Adam Jordens@littlesquare:~/

I was actually chatting with a co-worker today about the threat posed by one of us (or for that matter, anyone travelling) losing a laptop. Just getting caught up on my blog reading duties and came across this ArsTechnica post on the subject. Sounds...

Anyone have experience with the tool FireStorm/DAO ? FireStorm/DAO makes Java software developers more productive by automatically generating Java source code for accessing relational databases. The benefits provided by CodeFutures Java code generation...

Well tonight I finished hacking together my first attempt at a Ruby on Rails-based application. Basically what I built was a clone of the *wars (ala kittenwars) site where you put images head to head and allow the viewer to vote. Not to be shy about...

I must say that the next version of the Notes desktop client (code named: "Hannover") is one of the nicest looking java applications I've ever seen. Screenshots are available here. What's "Hannover" you ask? "Hannover" is the next feature...

I played around with Ruby on Rails tonight for a couple of hours. I guess I've joined the masses now. It's pretty cool. Enuf said. Cool enough to push XUL onto the back burner for the next short whle. A pretty slick little framework. Simplier...

If you live this side of Mars, you've heard of Flickr. If you have a dog, you've probably already published a Flickr hack and have it listed here. Jeff Atwood has written a short piece on flickr hacks and includes a brief summary of some pretty...

I got an IM today from a friend and former colleague who works for a company (not to be mentioned here) that develops software incorporating substantial use of XUL. Besides the recruitment offer, I was intrigued with their usage of XUL. In their case,...

Jeremy Zawodny has a good writeup where he poses the question, what if search engines listened to pings? or offered a compatible ping API? I'm not involved with search but I do agree with his four critical variables about getting search right. Now...

Although its still in an incubation stage, Microsoft recently released part 3 of their start.com initiative. You can check out the latest incarnation here or here (if you want to skip the little puzzle). Start.com is still in a preview phase but...

I'm not a NetBeans user but after seeing this demo I may be forced to re-consider that choice. It sounds like this functionality will be included in the next release of the IDE, with a preview development version coming out at or around the time of...