If you haven't seen them yet, go check out the winners of this year's Club Mayan salsa competition [Club Mayan]. I think this years dancers are simply amazing. The bar has been raised far above what it has been in past years. 5:53:43 PM    comment []  

I have become more and more frustrated with the current state of web application development in Java. Struts was a step up, but is still far from the right path. What is needed is a web application framework that abstracts HTTP from the process of building an application and allows all presentation to be in HTML and all logic to be in Java. I thought about building my own framework and came up with some plans for what I thought would be an ideal scenario. However, like most of my good ideas, someone else has already done it. Tapestry is part of the Apache Jakarta project and represents a very sensible approach to web application development [Tapestry]. 12:21:19 PM    comment []  

The announcement of Ximian Desktop 2 is receiving quite a bit of buzz [CNET][LinuxWorld]. So far, the press is very positive. Any improvements to the Linux desktop can only be a good thing. The interesting thing about Ximian is that it isn't a Linux distribution in itself, but simply a desktop system that runs on top of any number of Linux flavors. That's a very different, and I think smart, approach than that taken by RedHat and others. I wanted to check to see if Ximian Desktop will run on Debian, but as of this post, the Ximian website was down. Probably due to the Slashdot effect. 11:16:37 AM    comment []  

Jon Udell thinks that aspects (AOP) will save the day when it comes to object persistance. I'll see it when I believe it <grin/> [InfoWorld]. 10:56:02 AM    comment []  

AOL wasn't happy about the release of the WASTE sharing software that came out of their own doors and are trying to stop its distribution. This situation echoes back to the Gnutella release a couple of years ago. It's funny that those guys at Nullsoft are able to get away with these shinanigans without getting fired [New York Times]. 10:51:38 AM    comment []  

Amazon is talking with Apple for rights to distribute the iTunes service to their customers [New York Post]. 10:45:33 AM    comment []