OS X IP over FireWire Preview Release. LocalTalk is back!
I had thought that IP over Firewire (and other exotic/esoteric media) would be really cool, but never got off my butt to play around with it. Excellent idea, I hope that it makes it into the mainstream.
CNet is a little slow to pick this one up. Worse than Slashdot even. Their coverage of the new (7.0) release of Intel’s C++ compiler brings a question to mind. I know that the Intel compilers are highly regarded as being very compliant to the specs and are also pretty zippy. My question is: does anyone use these compilers outside of an academic or research setting? It’s not cheap (but not outrageously expensive either at $399), but from what I’ve heard it’s a great compiler. I’m sure that most of the win32 GUI apps out there are being authored in some language with some version of Visual Studio. What exaclty does the Intel compiler excel in? It used to blow GCC out of the water. With recent releases, GCC has made up some ground, but Intel still outperforms it.
Blog it or email me, I’d love to know. Did I ever tell you that I was a big picture kinda guy?
Jeremy Zawodny has the scoop on the Yahoo Messenger for Linux:
It’s unofficial and unsupported. Use at your own risk. It’s version 0.99.21. It’s here. It fixes some very annoying bugs that users of 0.99.19 are likely seeing.
If you’d rather wait for the next official one (rumored to be 0.99.22) hang on a week or two. It’ll probably appear on im.yahoo.com.
I have examined the latest version of Castor JDO; it is very different from the Java Data Objects (JDO) standard. It uses Exolab’s OQL query language implementation, which uses ODMG’s query language name, yet it is not compliant with ODMG’s OQL. JDO has its own query facility, called the Java Data Objects Query Language (JDOQL). The JDOQL and OQL languages are very different, offering different capabilities. There are many fundamental differences between Castor JDO and the JDO standard.
I’m a little confused, being an all around blogger and not a java.blogger, with my Java experience being 1.1/1.2/J2SE1.3/1.4. The article alleges that Castor is not JDO (Java Data Objects) compliant. This strikes me as odd, as David Johnson has been using it in a possibly pluggable manner for persistence in Roller. I don’t think it really matters a whole ton, as long as Castor is useful in some way or another, as it appears there are no free (beer, lunch, etc) JDO implementations:
If you are considering the use of the Castor JDO product, you are now aware that it does not support the JDO standard. You would have access to a free object-relational mapping tool, but one with a proprietary API. However, if you would like to build your applications using the JDO standard, you should consider one of the many commercial implementations now available.
So as long as I’m getting my information correctly, horray for Exolab for creating a very cool (free) product, Castor. At the same time, it’d be nice if they made it a little clearer that they were doing their own thing and not implementing the JSR-12 JDO. It confuses the bloggers, for one thing.
# Original version by Sam Ruby, written in Python.
# Ported to Perl, and enhanced by Jim Jagielski
# Enhanced to have links to personal pages by Sam Ruby.
# Enhanced to have the code suck less by Ask Bjoern Hansen.
The latest article posted at Advogato:
In recent years, computer science has become more of an applied science than a pure discipline. It is true that much of the driving force behind proliferation of computing devices is commercial. However, over-commercialization has begun cultivating products that give rise to ethical issues.
In this brief article, I shall mention two such areas which require our immediate attention in both making the public aware and warning the future researchers of the implications.
The first issue of php|architect is out. It is priced reasonably too. $1.99 per issue or 12 issues for $18.99. Lots of good stuff seems to be in there. [via NewsForge]
It looks like Ed Cone is getting the snow and freezing rain that is headed my way.
Doc Searls (Skywave):
Mark my blog: Ogg is going to seriously kick ass in the long run.
Wow. Phil Windley is resigning as CIO for the state of Utah:
I submitted my resignation as CIO for the State of Utah this morning. It is effective December 31, 2002. I have many mixed emotions: anger, sadness, excitement, and relief, among others.
File that under things that catch you by suprise. The rest of his blog entry goes into a little detail, and he plans to get into it a little more down the road. Good luck, Phil!
Diego goes into making a pretty and functional UI with Java/Swing in a little more detail.
As the open-source movement is gains momentum, the debate over its future heats up. Can this loosely-formed coalition be able to withstand the pressure of Microsoft and other big companies that live off proprietary software? Read about it at ZDNet.
OSNews points to an article at Coyote Gulch:
“The latest gcc holds it own against Intel C++, winning some benchmarks it lost previously. There are still applications where Intel shines, but the differences between the compilers have narrowed. So which compiler is better? Like Einstein, I have to say the answer is relative.” Read the article here.
CNet:
SANTA CLARA, Calif.–A key figure for standards body the Wi-Fi Alliance says the wireless networking industry will surpass the revenue of household products such as Budweiser beer by 2006.
OSNews managed to get their hands on a Sun Blade 150:
Sun Microsystems loaned OSNews the high-end version of the new Sun Blade 150 series workstation, which sells for $3,395 USD (no monitor). Since this Solaris 9/SPARC machine is intended as a workstation, it is here reviewed as such in this article and not as a server.
A review of the latest survey from Evans Data Corporation on how Web services are spreading across the Enterprise.
Krysalis Centipede is a project build system based on Apache Ant. Centipede uses pre-packaged modules called “cents” that it downloads and installs automatically. Cents can be used as Ant tasks or easy to use targets.
For example, Forrest is an XML standards oriented project documentation framework based on Apache Cocoon. In order to assist your projects adoption of this powerful documentation generation tool we have packaged it as a cent that will (optionally) be automatically downloaded, installed and used to build project documentation which includes output from other cents such as Javadoc, JDepend, Checkstyle and many others.
Hmm. This sounds like Gentoo/package system/ports system for Java. A very cool idea.
Man #1: “…so I was trying to ping this guy’s computer, but….”
Man #2: “What do you mean ‘ping’?”
Man #1 suddenly punches Man #2 in the shoulder.
Man #1: “Now hit me back.”
Man #2 punches Man #1 in the shoulder.
Man #1: “That’s ping.”
[via Will Cox via icann.Blog]
Holy crap! I was searching and searching for a struts WML taglib two nights ago and last night. Lo and behold, Matt Raible announced one this morning:
A Struts WML Tag Library has been posted to the struts-dev mailing list. It’s a “pre-release”, which means the project is probably not stable, but I’m guessing the technology and tags are.
Struts-wml taglib, ‘raw prerelease’ is available here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/struts-wml/
Here’s the release notes:
This is a fully functional ‘prerelease’ which includes source code, sample application, documentation, binary and libraries. It’s still somewhat unpolished (therefore raw prerelease). If you’re willing to hack arround with it a little bit, you’re welcome to download it. Please don’t forget to contribute your changes back to the project! [Full Post]
Now it’s your responsibility to get a WML project that you can implement this on!
Actually, I have a project up my sleeve that I wanted to use Struts+WML for, and I think this will do it.
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 14 seconds
Ack! Combining bleeding-edge with Java can give you a headache. Time to hunt down some .jars…