This week's book giveaway is in the Agile and other Processes forum. We're giving away four copies of The Mikado Method and have Ola Ellnestam and Daniel Brolund on-line! See this thread for details.
Why can't we have whatever forum name we want? I want to use the name "Lordly Caliber". But when I made a post I had thousands of forum police coming after me for not using a regular name.
Mike -- here is a description of the policy, along with a little bit of the "why". We want people to use real names because we're real Java professionals, and we want to recognize the other people we talk to as real Java professionals too. Someone with a silly or obviously fake display name doesn't seem very professional -- they seem like they're trying to hide or something. We want everyone here to get the respect they deserve, so we ask them to treat themselves with respect by putting their best foot forward in this way.