Tuesday, May 20, 2003

Visual FoxPro for Linux: A Violation of the EULA?. Recapping the latest round of Microsoft legal maneuvering--UPDATED. [Linux Journal] dennisRadio Encouragement  []     8:37:58 PM     ; IBM readies first Rational product rollout. Rapid development, modeling, testing are keys [InfoWorld: Top News] dennisRadio Encouragement  []     8:18:57 PM     ; WebEater 0.2 [freshmeat.net] dennisRadio Encouragement  []     8:11:23 PM     ; libxml++ 0.23 [freshmeat.net] dennisRadio Encouragement  []     6:27:18 PM     ; libTextCat 2.1 is a library with functions that implement the classification technique described in Cavnar & Trenkle, "N-Gram-Based Text Categorization". It was primarily developed for language guessing, a task on which it is known to perform with near- perfect accuracy. [freshmeat.net] dennisRadio Encouragement  []     6:23:57 PM     ; OpenOffice2Text 0.3 [freshmeat.net] dennisRadio Encouragement  []     6:21:17 PM     ; vestaweb 2 [freshmeat.net] dennisRadio Encouragement  []     4:12:00 PM     ; Appropriate use of J2EE/EJB. An oft-heard complaint, echoed recently by Annrai O'Toole, is that J2EE app servers are oversold: The J2EE vendors have done a fantastic job of convincing the world that you can't run a line of Java unless it runs inside a J2EE container. This is just pure bunkum. I like his formulation that "J2EE is the Java equivalent of a mainframe." We also have, of course, in COM+, the Windows version of the same idea, which in its earlier MTS incarnation predated J2EE. I also notice that the real mainframes haven't gone away. With respect to the middleware services for which the J2EE server is best known -- "TP-heavy" transaction management, connection and object pooling, role-based security, and declarative control of these aspects -- the question of when and why this stuff is or isn't overkill seems never to go away. ... [Jon's Radio] dennisRadio Encouragement  []     1:59:48 PM     ; Cantus 1.07-1 (Stable) [freshmeat.net] dennisRadio Encouragement  []     1:58:37 PM     ; py_ecc 1.1 [freshmeat.net] dennisRadio Encouragement  []     1:57:49 PM     ; Botan 1.2.3 (Stable) [freshmeat.net] dennisRadio Encouragement  []     1:56:57 PM     ;

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