Year: 2002

Graham Glass on choosing to be Alpha Geek instead of CEO:

about a month ago i made the decision to bring in a seasoned CEO to run the mind electric. it’s always tempting as a founder to stay in the CEO role, but if you’re a technologist such as myself, there is absolutely no way to run a company and continue to play a lead technical role. in addition, i’m the first to admit that michael broderick’s CEO skills are way beyond my own! it is really great to be able to focus 100% on my lead architect role.

Graham also shipped GLUE 3.3 beta 1 on Friday and managed to get a Java app to compile with J# without any modification to the source.  That’s definately better than J++ was.  J++ makes me shudder.  The Java JVM was about two times faster than J# for what it’s worth.

Keith Devens:

Via E7L3 (who has some problem with his site being a weblog and therefore offers no permalinks), check out The Evolution of Programming Languages (PDF).

Keith is also thinking about writing a text editor.  He has some interesting thoughts on how to go about implementing such a project.  Good luck, Keith.

Charles Miller:

I’ve only ever written two SOAP applications. The first was “Hello World”, except it would give back a random quote from the fortune file instead of the boring Hello.

The second was truly diabolical. It was a tunneling proxy. It tunneled TCP/IP. Any TCP/IP whatsoever. Over SOAP.

OSNews:

FreeBSD 5.0-RC1 was just released, download its ISO from an ftp server near you.

0xDECAFBAD:

Attacking the process, or the village idiot himself, is not constructive.

LCDEmu is a sweet little GPL’d project that allows you to emulate an LCD device (the Matrix Orbital LCD) so that you can play around with LCDProc or develop for an LCD without having one.  This is an extremely cool little program.  Oh the things I could do with this if I had the time…

And Curveball only has an 18 day uptime because I needed to borrow a CD-ROM from it a few weeks ago.  The VIA Eden keeps on trucking.

There’s a perl module that should make writing to the LCD easy.  There are also lots of clients for LCDd/LCDProc out there.

Has anyone looked into Flash Remoting MX?

Macromedia Flash Remoting MX provides the connection between Macromedia Flash and your web application server, making it fast and easy to create Rich Internet Applications. With its powerful yet simple programming model, you can easily integrate rich Macromedia Flash content with applications built using Macromedia ColdFusion MX, Microsoft .NET, Java, and SOAP-based web services.

Let’s see:

Flash Remoting + Web Services + .NET + J2EE/J2SE/J2ME + desktop computers + mobility/wireless + weblogs + people == ???

The Phoenix Tips and Tricks site is a must-visit if you’re running Phoenix.  The page rendering speedup makes zippy Phoenix even zippier.

Sam Ruby:

Erik Hatcher is rewriting blossom in Java.

You might remember Erik as half of the dynamic Java Development with Ant duo.

TDK2.2, Turbine 2.2, and Torque 3.0 have been released.

Good morning, sports fans!

I saw My Big Fat Greek Wedding again tonight.  I was reminded why it brought in close to $4 million last weekend, having been in theatres for 33 weeks (over 8 months).

OSNews notes that Phoenix 0.5 is out.

Phil Windley has been playing with Axis and Eclipse and SOAP with EJBs.  Yes.  They rock.

David Johnson has come to the same conclusion that I have: Castor JDO needs to be renamed.

Postnuke 0.7.2.2 has been released.  From the freshmeat page:

A new free banner positioning and a new banner sideblock were implemented. All modules and the core have been secured against cross site scripting and other attacks. A new visual editor with upload capabilities was enabled. A new members list was created. Hundreds of bugfixes were made. Adodb was upgraded to 2.50. Support was added for register_globals = off (for full compatibility with php 4.2x and above. Apache 2.0.x is now supported. The pnIntrusion detection system was enhanced. Admin settings were added for censor, pnAnticracker, and article display. New admin icons were added. wBloggar support was added.

Seahorse:

Seahorse is a Gnome front end for GnuPG. It is a tool for secure communications and data storage. Data encryption and digital signature creation can easily be performed through a GUI, and Key Management operations also can be performed. This release just contains minor updates to 0.3.7, but more importantly is the beginning of the move to seahorse-0.6.0. Please use and test and send us any bug reports. Planned features for seahorse-0.6.0 are a file manager, basic key editing, and support for key servers.

Slashdot reports that PI has been calculated out to a trillion digits.

Kevin Werbach:

The Supernova group blog is up and running. Moveable Type users can send posts to it automatically using the Trackback feature; others can do so manually via a Web form.

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PHOTOGRAPHER ARRESTED FOR TAKING PICTURES OF VICE PRESIDENT’S HOTEL

Sometimes my government scares me.