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Saturday, 27 July 2002

I've discovered Jakarta Commons today. I mean, I always knew it was there - but it's actually a repository of some really useful stuff. Latka - a web site testing tool, much like maxQ except with XML test files. Looks very useful. HTTP Client - you use this instead of java.net already don't you? Collections - just what I was looking for. Especially the ComparatorChain - very useful. Lang - duplicates a lot of the OSCore TextUtils stuff, but there's some other useful methods here. Lots of fun stuff to play with basically. 2:43:47 PM  comment []      August 2009: How Google beat Amazon and Ebay to the Semantic Web "26 Jul 2002. A work of fiction. A Semantic Web scenario. A short feature from a business magazine published in 2009. By Paul Ford. It's hard to believe Google - which is now the world's largest single online marketplace - came on the scene only a little more than 8 years ago, back in the days when Amazon and Ebay reigned supreme. So how did Google become the world's single largest marketplace?" A truly fascinating read - hard to categorise. Perhaps business-technology-fiction? 12:20:51 PM  comment []      JIRA Advocacy. JIRA:. "The brilliantly simple, incredibly powerful way to track and manage issues." Mike Cannon-Brookes writes that JIRA "was inspired (in large part) from Pyra." Very interesting. Will check it out right away... [evhead] Mike: Given the bollocks'ing that Ev is copping on InstaPundit, amongst other places, it would be an interesting thing to try and do a deal with Ev akin to the deal that you were thinking of cutting with Dave. Be good all round I suspect. [Brett Morgan's Insanity Weblog] Maybe I'm a little slow here - but I can't find the bollocks'ing anywhere on InstaPundit. Do you mean offer Blogger a free JIRA license? Interesting. 12:16:26 PM  comment []      Enterprise Instant Messaging? Trillian Pro Coming. Leaked versions of Trillian Pro 1.0 hint that the popular cross-network IM client will launch as a premium product for the enterprise market. [australia.internet.com] 12:06:58 PM  comment []      Eric Lafortune's ProGuard 1.1 is a GPL'd class file shrinker and obfuscator. Matthew Pekar's Pounder 0.91 is a GUI testing tool for Java. Developers can record scriptsthat are then run in JUnit. Java 1.4 is required. Pounder is released under the LGPL. [Cafe Au Lait] 12:01:20 PM  comment []