In her letter to Lincoln she mentioned that she had been advocating a national thanksgiving date for 15 years as the editor of Godey's Lady's Book. George Washington was the first president to proclaim a day of thanksgiving, issuing his request on October 3, 1789, exactly 74 years before Lincoln's.
Follow-the-sun is a workflow model in which work is passed on to the offices located in different time zones. In this way work is done round-the-clock thereby reducing the project or support duration and increasing the responsiveness.
This month we'll start off with some discussion about what is happening to the Java support for the platforms that are not one of Sun's big three (i.e., Solaris, Win95/NT, and MacOS) platform priorities. Then we'll move on to cool topics. In the beginning there was Oak.