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Friday, 7 June 2002

Brunching Shuttlecocks: The Weblog FAQK Gosh Jesus no! Weblogs cover a wide range of topics, such as other weblogs, what the mainstream media are saying about weblogging, new weblogs, advances in weblog publishing, books about weblogging, the future of weblogging, and that one naked guy painted up like Spider-Man. 3:51:28 PM

Patrick Lightbody When I downloaded WAS 4.0 and tried installing, I was almost immediately shocked to death by the sheer complexity of the thign. I am of the opinion that app servers should be simple, small devices that act purely as enablers. Even WebLogic is pretty straight forward. I found WebSphere and HPAS (which may not live much longer) to be bloated. In WebSphere's defence, it's not that easy to "simply enable" some things. WAS has very good support for clustering/load-balancing/failover, distributed security, distributed administration and the like Some of WebSphere's bloat (and some of its stranger mannerisms) from its relationship with Component Broker. IBM built their J2EE infrastructure around their CORBA ORB. This makes sense, because a lot of EJB services (by design) map onto their CORBA counterparts. On the other hand, it makes the product somewhat heavy going, and perhaps a trifle schizophrenic at times. 3:01:59 PM

Triangulation in action. Over the last few hours I've seen three or four comments from Mac OS X users saying that Silk is a good thing. Now I thought I should pass that along.  [Scripting News] Silk enables anti-aliased text in Carbon apps under MacOS X 10.1.5, without the application having to support it deliberately. I just installed it, and although I have a love/hate relationship with anti-aliased text, it still looks pretty sweet in Mozilla. 8:02:03 AM