Archive for August, 2004

J2EE with EJB’s (accessed from both a thin web client and thick desktop client) is what I do primary at work. However, for some time I’ve had an interest
in light weight containers but have only had the opportunity to play with Spring briefly on a personal project. I am a fan of what [...]

URLinfo beta || Fagan Finder
Caught a link to this little tool over on Marc Canter’s blog.
URLInfo is a bookmarkletable service that given a URL can return all sorts of information about it. You can get links statistics from most of the blog ind
exing services (technorati, feedster..etc) from a central location and also [...]

The web’s usefulness grows each day. More great content is available each week. More transactions are executed as users buy more goods online. Unfortunatel
y the web is also very large and dynamic. How many times have you gone back trying to find an article you read only days before but not finding it? How man
y [...]

Finally got around to upgrading my installation of movable type from 2.61 to 3.01.
Everything went nice and smooth. A trivial upgrade process.
Given that I had to re-setup the default templates, I decided it was time to start creating my own css style. Currently it’s a work in progress, but it sh
ouldn’t [...]

Raible’s Wiki: AppFuse
History
I’ve been developing a little fitness application off-and-on for the past 6 or 7 months. Primarily it has been swing front-end, postgresql on the back, an
d hibernate in the middle.
The application is a combination of providing me with the opportunity to build something useful (to myself at least) and play with a [...]

NewsIsFree: News Maps - in collaboration
with The Hive Group
A java applet that presents a clean, clear and efficient way to visualize a large number of articles. Provides decent filtering abilities. If the web alre
ady provides your news fix, NewsIsFree News Maps might be for you.
I think it would be cool if it were [...]




  • 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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