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What can you do about your impact on global warming? Lots of things. Drive less. Use less electricity. Buy less stuff. And one of the most effective options is available right here, right now. With just a few clicks, you can calculate and offset your carb
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The boom of the 1990s boosted trust in business; the 2001 terrorist attacks boosted trust in government. But CEOs and politicians abused these gifts with scandals and incompetence
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Mark Cuban has posted a fascinating (possibly not 100% accurate) glimpse into the behind-the-scenes deal-making between Google and YouTube.
Monthly Archives: October 2006
Daily del.icio.us for Oct 30, 2006
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In this interview with InfoQ.com on release day last Thursday, Keith discusses the Spring Web Flow 1.0 feature set and 1.1 roadmap, as well as the history of the project. You’ll gain insight into how the project started and what were some of the key chall
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The process of converting an existing physical machine to virtual for running under VMware can be convoluted, tedious, and fraught with peril. The free (for now, at least) VMware Converter 3.0, now in beta, greatly s
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OWASP is happy to announce the first release of OWASP Pantera – Web Assessment Studio. Pantera is a mix between a pentest proxy, an application scanner, and an intelligent analysis framework. Pantera’s goal is to leave the analysis and automatic (rep
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From Social Bookmarking Sites, to Real Estate sites, this list has only the best Web 2.0 Sites available today
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Berners-Lee hopes to establish a new working group that will focus on revising and improving the HTML standard while working to bridge the gap between HTML and XHTML
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Ubuntu Edgy Upgrade Common Problems With solutions
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For our 15-minute challenge, we will backup a MySQL 5.0 database on Linux. We will only use freely downloadable open source software for the solution.
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This software never crashes. It never needs to be re-booted. This software is bug-free. It is perfect, as perfect as human beings have achieved. Consider these stats : the last three versions of the program — each 420,000 lines long-had just one error ea
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All things have an interface. Shaping interfaces is shaping the character of things. The brand is what transports the character of things.
Save Baby Gavin
I apologize as this is a little off-topic for this blog but I wanted to bring as much attention as I could to the Save Baby Gavin website and blog. My wife's cousin Jill has a beautiful little boy named Gavin. Gavin was born on February 23, 2006 with end-stage renal failure, or congenital kidney failure. Gavin was born with only 10-15% function in one of his kidneys, and 0% function in the other. He was admitted to Children's hospital of Wisconsin immediately after his birth and started on peritoneal dialysis. Peritoneal dialysis means that he is hooked up to a machine at home every night for 10 hours to “clean out” his blood. Without a kidney transplant, Gavin will not survive.
We are launching an initial fundraising campaign to help Gavin's family with costs not covered by private insurance. Our goal is to raise $100,000 for Gavin's account, which is managed by the Children's Organ Transplant Association (COTA). COTA is a national, nonprofit 501©3 charity dedicated to helping families raise funds for transplant-related expenses.
Please visit the Save Baby Gavin site and donate anything you can. If you can, please blog about this and link to Gavin’s site to get a wider distribution of this. Thank you.
Daily del.icio.us for Oct 23, 2006
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How do you make money off all that info bloggers provide? Collective Intellect has a goal: Make bloggers work for The Man.
Daily del.icio.us for Oct 22, 2006
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jets3t is a Java toolkit for the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). Building on the Java library provided by Amazon, the toolkit aims to simplify interaction with S3 while providing powerful additional features.
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Just a quick post to report that I’ve uploaded the two presentations of the From J2EE to Java EE Tour in my website.
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The project provides what is essentially a complete RSS and Atom development kit, which includes feed parsers, generators, blog client libraries, an Atom protocol implementation, a set of ten useful blogapps, and an easy-to-install blog and wiki server.
Daily del.icio.us for Oct 21, 2006
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Pieter Humphrey shows off some of the new features in Workshop for WebLogic 9.2.1 via this screencast in the visual Web service design view. Looks pretty awesome
OpenDNS Rocks
I first discovered OpenDNS on Chris Pirillio's blog – OpenDNS is a free service that is designed to make your Internet browsing faster, safer and smarter. And guess what - it does that. OpenDNS is essentially a set of massive distributed DNS caches that allow faster name resolution and yet obey the TTL rules for each domain. They have a very fast geographically distributed network of DNS caches that allow for blazingly fast lookup times which allows for faster connections to those sites. The traditional ISP DNS lookup connects to one of the root name servers which in turn send you to the name server for the top-level domain which will then probably get you to the name-server that is hosting the DNS entry for the site you are trying to connect to. OpenDNS skips all of that and return the IP address of the site you are attempting a connection two in a single request.
The safer surfing part comes into play with the phishing filter built into OpenDNS. OpenDNS intercepts connections against known phishing sites, based on network analysis and feeds from other network operators including their new venture PhishTank. PhishTank is a community anti-phishing Web site where anyone can go to submit suspected phishes, track the status of their submissions and help verify others submissions.
The smarter bit comes in the typo-correction feature of OpenDNS. So if you're going to google.com and misspell Google, OpenDNS first attempts to correct the typo and get you to the right site instead of the squatter sites that are just waiting for that misspelling to land you on their site.
I have been using OpenDNS for months now since I first read Chris's blog entry about OpenDNS and have been extremely happy with the free service. Can't beat the price – I can't really tell if my surfing is any faster but cognitively I know it is and that makes me happy. 🙂
Another thing that really stands out about OpenDNS is the service - I've had two occasions where I've contacted support to check on some DNS changes I made to move my domains from one hosting vendor to another and I got an almost immediate response both times. John Roberts, who is the VP of Product Development responded back in minutes to my query on both occasions and helped me by force clearing the cached entries for my domain.
Anyone and everyone can start using OpenDNS to surf smarter, faster and safer. Check out their Getting Started page for more information on how to change your router or computer DNS settings to start using OpenDNS.
Daily del.icio.us for Oct 16, 2006
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GWT Designer is a GUI creator that supports GWT. Use GWT Designer’s visual tools and wizards, and Java code will be generated for you. You don’t need to write any lines of Java code, but you can fully edit the resulting Java if you wish.
Daily del.icio.us for Oct 14, 2006
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Scand has announced the release of dhtmlxGrid v.1.1, JavaScript grid component which brings Excel-like functionality on the web. Besides Ajax support, rich cell editing capabilities and client-side sorting presented in previous version, dhtmlxGrid v1.1 de
Daily del.icio.us for Oct 13, 2006
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Google and BEA Systems are in talks about partnering on a new initiative that will let organizations create mashups between enterprise portals and applications such as Google Maps.
Vinny Carpenter's blog 