I’m playing with Apache Geronimo and the Eclipse plugin, only to find out that all of the projects that I’m toying with are giving me validation problems with web.xml because IBM’s DeveloperWorks site is down for maintenance and this file can’t be accessed.
Monthly Archives: April 2006
Tearing down your heroes
4/30/2006 – 11:47 am
I’ve had a fascination with U2 for a billion years. They’re my favorite band and they’re great people. I won’t go into more detail on this right now, because there’s a rather nasty picture that I just noticed on the U2 site. It shows Bono and U2 manager Paul McGuinness standing together holding a petition [...]
NetBeans vs Eclipse redux
4/30/2006 – 7:45 am
I ditched NetBeans in favor of Eclipse around 3 years ago. Reading stuff like this makes me wonder if I have to re-evaluate that decision.
Apple's Take-back/Recycling Program
4/29/2006 – 2:24 pm
As reported elsewhere (Slashdot, CNN, Digg, Business Week, etc.), Apple recently started an “expansion” of their computer take-back and recycling programs. They patted themselves on the back with a nice little press release: “Apple is committed to supporting our customers and protecting the environment throughout the entire product life cycle, from purchase through to retirement,â€? [...]
Hello, Indonesia
4/20/2006 – 10:21 pm
Indonesia is the world’s fourth most populous country. That came as a surprise to me, since it’s a place that I rarely think about. (I guess it will be less of a surprise the next time that I don’t think about it.)
Yochai Benkler at HLS
4/19/2006 – 12:08 pm
John provides a good summary of Yochai Benkler’s interesting and enjoyable talk at HLS yesterday. It was a 30 minute distillation of his new book, The Wealth of Networks. One slide in particular jumped out to me during the presentation. It showed a micro-view of IBM’s revenue breakdown comparing Linux-related activities and traditional IP royalties [...]
Quote du jour
4/18/2006 – 1:32 pm
How cute: “I can now go into the unix program on the apache server and customize the Metalib program so it works for our library. Wow! It feels great.” I bet it does feel great! But if this quote from O’Reilly’s marketing materials is not enough to completely destroy the credibility of their Learning Courses, [...]
Harvard Blogs vs. Bloglines, Part 2
4/11/2006 – 4:25 pm
Suddenly, all the Harvard blogs start displaying content again in Bloglines (Bloglines hasn’t been displaying any content from Harvard blogs since late February). I tried Rojo and Google Reader. If you like Ajax and little sliding boxes on your web pages, you’ll love them. I prefer interfaces that work. And despite Bloglines’ quirkiness, I still [...]