Adam Jordens@littlesquare:~/

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 [...]