Monday, 1 July 2002

Blogspot RSS feeds cool, Mark Baker started a blog, welcome Mark. [Simon Fell] Why are all the blogspot blogs rss deprived? Erk :P 3:47:02 PM

IntelliJ JADE Open Framework RAD tool for J2EE Released - JADE looks very interesting, not least because of the IDEA integration. But something about building 'data connectors' in JSP via custom tags seems very ugly to me. I'll have to look closer. [rebelutionary] I am starting to get the feeling that I am going to have to have a go with IntelliJ. Let us see how many Java editors one thinkpad can have installed ... (yes, I even have xemacs installed somewhere :) 2:01:37 PM

If only it were Easy Japanesy transparent IDE encryptor. Just in case you ever need a transparent IDE encryptor... [Hack the Planet] I sometimes wish I could read Japanese. 1:37:28 PM

TMBG's New Album: "No!". (2002-07-01 01:58) [Swhack Weblog] Way cool. Play with flash animations while listening to TMBG! 1:33:46 PM

Music industry swamps swap networks with phony files - very tricky, but I can't imagine that a technological solution to stop this 'spoofing' is very hard. Even if it's a collaborative filtering system where users indicate that they have been spoofed by a particular user. [rebelutionary] I was going to write a rant on the upcoming requirement of using various AI techniques to predict what users like/dislike, but I don't think i need to. The above shows an obvious opportunity for an AI to learn a users likes and dislikes. Now, the real question is, what kind of AI can do this? My thinking is leaning towards recurrent neural nets. Should push this idea around and see if it flies. Hmmm. 1:26:12 PM

SEDA is an event-driven architecture for highly scalable Internet servers (ie a web server or a mail server). The performance graphs (vs thread pooling and process forking) are quite amazing. Going to have to read the paper to find out more of the details. [via james strachan] [rebelutionary] This is a paper I am going to have to read. I can see that the J2EE approach of just making sure that every business object can only be in use by a single thread is going to hit a scalability wall. Sooner rather than later I fear. We have implemented a number of applications using Sandstorm, including Haboob, a high-performance Web server that outperforms both Apache and Flash (which are implemented in C) on a SPECWeb99-like benchmark. Admittedly, Apache is not really built for speed. But having a java app beat a c app sure makes for interesting headlines. Reality is, for most network apps, raw cpu isn't the bottle neck. It is a question of latency between dealing with network IO events. This is going to get interesting. 1:19:22 PM

Added Gerhard, Brett and Julian to the growing list of Java and J2EE Weblogs - nice to meet you all. Keep sending them in guys, we're up to 18 now! [rebelutionary] Gerhard - RSS subscribed. Julian - where is your rss feed dude? :) 1:13:45 PM

Woman unhappy with her assigned license plate: 'BLO 4 SX'. [FARK] ROTFL! [Sam Gentile's Radio Weblog] Where, oh where, can you go with a number plate like that? Reminds me of a few usernames that were automatically created for users back at UTS. Hooboy. :) 12:49:17 PM

"What drugs have not destroyed, the war on them has". David Simon, creator of the searing new HBO series "The Wire," on why even the best cop shows are phony and our anti-drug mania amounts to a permanent war against the underclass. [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] I often wonder if, one day in the far future, we may get drug poligy that views drug addiction as a medical condition, as opposed to a criminal condition. Tis very sad watching otherwise logical people get so screwed up on this emotional topic. 12:32:09 PM

Wayback Cinema. If done right, this could be used to bring some of the closed independants back to life, eg the Valhalla in Glebe. Holy shit - did Brett just mention the Valhalla? That's seriously 100 metres from where I'm sitting right now at home (in Glebe - a cool, non-pretentious yet cosmopolitan, inner city, suburb of Sydney). It's a small world. [rebelutionary] Y'know, it aint everyday you get to spook someone out using merely a well placed weblog entry ;) 12:12:29 PM

Brett was looking for libraries to make a Java spider - and the ones he mentioned were OK - but WebSphinx is the best. (Granted it's Java 1.1 old - but updating it and turning it into a new OSS project is a good idea for someone out there) [rebelutionary] I was about to begin writing a web spider using Apache Commons HTTPClient and W3C's JTidy. Oh bugger, I better go dig into WebSphinx and see if it is better. I hate the web ;) 12:11:18 PM

Mozilla opens up Microsoft's closed Outlook PST format. Tim O'Reilly has written his annual braindump in preparation for the Open Source Convention. His essays are always thoughtful. This time, I was struck by one particular comment: ... [Jon's Radio] A good place to look when I need to read outlook files. Munch munch. 11:57:51 AM

"Wolfenstein 5k" [Daypop Top 40] That is HellaWrong. :) 10:53:55 AM

Y'know, eclipse could really do to go through their use cases. I keep finding things that should be easily accomplished have no apparent way of being done - like adding a jar to a new java project. TODO: Check I have the latest Eclipse release d/l'ing 2.0 release, Get an eclipse bugtracker account, and log usability bugs, Check I have the latest NetBeans release d/l'ing 3.3.2 release, Download a dhcp server for either win32 or cygwin (no, don't ask) 8:50:10 AM

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