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  • BEA Offline

    JD points out that BEA is going to be coming out with an offline J2EE server that integrates with there stuff. Looks like the SOA space is heating up...

  • Longhorn Installation Guide

    Installed Longhorn under Virtual PC 2004 last night. Despite what some people might have you believe, it works like a charm. However, you do have to configure it properly (and I don't have it installed on a powerhouse desktop, just a 1.4 ghz notebook with a little over 700 mb ram).

  • Extending Amazon

    Now that Amazon has full text search, what would really be nice is full-cross referecing of books. So that I can see, “What do other authors have to say about this book?” or “Who is putting this book in their bibliography?” Wouldn't it be great to look up a page in your favorite book and see a list of the authors who agreed / disagreed with what it was saying? Now that would be a killer app.

  • Joel on UNIX

    “The very fact that the Unix world is so full of self-righteous cultural superiority, "advocacy," and slashdot-karma-whoring sectarianism while the Windows world is more practical ("yeah, whatever, I just need to make a living here") stems from a culture that feels itself under siege, unable to break out of the server closet and hobbyist market and onto the mainstream desktop.” [1]

  • Building Bridges

    “You're a consultant. Your job is to help organizations build bridges. You have a new client who brings you a proposal that looks like this: