Archive for April, 2004

I just happen to be watching that reality show about running a New York restaurant called Rocco’s and an interesting point came out.
Someone asked “How do you manage your time?” and the reply was “You have to know when to draw the line between actually building the product and selling it
“. This struck a [...]

I have, in the past hour, decided to make the switch from using a remotely hosted Roller instance (from the good guys at JRoller.com) to a locally installled instance of MovableType. I’ve been wanting to try out MT for sometime and finally decided to take the plunge. I probably won’t bother
to migrate [...]

I’ve contemplated writing some software to handle bookmark synchronization in Mozilla Firebird (between computers). I’ve been side-tracked lately with rea
l work, but I came across this. It’s a bookmark synchronizer that uses FTP t
o export your firebird bookmarks into xbel and ship them to an ftp site of your choice. You can [...]

I’ve been thinking about this sometime and figured I’d throw the idea out and see who else is on the same wavelength.
Problem: Email and blogging (reading) is a significant part of my profession life. I’m a software developer by trade, specifically in the
areas of Java/J2EE mixed with biotech, and reading various blogs helps me keep [...]




  • Pet Peeve: Don’t email my password to me in plain text You know the drill. Signup for some random service on the internet Receive a confirmation email with your account information or Forget a password for some random service ...

  • Eclipise Memory Analyzer (MAT) I must say the Eclipse Memory Analyzer looks pretty slick. There is some pretty good material over on the developers blog. Lastly, there was a talk on it ...

  • Open-source Web-based Code Review Tool: Rietveld Guido van Rossum, of Python fame, has recently released a Django-based application that enables web-based code reviews... Rietveld. It supports any language and currently can hook into Subversion repositories. You ...

  • An implementation of the JVM in Javascript? Caught this over on JavaPosse Google Groups. Essentially, some bright fellows over in Japan have developed a bytecode->javascript compiler. There's a demo floating around that took a Tetris ...

  • Facebook Chat? So it looks like the Facebook Chat service has finally started rolling out to my network (Facebook Chat has been mentioned previously). Not quite sure how ...