude that got us through.  
> Dain was able to dig into the intricacies of IIOP and come up with 
> some great solutions in an incredibly short time.  Dain was 
> instrumental in coordinating the interop effort and was able to make 
> sure that resources filled in gaps.  Special thanks Marleta for 
> putting up w/ an absent Dain and for, well, pretty much putting up w/ 
> Dain.
>
> David Jencks, also from IBM.  There is no piece of the Geronimo server 
> that David hasn't had a significant hand in and interop was no 
> exception.  We didn't get to see him too much at JavaOne because he 
> was holed up in a hotel room with Dave Blevins, cranking out tests.  
> Not many people know that David took the TCK effort so seriously that 
> he vowed never to cut his hair or shave until all the tests passed.  
> We all eagerly wait to see the new David.  ;)
>
> Thanks again guys!
>
>
> Regards,
> Alan
>
>
>
>
>

Re: More TCK kudos

[David Blevins <da...@visi.com>]

On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 02:25:32AM -0700, Alan D. Cabrera wrote:
> I would also like to chime in and thank those people who worked on the 
> security and interop tests.
> 
> Jeff Genender from Virtuas jumped right in and cranked out the JACC 
> tests in no-time.  Not only did he come in cold and dove into the 
> intricacies of JACC and our implementation, he also was able to tangle 
> with some hairy TCK issues; I am prohibited from going into details but 
> suffice it to say he has some nasty bite marks you know where.  Special 
> thanks to Nachi, Jeff's wife, for putting up with her absent husband.
> 
> Dain Sundstrom from IBM who didn't take technical limitations as a final 
> answer and coded around the obstacles we ran into.  We ran into many 
> dead-ends but it was his can do attitude that got us through.  Dain was 
> able to dig into the intricacies of IIOP and come up with some great 
> solutions in an incredibly short time.  Dain was instrumental in 
> coordinating the interop effort and was able to make sure that resources 
> filled in gaps.  Special thanks Marleta for putting up w/ an absent Dain 
> and for, well, pretty much putting up w/ Dain.
> 
> David Jencks, also from IBM.  There is no piece of the Geronimo server 
> that David hasn't had a significant hand in and interop was no 
> exception.  We didn't get to see him too much at JavaOne because he was 
> holed up in a hotel room with Dave Blevins, cranking out tests.  Not 
> many people know that David took the TCK effort so seriously that he 
> vowed never to cut his hair or shave until all the tests passed.  We all 
> eagerly wait to see the new David.  ;)

ROFL!!!!!

> 
> Thanks again guys!

+ 100000....

Awesome work guys!


-David