Otto Stone's Weblog

• Desktop Java [doing well]. Thanks for asking.
  "Calling Swing a toy is just not serious"
  (tags: swing swt java)
• GlassFish at ApacheCon US 2006
  Eduardo: "Ken and Jim are travelling to ApacheCon next week" -- I'll be at the booth too.
  (tags: glassfish roller apachecon)
• Planting the Flag in Second Life
  Sun PR: "Check it out... we're the first Fortune 500 company to hold a press conference in virtual world Second Life"
  (tags: secondlife games sun virtualreality)
• One Small Step for the Blogosphere...
  Jonathan Schwartz: "Usage of this or [any other] company blog or web site should be considered sufficient in satisfying the objectives of [Reg FD]"
  (tags: sun blogging businessblogging)
• Revise the RSS 2.0 Specification
  Rogers Cadenhead: "I propose that the RSS Advisory Board adopt the following document as
  (tags: rss feeds blogging)
• URI Templates
  Interesting new piece in the REST-based web services puzzle
  (tags: rest uri webservices webdev)

• Backing up your Roller blog resources
  Rich Burrage blogs some Python code to backup Roller blog resources via Python and HTML scrape
  (tags: roller)

• HTTP GET via JSF
  You'd think GET would be the easy one. That's not the case with JSF.
  (tags: rest http webdev jsf java)
• Bookmarkable page with JSF (not)
  "Honestly, no one knows how to get around this limitation?"
  (tags: rest http webdev jsf java)
• MyFaces team discusses RESTful JSF
  Discussion doesn't seem to go anywhere
  (tags: rest http webdev jsf java)

• Air tour of Cape Fear beach towns
  By Doc Searles and cousin Mark Crissman
  (tags: northcarolina aerial photos beach)
• Moving Toward Atom
  The Intelligence Community Metadata Working Group recommends Atom over RSS
  (tags: feeds rss atom)
• Why is Nuxeo switching from Zope [to Java] for its new developments?
  "we found that innovations brought by Java 5 (SE and EE) to the language provided a lot of value and flexibility for developers" -- and they picked the Apache MyFaces JSF impl.
  (tags: python java opensource)
• Click Fraud: The dark side of online advertising
  "Some people who have worked in the industry say that as long as Google and Yahoo distribute ads to nearly anyone with a rudimentary Web site, fraud will continue."
  (tags: advertising adsense)

• Suk 11 Hostel
  Dan says this is a nice place to stay in Bangkok
  (tags: thailand travel)

• Visual walk through of Vim 7.0
  Spell checker, code completion (but not for Java), tabs and heavy-duty undo
  (tags: vim development software)
• vimannounce : Message: Vim 7!
  Vim 7 has been out since May 2006
  (tags: software development vim)
• "Inspired by the lack of support in Java for IRIs"
  James Snell is working on a "lightweight-yet-conformant IRI implementation in Java"
  (tags: webdev development webservices)

• Headius: JRuby Steps Into the Sun
  "It's going to be a big news day for JRuby :)" ... finally!
  (tags: ruby java sun)
• The Doc Searls Weblog : Thursday, September 7, 2006
  "Must all our social networks be hosted by silos like FaceBook?"
  (tags: web2.0 socialsoftware)
• Facebook users prove they're idiots
  "I've always had a strong dislike for those social networking sites like myspace.com and facebook.com."
  (tags: web2.0 socialsoftware)

RSS doesn't say whether or not it's allowed, so 50% of folks get it wrong.

• Grammar blog
  "Longtime NandO journalists Pam Nelson and Will Sutton dish on language use and misuse"
• NandO blogs
  The Raleigh News and Observer's blog is surprisingly good
• Atom branding problem
  "RSS is not a helpful term to describe feeds" - and this is Atom's problem?
• RSS via email
  With RMail you can subscribe to any RSS feed via email

Words: David Connell, Mike Connell, and Doug MacMillan
Music: David Connell and Mike Connell

Standing back before the angels get to me,
Well it seems such a sorry waste of time.
Holding back on these who want the best for me.
I guess I can't be blamed for trying.

It's really very funny how it wears me down,
Waiting for that something.

Hey you, well I'm sorry but it's time to let you know.
Hey you, and it's sounds a bit like preaching.
I'd bend over backwards to let you know.

Rolling back around the numbers on the wall,
Well it's sad 'cause I don't have much to show.
Standing back before the angels get to me,
Well it seems the better way to go

By The Connells

Words and Music: Mike Connell

I was running Mary.
And the days were growing long.
And I was minding mine,
I was doing nothing wrong.

And the news you sent me.
And the bar's upon the door.
And this one caught me blind --
Couldn't stop me anymore.

Tell me how much do I forgive
'Cause you laid one in on me, but I'm all right.
Tell me how much -- this goes on and on.

I was running barely
And it's hard to face me more.
And I was minding mine,
And doing nothing more

By The Connells