Archive for March, 2006

Riya Beta

I just got my email about registering for the Riya beta.
Don’t know what Riya is?
Basically some next generation face recognition software that will eventually provide a more efficient and effective way of searching and indexing photographs (that’s my take on it, it may or may not jive with Riya’s true mission)
My first impression is that [...]

JBoss faster on Windows

On a whim I decided to migrate our development environment from being Linux-based to at least being usable on a Windows machine.
My original intentions were to package everything together with cygwin and attempt to keep things self contained.  It probably would have worked but I soon realized that it was just as easy if not [...]

Anyone know if its possible?
I’ve got a significant number of bookmarks but I’d like to do a bit of re-organization. Trouble is, I haven’t come across a mechanism to do it in any way that resembles a batch. It would be rather tedious to have to resort to entry-by-entry edits.
What I have come [...]

I didn’t really know what to think at first. I signed up, added one person to my contact list, had one conversation, and stopped using it.
For one, I already had a jabber account (for work IM) and a personal MSN account, not to mention a throw back ICQ account from the old days.
I didn’t really [...]




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  • Windows Live Writer isn’t bad Until recently, the bulk of my writing was done on a Mac using Ecto.  I was looking for a suitable publishing tool for Windows and was directed towards ...

  • 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 ...






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