Andy Oliver: I suspect is the configuration that Sammy boy uses to run Gump on his Thinkpad… It is building all of Jakarta/XML/etc., so its understandibly a lot for my T-30 to do. Somehow, I manage on my T-23. Also, I think you underestimate the community. Centipede is getting on board – by starting small. My guess is that the JAXP stuff can all be removed. FYI: here is a complete list of dependencies that are required for a full build.
Category: Open Source
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Sam On Gump
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Java Development With Processing Power
I took my home-built machine into work this morning – and all was peachy until I asked the help desk to add my computer to the domain. Politics came into play and I was told that the technicians have to build the machines, not some dev-head. No biggie, just get me a faster machine I said. I argued with the guy for a bit as I tried to explain that a 700 Mhz, 128 MB RAM machine was too slow for Java Development. When he said that was one of the fastest machines they had, I almost choked. Luckily, they found a 2 Ghz machine that I get to start using tomorrow – this’ll be the 3rd machine I’ve built since I started last week. Damn. Sure is nice working from home when you have everything setup already. Do you think that tele-commuting will be the wave of the future? The clients that’ve paid me to work from home are getting a heckuva better deal than the ones that require an on-site consultant.
One of the fastest machines they had? Ouch. I think I need to build a new box in the near future. The more I use Ant and JUnit and do builds more frequently, the more free time I seem to have while things build and test. My current win-dev box is dual PIII-733, but the quick Athlon stuff is getting really inexpensive. Hmm…
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Sourceforge News
Several interesting tidbits show up in today’s Sourceforge news:
- They’re transitioning to IBM’s DB2. That strikes me as odd for an open source shop.
- They’ve launched DevChannel.org
- OSDN runs on about 200 servers.
- They’ve added IBM WebSphere to the compile farm. (Looks like they’ve earned some IBM sponsorship)
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A Java Christmas
Guess what I got for Christmas? My girlfriend’s parents snagged me Java Tools for Extreme Programming: Mastering Open Source Tools Including Ant, JUnit, and Cactus from my Amazon wishlist. Thanks! I’ve read the introduction and can’t wait to dive into it. It will definately compliment Java Development With Ant.
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OSCon 2003 Call for Participation
“It looks as if the CFP for next year’s OSCon has been announced. The deadline for submissions is February 15, so you better get moving…”
It’s happening in Portland, OR July 7-11 2003. I’m not sure if I’ll be able to make it, starving student and all. Attending the Web Services DevCon set me back significantly (even though fees were extremely reasonable). I learned a ton though. I’ll be attending PyConDC2003 because it’s about Python and it’s being held in my backyard.
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Roboant
An article I wrote (last summer) has finally been published in the February 2003 issue of JavaPro. It details how to write sophisticated custom Ant tasks by demonstrating how I built a custom Ant task to control IBM alphaWorks Robocode
The article is online at http://www.fawcette.com/javapro/2003_02/magazine/features/ehatcher/
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Open Source Databases
LinuxWorld Australia has an article on the present and future of open source databases.
My one sentace summary of the article: Open source databases are not 100% buzzword compliant yet, but they’re working on it. [via NewsForge]
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Cayenne Java persistence framework
Cayenne “Holiday Release” 1.0a5:
A new release of Cayenne is out. It plugs a few gaps in the core functionality, fixes tons of bugs and provides a much improved documentation. Cayenne is an object-relational persistence framework written in Java. It provides tools and libraries to work with relational databases in an object-oriented way. Cayenne consists of class libraries and a GUI tool for O/R mapping and deployment.
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Monday Linkfest
I roadtripped to North Carolina today to do lunch with some of the RTP bloggers. Excellent food and great conversation. I also did some last minute (except for me it’s just getting started) xmas shopping this evening. Instead of any real content, here are a bunch of things that I need to read in detail:
- Michael J. Radwin: “YHOO is buying INKT”
- Slashdot (and the rest of the planet) announced Red Hat 8.0.96, codenamed Phoebe. XFree updates, Moz 1.2.1, and glibc-2.3.1 seem to be the major points here.
- Sean & Scott install .NET Server RC2 using VMWare, with Sam Gentile‘s help. (I’m downloading RC2 myself right now, will try to throw it on a lonely box when I get a chance)
- Chris Gulker digs further into weblog statistics.
- DSpace 1.0.1 is released. “DSpace, currently in use at MIT Libraries, is a Java-based Open Source digital library system designed for scalability, and the long-term preservation of data (such as books, documents, and multimedia publications).”
- Rick Klau is making me drool over the Matrix sequels.
- Learn MIDP (J2ME) with a game. Mental note: I need to download the wireless toolkit, as it is much sexier than the barebones SDK.
- There is a fullblown service called Wapblogger which allows you to do much more than my whipped together WAPBlog script.
- Sadness: Joe Strummer of The Clash has died.
