Category: Open Source

A few months ago I was chatting to Brad Clow about the new Ehcache Server. I asked him for an example with Scala. Anyway he just got back to me with what is the smallest program yet for accessing RESTful Ehcache Server. In a file named ExampleScalaGet.scala: import java.net.URL import scala.io.Source.fromInputStream object ExampleScalaGet extends Application… Continue reading Scala example for accessing Ehcache Server

I thought we saw the end of this nonsense years ago. But no. Exit Reality is Windows only. If you are on a Mac, http://q.exitreality.com/relaunch.html will tell you “Mac users are able to experience full hardware accelerated 3D by running Windows with either: (using OpenGL) or BootCamp (using Direct3D)” In other words, Mac users should… Continue reading Exit Reality is in a Different Reality – Windows Only

Wotif.com are using quite a lot of open source software from Sun. This has been written up in a new Customer Snapshot.

I am getting a but rusty on cvs. I went to run cvs up on a project and got “unknown host error”. A google search did not yield anything useful. Playing around with it, my problem was that the host was not added to ssh’s known hosts. I sshed to the host and accepted it… Continue reading cvs unknown host error

Jonathan Schwartz on open source (Comments from the NetBeans session) We have been held captive by the Java developers. The future is about reaching out to people without deep expertise. The number of people passionate about open source licenses far outweighs those who have actually read them. Everyone is a lawyer now. If I post… Continue reading Jonathan Schwartz on open source

What is Web 3.0 likely to be? (my question) Tim O’Reilly “Meaningless. Most transformative when we stop typing. 411 services Google, gestural interfaces. Each cell phone with an intertial sensor. Instrumentation of people. Insurance based on GPS. Computers learn from us by what we do in our interactions in the daily world.” Tim Bray “Essentially… Continue reading Community One 2007 General Session: Tim O’Reilly, Ian Murdock and others

The last few weeks I have been working on a single sign on/Kerberos project. For anyone for whom either of those term is new, here is some food for thought. Windoze, Linux, Mac OS X (10.4), Firefox, IE, Apache, ssh… has, in the past 10 years been Kerberised. Rather than Microsoft’s Embrace Extend Annihilate being… Continue reading Kerberos is cool

Wotif.com, my employer, went live on Glassfish in mid January. I was the driving force behind the move. You can read about it on the Glassfish site here: http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/how_to_run_a_top . There is a questionnaire linked from the entry that is the raw question and answer source for the entry. You can see it here: http://blogs.sun.com/stories/resource/wotif/wotif_responses.html… Continue reading Wotif.com live on Glassfish

Luke Welling of Hitwise showed up some trends using the Hitwise database. It is mostly site visits. Interesting to compare this with Google Trends and Tiobe. Mailing lists seem to be getting replaced by feeds. Ubuntu matching Debian in May 06. Redhat is still getting more visits than all of the others combined. PostGres is… Continue reading Online Site Trends

Distributed Stuff One was on distributed caching and file systems. We talked about memcached, ehcache and a new file system from Live Journal – Mogile FS. It is user space, so not really a true file system. It comes with a mod_mogile for Apache. Must take a look at that. It looks like use of… Continue reading Kiwi Foo – First two days