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Monday, 2 September 2002 |
From the "when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail" dept, I wrote a Wasabi component that embeds a HTTP/SOAP server into Winamp3, so I can find out what its playing from Radio! [Simon Fell]
That is so wrong, it's right. Now all you need to do is hack in a Jabber client so you can control whats playing remotely.... ;)
7:27:44 PM 
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I just noticed that Sysdeo's Eclipse Tomcat Plugin has moved up to release 2.01. I was previously using version 0.99. Eggads.
1:53:36 PM
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Game developers rising in the East. Industry veterans say the rising stars of game development are more likely to come from Central and Eastern European countries than from Western Europe or the United States. [CNET News.com]
heh
12:29:17 PM
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Eclipse 2.0.1 Released!. It is now available on the Eclipse
download page at www.eclipse.org. I received a reply from the eclipse-dev mailing list today with some hints for OS X - noticed that 2.0.1 was out, and updated all my machines (Win/Linux/OSX) with ease. For Jaguar, You can find the latest "inofficial" build here. It worked great for me. If you already have 2.0 installed, you should be able to update your installation via the Update Manager. [Raible Designs · v2.0]
Downloading now.
12:00:31 PM
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Profoundly Correct: Jon Udells Observations on ACL Scaling. Profoundly Correct: Jon Udell's Observations on ACL Scaling
This either makes sense to you or doesn't. If it doesn't then don't worry about it. If it does then think how to address it (and this really only matters to developers that deal with security; unfortunately it matters (a lot) to me).
On the subject of security, I aired my concerns (shared by acquaintances at Baltimore Technologies) that ACLs don't scale. Even if we can layer a permissions matrix on top of web services, the combinatorial explosion of that matrix will create complexity that nobody can understand or manage. The example here is from Zope, but we've all done this -- and it's unthinkable to do it for thousands or millions of rows and columns.
http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2002/08/28.html#a389 [The FuzzyBlog!]
Hmmmm. Something in me tells me this extends further than it first appears to.
11:02:59 AM
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myRSS "enables anyone to build custom RSS channels for virtually any news site they desire." [Scripting News]
Interesting business model.
10:25:46 AM
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SJ Mercury: AOL capitulates, gives up struggle for `open access'. Dan Gillmor. The cable and phone giants say they won't invest in upgrading their data networks and lines if they can't assert considerable control over what flows up and down those lines. That's their argument against open access. If they prevail we'll end up with only a handful of Internet service providers that will remain at the not-so-tender mercies of the conglomerates that own the data pipes. [Tomalak's Realm]
This is sad. I think this is going to be the death knell for innovation in the Internet sphere for America. The new wave of change will have to come from Asia. I wonder how much nose bloodying it is going to take before people realise the true loss here
10:23:21 AM
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"We modeled the [unmanned aerial vehicle's] controller after the PlayStation 2, because that's what these 18- and 19-year old Marine have been playing pretty much all their lives. If a Marine can use Microsoft Word, he can get this plane to fly." -- Major John Cane, Marine Corps Airfighting Lab, as quoted in the July 2002 Communications of the ACM [Larry O'Brien's Radio Weblog]
And if they do their development right, they can use PS2's as training devices ...
10:18:16 AM
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Browsing referers log for my blog has been recently a source of a few surprises in the form of cool web sites. The latest one is Organica. They crawl blogs and do stats e.g. about links between blogs. There's a similar thing on BlogDex. A great way to find out who reads and links to your blog. [Krzysztof Kowalczyk's Weblog]
Pretty funky. My Organica page is here.
9:59:43 AM
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© Copyright 2002 Brett Morgan.
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