- Silicon.com reports that IBM is releasing its “Storage Tank” as open source.
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XFree86 4.3.0 Soon
XFree86 4.3.0 just around the corner:
The 4.2.99.3 snapshot, which should become the 4.3.0 release after bug testing and their appropriate fixes have been applied can now be found in our repository. It is tagged in our public CVS server as xf-4_2_99_3. Inquiries and issues should be directed to the Xpert mailing list (you need to subscribe before posting); bug fixes should be clearly marked that they are pertinent to this release and submitted to fixes@XFree86.org. Binaries will becomes available as they uploaded by our members; this should be completed by 24 December 2002. If bandwidth is a problem please use our mirrors.
[via PCLinuxOnline]
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2002 Real-Time Linux Workshop
LinuxDevices has put abstracts and papers from the 2002 Real-Time Linux Workshop online. Lots of embedded and real-time goodies to trawl through. [via NewsForge]
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Java Outline Editor 1.8.10 Released (Thanks Erik!)
Via Erik, Java Outline Editor 1.8.10 has been released. It looks like a well-featured outliner, and also contains XML-RPC support.
This is an outliner editor and MDI implemented in Swing. The GUI is similar to the outliner found in Userland’s Frontier. Starting with version 1.8.10, Java 1.4 is required. Previous versions require Java 1.3.
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The LWN 2002 Linux Timeline
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FreeBSD 5.0 RC2 Released
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Zeroconf
There’s a good article at O’Reilly Net that introduces Zeroconf (“Rendezvous” for all you Apple fans), Mutlicast DNS, and talks a bit about Microsoft’s push for Universial Plug n Play (UPnP).
From the sound of things, Rendezvous has a chance of becoming the standard. But it’s a bit too early to know anything for sure.
It sounds like the open source community could do well by getting behind this. Free time aside, I’d love to play around with this extremely cool technology.
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Wikis
Andy:
With Pier Fumagalli‘s invaluable help I set up the ApacheWiki and no sooner was it announced than Leo Simmons and others started generating documentation with vigor!
I tried to install MoinMoin the other day, but I don’t think I have the required libraries and stuff installed on the barebones server that I was playing on. I also would love to mess around with Tiki, but alas, no time.
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Linux-based Conference Registration System
There’s a good story over at NewsForge about a Linux-based Conference Registration System. It uses LAMP, iOpeners, LTSP, and some custom-built Java code. Very cool.
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Bochs 2.0
Kenneth Hunt notes that Bochs (an IA-32 emulator) 2.0 has been released.
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PocketSOAP 1.4.0
PocketSOAP v1.4.0 now available!, includes support for HTTP compression, and HTTP timeouts on PocketPC as well as a few bug fixes.
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Bloggers Against Stop Energy (BASE)
Okay. This post requires a little background. Ever since I can remember, I have been in the middle of things. Arguments. Fights between friends. Friends that were incompatabile with other friends that wanted to spend time with mutual friends. Hostile customers, hostile coworkers, hostile strangers.
I’m always in the middle.
I was probably a diplomat, mediator, problem solver, social worker, or something else in another life. I do everything that I can to avoid confrontation. When confrontation is unavoidable, I do my best to solve the problem for as many people as possible with the least amount of trauma. It’s what I do, don’t ask me why.
This brings me to the issue at hand. It seems that the CC software licensing debate at burningbird and intertwingly has come to a screeching halt. I feel partially responsible for this, and if you add in my natural behavior listed above, I want to do something about it if I can.
Sometimes we say or write stuff that comes out wrong. Or maybe it comes out right with the wrong inflections or emphasis. We end up saying more than we mean to say. I see Sam’s side. One defense mechanism against counterproductive bitching/moaning/flame wars in projects (open source and otherwise) is to take a ‘put up or shut up’ attitude.
At the same time, I can totally see how Shelly could be upset and frustrated. Weblogs and online collaboration/idea sharing should not be an elitest thing. All of this new communication technology is supposed to make things better, not worse.
I have a feeling that nobody involved wanted to cause a breakdown. I don’t think that very many people knowingly cause stop energy. It happens sometimes. What can the blogging community as a whole do to correct it? We can do our best not to send that email or publish that entry/comment that you made while you were hopping mad. Lets try to keep personal attacks to a minimum. Lets try to see something positive or something that makes sense on ‘the other side.’
I don’t want to turn this into a he said she said kind of thing. I really would like to do whatever I can to help diffuse the current situation and the whole stop energy phenomenon as a whole.
Things are busy today at work, and I don’t have the full time and energy to think about this in more detail, but I’m sure that something can be done. Perhaps consider Bloggers Against Stop Energy (BASE) as a project for my spare time and yours. Feel free to direct thoughts, rants and flames my way.
Update: I really like Simon St.Laurent‘s comment at burningbird:
“Shut up and write some code” should never be an answer. Coming up with powerful and elegant solutions requires thinking harder than that, and talking.