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 [...]




  • 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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