Matt Croydon::Postneo

Year: 2002

  • Today is Eldred day.

  • That’s about it for the night.  I have convinced my ancient Pentium laptop (Win95) to take a LAN card, as well as continue to support the 14.4 modem that’s in there.  I’m going to try to find some prepaid dialup access that will work on Win95 with my hardware.  Otherwise I have to dial in long distance to my home box for access.

    I wish I could float a grand or two to buy a new laptop for this conference, I’m going to be hurting without decent web access, groove, disk space, and stuff.  I’ll be bringing pen and paper as well as this crappy laptop.  I’m sure the batteries won’t last too long, so I may end up transcribing my notes/blog entries. 

    I can’t wait to meet everybody at the DevCon!

    Plan for the morning/early afternoon:

    • Get up
    • Check RSS feeds/mail
    • Pack/Breakfast/Shower etc
    • Go to school
    • Find some prepaid net access
    • Get on a plane

  • Ray Ozzie on localhost web services

  • Sam Ruby:

    For a preview of Thursday’s keynote at the devcon, see Mark Pilgrim‘s In praise of evolvable formats.  That might also explain the apparent obsession of late on the topic of RSS.  Hopefully I still have a few novel ideas left that you won’t see first on Mark’s blog.

  • Applying Groove Experiments

    As I’m getting stuff together for my flight tomorrow (to attend the Web Services DevCon), I’m thinking about Groove Experiments.  How awesome would it be to have a Groovespace for each of the sessions at an event/conference and having the content of that space stream out to a publicly accessable weblog in real time?  Several people could get together in a Groovespace after (or even during) a presentation to flesh out topics outlined in the presentation.  We could take the next logical step.  We could write code.  We could unleash it on the world.

    Many webloggers will be attending the DevCon.  We will get coverage from many people, but what would it be like if everything was aggregated in one space, with discussion, notes, code snippets, and images right there for everyone?

    I’m tempted to use blosxom and blagg to aggregate everyone’s blog entries, but working in a Groovespace would just rock!

  • Scott Hanselman:

    ‘ToDo: Unsigned Integers not supported

    Ever wonder what happens when you try to port low-level code from C# to VB.NET?

  • Kenneth Hunt points to a micro-atx dual Athlon-MP motherboard.  Rock on!  How about a dual VIA Eden board?  🙂

  • Peter Drayton on Groove:

    If the experimentation with Groove/weblog integration helps us to more seamlessly transition from collaboration to communication and back again, it will advance the state of the discourse, which is goodness.

  • O’Reillynet: Securing Linux: Why It’s Worthwhile and Achievable:

    I don’t presume to know in any definitive way whether Linux is more or less securable than other Unix variants. What I do know is this: Linux is useful, stable, and securable enough to warrant the time and effort required to “harden” it against Internet threats. This article explains some of the reasons I believe it’s both possible and worthwhile to secure Linux for use as an Internet server platform.

  • Are you a smartass?  Design the JIRA 2.0 tshirt and get a couple.

    My entry: JIRA 2.0 – We could have called it Javaanal!

    This is when I start getting really weird goggle searches in my referral log, isn’t it?

  • Sam Gentile:

    A dozen or so of us have been tossing around a lot of great ideas in the Groove Experiments shared space. One of our concerns, of course, is how to seemlessly share our findings publically with a wide public mechanism. Tonight, we decided to re-focus completly in a new direction, one direction. We felt that instead of continuing to be somewhat abstract that it would be better to take one of our ideas, discuss it, form requirements, and start writing code! We have decided to focus on a Groove to Weblog interface. We do realize that there have been two previous partial implementations that we will be looking at: Tim Knipp’s Blogger Tool and the Agora Groovelog. One of the members is looking into those two. We realize that this kind of dump from me here now is not optimal. Ideally we would like to have things available in real-time as they happen publically. Maybe this Tool or Solution will go a long way toward that.

  • Sam Gentile:

    Five of us are at this moment, working from five different places in the world in Groove Experiments doing the Requirements and Design of a Groove to Blog tool. Real time. Amazing. Talk  about Extreme Programming!

    It has been a productive evening.  I need to finish scanning my news and get back to work, cause if you’re bloggin’ you’re not workin’.

  • Ed Cone on Tara Sue:

    There is something powerful about a young, dedicated mother defending the right of women to choose on reproductive rights.

  • Happy Fun Inbox

    I just got the following email from Chris Sells, who’s throwing a weblogger get together disguised as a Web Services DevCon.

    Conference registration begins at 8am on Thursday morning, where you will receive your badge and your copy of the proceedings. The welcome starts at 8:45am and the keynote will begin at 9am. I hope everyone is looking forward to this conference as much as I am. Wahoo!

    On a serious note, I’m really excited about the conference, and getting to meet some of the .NET at web services webloggers is quite a bonus.

  • OSNews reviews SuSe 8.1 Professional:

    If there are two things in this apartment that I don’t like, that would first be the dog upstairs which barks at 5 AM almost every morning, and the fact that UPS almost never deliver things on our door. They never bother to check if we are in. The SuSE people were very kind to send us the Professional version of SuSE 8.1, but unfortunately, I received it 10 days later after it arrived in the apartment’s complex. But now we got it here, we gave it a spin for almost a week, and here is what we think about it.

  • Jeremy Zawodny:

    A week ago, I couldn’t keep the server from shitting itself every 12 hours. Now it’s been up for almost 5 days.

  • Loosely Coupled:

    Then, just at the moment when everybody hates web services so much they can’t even bear to read about the technology any more, mainstream adoption will begin to build, unnoticed by the media as it moves on in search of other topics.

  • A press release that caught my eye:

    BEDFORD, Mass., Oct. 7 /PRNewswire/ — Sonic Software today announced that it has contributed standards-based enterprise-class SOAP messaging capabilities to Apache Axis, the next generation of Apache SOAP 2.0. With the acceptance of source code for inclusion in Apache Axis 1.0, Sonic delivers its market-leading reliable, asynchronous Web services expertise to the largest open-source Web application community.

    Is it just me or does the Boston/New England area seem to feel like a web services hotspot? [via Newsforge]

  • Some things never change

    A few days ago, I snagged the GTK+2 version of GKrellM, probably the best system monitor that I have ever used, regardless of platform.  I love that everything is right there in front of you.  I was curious to see how the new version might take advantage of the new GTK+2 libraries.  It does not appear any different than it did before, and I don’t think that’s really a bad thing.

    You can find plugins to monitor many services and tasks at a glance, and it’s fully skinnable.  If you use a *nix or *BSD running with Gnome libraries, you should probably at least have access to it.

    I still love Bluecurve.  It’s been rock solid both idle and under stress.  I don’t have killer uptime because I’ve had borrow parts from it over the past couple of days, but I’m pretty sure that it is capable of it.

    I still want to see one in a production environment.

  • Both Mongomery County and Prince George’s county schools are on lockdown now.