Powerpage: “The PowerPage has received word that Apple is prepping a quad-processor Xserve for announcement in the January-March 2005 time frame. We are working to confirm details but sources say that the the Quad Xserve will be powered by dual-core IBM 970 processors. More as we find out…” Source: http://www.powerpage.org/cgi-bin/WebObjects/powerpage.woa/wa/story?newsID=12539 See more about XServes at:...

Found this quote kinda late, but I still love it :) “If Darl McBride was in charge, he’d probably make marriage unconstitutional too, since clearly it de-emphasizes the commercial nature of normal human interaction, and probably is a major impediment to the commercial growth of prostitution.” – Linus Torvalds, December 5th 2003. P.S. Darl McBride...

Loved the Spring Web Flows: \ http://www.ervacon.com/products/springwebflow/article Here\’s another headache for me: I can not ditch Struts from Digi and just jump on Spring MVC and Flows. Too many lines of Digi modules code would have to be rewritten. But what if we manage to marry those two? Why not? We are not that concerned...

This was also posted at: http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=29140#144480 The lengthy discussion, at that thread, itself - shows that this topic is not a simple one and there are plenty who take one or another side. The liberals say: “it is a matter of choice and depands on what are your goals in a specific project” Is it,really?...

Just stating the obvious, here, but unfortunately it’s also something that many teams miss: Code Refactorings should be happening continously Refactoring cannot be something that is scheduled or aligned with the QA process – waiting to manually retest a system after each change. Refactoring should happen every day, lots of times per day. There is...

I am getting more and more inclined to think that an idea of successful, pure-J2EE architecture is like Communism - too good to be true. To implement a perfectly designed J2EE architecture (assuming it can be designed as such) a perfect imlementation team is needed. Do we ever get such? And if we do -...

The mailinator has been making my life on the Web more pleasant, for a long time, now. Here comes the second nice creature: http://bugmenot.com/, which I\‘ve learnt about from Doug\’s Blog. Thanks, Doug!

Nice article \ http://www.theserverside.com/articles/article.tss?l=RedirectAfterGet

Phewwwww \ http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1647198,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594

Windows Script Encoder from Redmond is distributed as an IP-protection tool. Yet, even on the MS site, it is clearly noted that the tool can only obfuscate a script from a “casual viewer”, not from a hacker. I would wonder - why create a tool like that, at all, then? But the Redmond-based company has...

I, personally, liked the PDF manipulation project: \ http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=27192

  “Aircraft in position. Requesting permission to fly” from the radio transmission of a flight captain with an air traffic controller.   Software projects are like the airplane flights. What users see is just the end-result of the work done by a group of professionals. Users may have a clue but do not really care...

I have been a big fan of Mailinator. Not only it helped me with the annoying sites that beg for registration and then bomb with spam but it was invaluable in the debugging of our system when I needed new email accounts to test functionality on production. \r \r From the news on their site...

If you want to style a button link to look like XML icon, you can use the following stylesheet <-- from style.css --> a.button:link { font-weight: bold; color: white; font-size: 10px; font-family: Verdana; background-color: #FF6600; border-left: 1px solid #FF9A57; border-top: 1px solid #FFC8A4; border-right: 1px solid #7D3302; border-bottom: 1px solid #3F1A01; padding: 2px 5px 1px...

Changed design. Hopefully - for the better :)