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SwiXAT - The Swing XML Authoring Tool

I am working on a little project currently that requires a Java GUI of some kind - Swing or SWT, I don't care particularly. Since I just recently got into Eclipse plugin-in/RCP development, I figured...

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Cool Down Your MacBook Pro - Now!

James Duncan Davidson blogged about cooling down a MacBook Pro, specifically the smcFanControl which is a nice piece of software. But in a comment on that blog entry, someone else pointed out Fan...

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ApacheCon U.S. 2006

On Friday night I returned from Austin, TX, the location for ApacheCon US 2006. Though I had a good time, this was my third straight week of travel and I was/am still completely exhausted. So much so,...

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Krugle - The Search Engine for Developers

BTW, if you haven't already seen it, you need to check out Krugle, a much more effective search engine for source code. It also features many other small features that can stand to dramatically...

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Apple Recycling Program

Below is an email I received from Apple today about its recycling program:

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SOA on a Stick

At LogicBlaze, we've kicked around the idea of offering a hardware appliance called LogicBlades on which the FUSE server would be installed on blade servers. This would provide the features of FUSE in...

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Professional Apache Geronimo is Available

After starting this book one year ago and rewriting chapters three times, it looks like Professional Apache Geronimo is finally for sale - yay! We started writing this book before Geronimo 1.0 was...

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Simon Phipps' Beaver Photos at the Colorado Software Summit

I'm at the Colorado Software Summit listening to Simon Phipps talk about software freedom. Simon likes to show the photographs he's taken over the years throughout his travels and says he enjoys...

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Oracle Takes a Shot Across the Bow of RedHat

Oracle announced this week that it is attempting to eat from the market created by RedHat by distributing it's own version of Oracle's Unbreakable Linux which is actually based on RedHat Enterprise...

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Integrating Apache ActiveMQ with JBoss

Do you need robust and scalable Java messaging within JBoss? If so, then you should consider embedding Apache ActiveMQ in JBoss and there's a guide on the LogicBlaze DevZone that explains how to do...

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Kinkless GTD Influence OmniFocus

After checking out the latest info on Kinkless GTD (kGTD), my Getting Things Done (GTD) tool of choice because it's built on top of OmniOutliner, it seems that plans are afoot for a new product from...

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Two Geronimo Books Are Better Than One!

I just took at look through Amazon today and notice that it's now pairing my Geronimo book with my friend Aaron Mulder's Geronimo book: This is a very cool idea because Aaron's book is much more...

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Dark Side of the Rainbow

It occurred to me today that I haven't blogged about this yet. If you're a Pink Floyd fan, you will enjoy this. Dark Side of the Moon + The Wizard of Oz = Dark Side of the Rainbow - crazy. Another...

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Five New GMail Features

Being that I subscribe to somewhere around 40 mailing lists, Google has added a feature that I have needed for a long time: Embarassment-reducing new message notifications. For more information, see...

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GMail Out of Commission

Following close on the heels of my intrigue with new GMail features over the weekend comes a GMail outage. In the past I've had GMail flake out on a few HTTP requests here and there and I've even...

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Maven Web Application Archetypes Now Available

maven A big thanks to Jan for making available the Maven Webapp Archetypes! She included archetypes for ActiveMQ, DOJO, DWR, JSF, SiteMesh, Spring, Struts, Tapestry and Webwork all available for...

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BPEL Primer

Brenda Michelson has made available an awesome BPEL Primer from her research into the WS-BPEL technology. Brenda has a wonderful knack for cutting through a complex spec and applying business meaning...

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ObjectWeb Signs Partnership With JBoss???

After RedHat acquired JBoss and therefore decided to no longer use JOnAS, I now see from Francois' blog that Bull has signed a partnership with JBoss. I definitely am aware that smart business...

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ObjectWeb Renaming Contest

It seems that the ObjectWeb is remaking itself to prepare for fully independent status and seeking a new name via a contest. If you care to submit an entry, you better hurry as there are less than two...

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SketchUp Events in Boulder Area

If you are interested in learning about 3D modeling without a hugely expensive and complex product, I highly encourage you to check out SketchUp. Compared to back when I did 3D modeling and rendering,...

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Javapolis 2006, Antwerp, Belgium

I flew to Antwerp, Belgium this week to speak at Javapolis 2006. Unfortunately I only spent about 52 hours on the ground! I have vowed to never travel to the EU like this ever again. Antwerp is a very...

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iPhone - iWantOne

Apple just announced the iPhone today and it sounds amazing. It's a device that runs a full MacOS X operating system with iPod capabilities, wifi capabilities, phone capabilities, iPhoto capabilities,...

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Google Surpasses IBM in Valuation

I cannot remember where I came across this story earlier this week but it seems that Google has now surpassed IBM in its valuation as a direct result in the rise in profits since 2005. Considering the...

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Truly Amazing Multi-Touch Demo

While visiting a client this week, one of the team pointed out some amazing demos by Jeff Han, a research scientist for NYU's Department of Computer Science, from early 2006 at the TED Conference. One...

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Apache ActiveMQ Is Now a Top Level ASF Project

Yay! Apache ActiveMQ has graduated from the Apache Incubator! After a lot of hard work by the ActiveMQ community, it's now a top level project at the ASF. If you're not aware, ActiveMQ is a JMS 1.1...

