Thursday October 10, 2002

Castor help offered to Jason Carreira. I once built a gui for generating mapping files, perhaps it'll be of use to you. Notice the disclaimer on this page though. I've also built up some more Castor experience working on Roller, so I'm ready to offer assistance should you want it. ( Oct 10 2002, 08:12:29 PM ) Technology Permalink
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Oh Jason, what have you done!
Ya know, I almost offered to set my wife up with a blog. She didn't seem all that interested though, and I internally questioned the advisability of doing such a thing. Well, Jason's wife has a blog now, and so now I know that I envy Jason his "nooners". ( Oct 10 2002, 01:21:57 PM ) News Permalink
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Friday October 04, 2002

A JDBC Cache, what's that? Well, it apparently caches the ResultSets of queries. Hmmm, interesting, might be some fun to play with. Combine this other sorts of caching and you might get an interesting overlap of concerns such that the real work is performed only infrequently. Of course, this might also get messy.... ( Oct 04 2002, 02:56:05 PM ) Technology Permalink
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Thursday October 03, 2002

Now here's a neat idea

Replicating news feeds...

Does anyone know of a means by which I can get my radio rss feeds emailed to me, or externally replicated? Radio is installed at home, and I can post to it via email (like now) but I'm starting to rely on my news aggregation more and more, and it takes a good hour every evening to go through it. I've gotten so used to using server-side apps. that the restrictions of a thick client are something of a shock to the system. Roll on the day I can afford a personal CoLo server (or my own leased line)! [Pushing the envelope]

I'd like something like this too. I'd like to replicate my news feed to my Zaurus in a HTML format that looks nice on a small screen, so I can surf my blog news on the way into the office. What'd be really cool if I could delete stuff I've read on my Zaurus and to sync it with my laptop, so I don't have to double-delete stuff when I've read it.[James Strachan]

I don't know enough about RSS or the state of readers/aggregators out there now, but is this something that we could plan for the Roller RSS aggregator (we do plan on such a beast, don't we?) ? ( Oct 03 2002, 08:12:29 PM ) Technology Permalink
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Fascinating Stuff
Ara, James Strachan, Jon (tirsen.com) and Rickard have been discussing some really neat stuff. Today on the Jakarta-Commons list another interesting thread began (look for "[lang] Proposal for *NEXT* version").
Maybe its just the sinus headache speaking, but I see some synergy here! ( Oct 03 2002, 03:23:21 PM ) Technology Permalink
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For further reading on today's posts:

jutopia : FascinatingStuff

Wednesday October 02, 2002

Weblogic NT Realm - Help! I've been trying for a week to get Weblogic 6.1 to authenticate against its NTRealm. I've finally got it to present the login form, but I *won't* login. Anyone with practical experience, I plead for your assistance! llavandowska at ecmc dot org ( Oct 02 2002, 08:17:16 PM ) Technology Permalink
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Rollin' on
It's been quite some time since I last posted, mostly 'cause of the new job (it's tiring to be the new guy). Good progress has been made on Roller, hoping for a release this weekend. ( Oct 02 2002, 08:13:28 PM ) Roller Permalink
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Monday September 23, 2002

Castor Oil A very lloonngg time ago I wrote a Swing app for specifying the mapping file for Castor.org, and I called it "Castor Oil", as in "makes Castor slick" or some other clever play on words. Today I received this email:

Our firm is successfully operating in the market of rock salt, vacuum salt, sodium nitrate, citric acid, packing staff, foodstaff, etc. Recently we are trying to expand our assortment. One of our new fields will include Nuts. So we are very interested in your production. Especially at the moment we are interested in following positions: We interested to buy from you castor oil 700 T per month on cif Black seanovorosijsk (up to 645 US$ per T) We would be very appreciate to receive the catalogue or trade list (with custom prices, if it is possible) of your assortment with the possible prices (conditions FOB or FCA). Usually our company imports big quantities of products.

I don't know if I should consider this spam or not?! But I wish I had some real castor oil to sell. ( Sep 23 2002, 06:53:00 PM ) News Permalink
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