June 2003 Archives

Compose yourself re-inforces my desire to explore using Ruby as a build tool. Pipes and inheritance.

Foundations for component and service models and Principles of Loosely Coupled API's indirectly discuss some of the main principles behind CarrierWave.

NewsMonster [hellblazer]

Fox Toolkit is a platform independent GUI library with Ruby and Python bindings.

Computational Diversity, Practice and a Passion for Applications [lambda]

Boingo Wireless offers free Wi-Fi sniffer software, and the opportunity to offer your own revenue generating "Hot spot".

TrackStudio is a defect and issue management system. Free for small projects. Curious about the customizable workflow, a major win if it is flexible enough.

Managing IT As An Investment

JGoodies provides tools for Java Swing development. Worth a deeper look.

Open Source POS

JXTA Protocols

Luminaries Debate Issues, Opportunities

File Vault - Places a number of user selected files in a single self extracting / self decrypting executable file. Freeware. Windows only.

The Layers Principle: Internet Architecture and the Law

Aqua Data Studio - Free for personal use, and darn cheap for commercial.

Distributed Internet Backup System - Written in python

MP3Gain

FireStorm - Looks like a bottom up O/R tool. Might be a nice addition to CarrierWave.

The Open Source Paradigm Shift [intertwingly]

ONJava.com: JDO or CMP?

JLense Application Framework - JLense is a plugin-based application development framework for developing Java, Swing-based,'business' applications.

ONJava.com: Nukes: the Open Source Java CMS - ... we have one of the most interesting study cases of J2EE versus PHP technology. Marrying J2EE and PostNuke gave us a best of both worlds approach.

JBoss part 1 - A modern day plague - Today I'm going to go after an incredibly easy big fat target, JBoss! Love it or hate it, JBoss is rubbish either way.

blogs suck