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Incubus Show Last Night

Raible and saw Incubus last night at the Fillmore in Denver, CO for the Light Grenades tour and it was a really great show! The music was awesome, Incubus is a very good live band. In fact, most of the...

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MacOS X No AirPort Hardware Found

Last night I was working away on my MacBook Core Duo and suddenly the network connection dropped. After fiddling with the networking on the MacBook and then resetting the WAP, I still couldn't grab a...

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JBI and SCA Are Complimentary!

For the past 16 months I've been saying that JBI and SCA are complimentary technologies and finally someone has been quoted as saying the same thing! It was announced this week that SCA/SDO are being...

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The Ironic Complexity of the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)

I tend to deal with WS-*/SOAP quite a lot these days in the work I do for clients and it has always struck me that the whole WS-* world seems to have gone so spec-crazy (crikey!), I'll call it...

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Is Google Too Powerful?

There's a very interesting article over at BusinessWeek.com titled Is Google Too Powerful? I've read many articles and blog entries debating Google's power and evilness indicator (oh, there's an idea...

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The Apache Stein Stein

I just stumbled upon this and had to blog about it. The Apache Stein Stein LOL!!! My buddy Greg's photo on a beer stein - how incredibly cheesy is that?! Fitz and Fred, if you guys haven't seen this...

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Dropped iPod

Today I was working away at Starbucks and I shifted in my chair and knocked my iPod off the table and onto the hard tile floor. I picked it up only to see it frozen in the play state and I couldn't...

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LogicBlaze Acquired by IONA Technologies

As seen in many places by now, last week LogicBlaze was acquired by IONA Technologies. Included as part of the deal are nine people from LogicBlaze, all of which were critical in building the company...

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MacBook Tablet

I had read some speculation previously that MacBook tablets may be on the way and about a month or so ago on a business trip I read a MacWorld article about the ModBook. It seems that Other World...

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Customizable Google Maps

Google's latest maps tricks are embodied in MyMaps. I've been waiting for these as long as Google Maps has been available. You can place pins, draw lines, draw shapes and save them. What's even cooler...

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Alternative UIs for Digg

Though I'm not a big fan of Digg, there are some pretty cool alternative UIs for Digg. I immediately start to think about implementing UIs like this for large messaging environments using Apache...

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Google Calendar in Thunderbird

Ever since Google Calendar was released, I've been in search of a way to integrate it with Mozilla Thunderbird or Apple iCal to allow birectional updates. Right away I was able to subscribe to my...

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Cafe Wifi Use From Car != Legal

Has the world gone completely mad?! Entering a cafe to use its free wireless is OK, even if you don't buy anything. But if you sit in your car to use the free wireless without entering the cafe, you...

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Got Joost?

Would you like a free Joost invite courtesy of TechCrunch? Get on it. I know that invites have been handed out for a few months now, but I've not been very interested until now. Though I'm not a big...

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If Java Didn't Exist, Would .NET?

Today Colm Smyth blogged about BEA attacking Sun using some lopsided logic. While the blog entry itself is not that interesting to me, what *is* interesting is the question he posed at the end: 'If...

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Google Apps Mail Hosting Down

For about the last hour I have been unable to log in to my mail account in Google Apps due to a 502 error. I guess this is why it's still in beta :-(

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OSS Market to Reach US$5.8 Billion by 2011

IDC has published a report stating that significant demand for standalone open source software will cause the market to grow by 26% to reach US$5.8 billion by 2011 - that's a big number! No wonder the...

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Microsoft Threatens Most Valuable Professional

Microsoft: Yes, we like you... a lot! Keep up the great work! <award assigned> Developer: Thanks Microsoft: Now we don't like you Developer: Huh? Microsoft: Uhhhh, yeah, see this detail and this...

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Google Converting Hybrid Vehicles to Plug-ins

When faced with the sprawling style of development that the United States has always enjoyed, we all seem to have had a big wake up call in recent years WRT to our dependence on natural resources,...

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ServiceMix 3.1.1 Released

ServiceMix 3.1.1 has officially been released. For more info, see the release notes.

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Prince is Devaluing Music!?!?!?!

Anyone who knows me well knows that I'm a big music fan, especially live music but I'm certainly not a fan of corporate side of the music biz. Well it seems to me that the vast majority of music...

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Comparing Wireless Broadband Connectivity: T-Mobile vs. at&t vs. Verizon

I do not go into an office every day to work. I work remote and I have for almost three years. I prefer it compared to a time-wasting commute every day. There are many other advantages to this...

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Hey Apple, What is Happening With Java for MacOS X?

As much of a huge Apple fan I am and have been since 1990 when I discovered a Macintosh, let's just say I am less than thrilled about the state of Java for MacOS X. After stagnating for nearly a year,...

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MacOS X 10.4.10 Updates Break PPC Apps

Over the weekend I was under a deadline to revise a chapter for the Beginning Spring 2 book. I had been working on Saturday for over 12 hours and after installing the latest software updates for MacOS...

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As Walter and Donald Would Say...

... Bodhisattva Would you take me by the hand Can you show me The shine of your Japan The sparkle of your China Can you show me ... I'll see you on the other side

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