Archive for May, 2004

Will the controversy ever end….
TMC Terminates Business with JBoss,
Inc.
From http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=26234,

We attempted to diplomatically work through our differences that arose from recent events. However, the instability and unprofessional conduct from JBoss I
nc. CEO Marc Fleury eroded our optimism for reaching resolution. We regret the inconvenience this may cause JBoss, Inc.
As a company that stewards communities [...]

Linux users can finally download a Flash 7 Player from Macromedia (available here).

Hopefully this will clear up some of the flash-related problems I’ve been having with
Mozilla Firefox and various news sites that present flash (abcnews, espn…etc). Although, for others having similar problems with flash sites, I’d recomm
end the FlashBlock Mozilla/Mozilla Firefox extension.

From it’s website, [...]

Matthew Wilson has some good advice in this thread on A good performance architecture ?.

Don’t worry too much about performance in your design phase. Dont ignore it of couse. Implement a smart design and it will alow for the changes that may ha
ve to be made for performance.

Based on my experiences, I tend to agree. [...]

Here’s a _very_ quick and dirty little javascript bookmarklet that I put together for use with the www.javadocs.org service. It will prompt you for a java
class, and then open the Javadoc’d API for the class via www.javadocs.org.

javascript:topic=prompt(’Search API for…’ );location=’http://www.javadocs.org/’ + escape(topic);

Just add a bookmark with that as the contents and voila. [...]

freshmeat.ne
t: Editorials - Xtreme Programming and Open Source Software Development
A nice short little freshmeat editorial on XP. I especially like the quote In Russia there is a famous saying: “never show halfdone work to an idiot”, with which I agree completely. I’m currently working in an environment which has split personalities when it [...]

LaughingMeme: Web Based Color Tools
A short list of some extremely useful web-based utilities that can be used to help choose visually pleasing color schemes.
I’m not an artist by any means, and it’s little tools like this that help developers like me build nice looking online (and offline) applications. Of cour
se if you [...]




  • 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 ...





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    • Meetings all day, no time to hit the gym. Guess I better go now.... 6:30am.
    • Played around with Fring for a couple minutes tonight, Skype seemed to work (if only to call a test account of mine). 3G would be nice! :)
    • Watched nick and norahs tonight. Have to admit that it was pretty funny. Two weeks until W, wonder what that's going to be like.
    • Locly is a pretty sweet location-based app for the iPhone. Should have busted it out last week in Seattle.

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